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Henry120:
The video was provided by DHQ.

Where and when?

It was not. It came from an unknown person, who is the same person that edited it,

Henry120:
I shared the entire video documentary in these pages when it was released.

What documentary?

Henry120:
Yes, it was necessary. Most parts of the documentary were boring, only the interesting parts of the video were taken. The NAF roundel edited in was simply to show it indeed is an NAF video.

The digital text on the left of the screen has nothing to do with the entertainment value of the clip. That information was cut out because it would have revealed that this was not a drone hit. Also, the NAF colours and white text were edited in after the fact to try and convince people that this is a drone hit. Why would the NAF put its colours on a video like this?

Fake clip.

Henry120:
China also exported major arms to 18 African states. Examples of China’s increasing global presence as an arms supplier in 2010–14 included deals with Venezuela for armoured vehicles and transport and trainer aircraft, with Algeria for three frigates, with Indonesia for the supply of hundreds of anti-ship missiles and with Nigeria for the supply of a number of unmanned combat aerial vehicles, according to SIPRI.
http://defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38412:african-arms-imports-increased-45-per-cent-over-last-decade-sipri&catid=7:Industry&Itemid=116
We can now put to rest this issue.
Yes, it was a PGM from a drone.

The video itself is not authentic. It's fake. Nowhere has a credible background to the video been provided. Let alone a credible source.

And why has the digital text on the left of the screen been cut out and the colours of the NAF inexplicably edited in? Why was all that necessary?

patches689:
No he is close friends with someone pretending to be the Colonel

In fact that closeness could very well be fiction.

What on earth could one expect from a blogger?

stillchris:
a very intelligent and insightful reaponse. welldone

Does not change the fact that your statement is made up. You have ZERO way of knowing that there is only a handful South Africans. Zero.

Your reductionist argument is founded on a thumb-suck.

saengine:
Record video of vehicle being destroyed by 3rd party, and call it a "drone stroke". Only in Nigeria


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7424/15842545623_6a527bd4aa_o.gif

LOL funny thing is there's no credible record or source of this.


And another thing is why on earth would the edits on this video be there (the printed text) other than to try and make it look like what it is not?

stillchris:
SA ones are just a handfull of them.

A completely made-up statement. A thumb-suck.

rka1:
As already explained to you, the COAS has spoken. It doesn't matter what articles you post.
"Officials" are playing politics. They are not in the front lines nor do they understand what is going on. They are politicians if not made up people by mischief makers.

As pointed to you, officials have already spoken. It doesn't matter what blogs you post.

Goodluck Jonathan is only playing politics. He is not in the front lines, nor does he understand what is going on. He is a politician and his statements are made up by the mischief makers at Aso Rock.

Oh - senior military officials ARE on the frontlines.

And about the pictures...Reva IIIs.... #nuffsed.

rka1:
What officials, what sources?

You read the article.

rka1:
There is an election coming up you mumu.

Exactly! Which is why Goodluck's statements have no value.

rka1:
being misled

That would be you, based on the above.

rka1:
How is a blog different from mischief making NY times the other side of the pond? Go and read it and understand there are not 100s of
SAs in theatre. My goodness you are gullible.
BTW, he is more authoritative with better contacts than all the foreign media and their cohorts combined.

The New York Times is similar to "wordpress"? Please tell us how?

Whenever you are ready.

Again,

:Hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and other countries are playing a decisive role in Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram, operating attack helicopters and armored personnel carriers and fighting to retake towns and villages captured by the Islamist militant group, according to senior officials in the region.

The Nigerian government has not acknowledged the presence of the mercenaries, but a senior government official in northern Nigeria said the South Africans — camped out in a remote portion of the airport in Maiduguri, the city at the heart of Boko Haram’s uprising — conducted most of their operations at night because “they really don’t want to let people know what is going on.”


The mercenaries “are in the vanguard in the liberation of some of the communities,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

rka1:
Why don't you read about the reality on the ground.
https://beegeagle./2015/03/18/boko-haram-and-mercenaries-in-borno-the-myth-the-reality-hearing-it-from-a-pmc-operative/#comment-86734

Wordpress? A blog? Please miss me with your blogs, fam.

Here's something "from the people on the ground"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/world/africa/nigerias-fight-against-boko-haram-gets-help-from-south-african-mercenaries.html?_r=0

Hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and other countries are playing a decisive role in Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram, operating attack helicopters and armored personnel carriers and fighting to retake towns and villages captured by the Islamist militant group, according to senior officials in the region.

The Nigerian government has not acknowledged the presence of the mercenaries, but a senior government official in northern Nigeria said the South Africans — camped out in a remote portion of the airport in Maiduguri, the city at the heart of Boko Haram’s uprising — conducted most of their operations at night because “they really don’t want to let people know what is going on.”


The mercenaries “are in the vanguard in the liberation of some of the communities,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

rka1:
You know where you can shove your links.
You are so blinded that you think 100 SA mercs can play a significant role in clearing about 40 towns/local government areas?
You are indeed deluded. You haven't even given credit to the other supposed mercs from other countries.
Even in make believe world you are glory hunting

You are the one who spoke about people "on the ground". Therefore, it follows that the following should be pointed out to you:

"The people on the ground - officials at that - confirm that South African mercenaries are in the think of things in Nigeria; and they have been quite effective"

Naturally, you won't NEED the links because you've seen them already. They have been posted a hundred times over on the thread.

Facts are facts.

Your mechanics story does not come from "people on the ground". It comes from the administration of one Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

You hung yourself today. Be angry with yourself.

Msauza:
DENEL=SA GOVERNMENT=SANDF. During the bush war SADF never bought any weapons from KENTRON now DENEL. They were supplied with weapons free of charge, so, whatever that is in DENEL inventory belong to SANDF and the people of SA. Now at peace times SANDF is required to buy only for formality at a reduced price so that DENEL remains sustainable in doing business.
However, during war we will unpack whatever that DENEL has in the interest of protecting South Africa and all the private defence industries we have will have to make their contribution to ensure that their businesses will be safe guarded. Have you ever asked yourself why SANDF is training with DENEL weapons irrespective of whether it is in service or not. DENEL DEVELOP WEAPONS PRIMARILY FOR SANDF.

Anyway, all of Denel's profits go to its shareholder, the government. And all of SANDF's budget comes from the government.

asuoka:
Ek smeek jou in die naam van Jesus hoef haal my weer
or

i ngininxuse egameni likaJesu dont ukucaphuna me aphinde

please

You can't dictate to people who they can or cannot quote. This is a thread.

rka1:
No, the COAS and others on the ground who understand what is happening and not sensationalists.

First - They "understand" what is happening because Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said so.

Second - you are not "on the ground".

Third - reports from officials "on the ground" confirm that the South Africans are fighting; and that their role has been significant. Just ask and we will give you the links....again.

rka1:
Yes, contractors for newly delivered equipment from Russia, South Africa, Ukraine, Belarus etc. to train on the job and as advisers, not fighters. Doesn't mean they can't be armed for self defence.

You know this because Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said so.

Right. Next.

patches689:
Those same internet based virtual reality soldiers are now training your combat veteran soldiers and capturing towns for you
See: Training > experience

Studying during the exam never produced any A students.

agaugust:
You need to first close down the offices of BBC, VOA, AFP, REUTERS, News24, CNN, Al Jazeera, New York Times newspapers and all other war media that have ever published an incomplete or inaccurate war situation report that was later found inaccurate, then I can also be blamed.

Until you achieve that, I owe nobody any apology. Get that straight into your thick skullz
.

How does this piece of comical defiance change the fact that you personally confirmed that the Reva IIIs in the picture are NOT Nigeian?

How does it change the fact that they are in Maiguduri?

The fact that your president says foreign contractors are training your people on new equipment is changed how.

South Africa's synonimity with the MRAP is changed by your comical piece of defiance...how?

agaugust:
Long story with no sense in it.
The Equatorial Guinea Vs Maiduguri location/street REVA MRAP story came backstage from an online source and was circulated in Nigeria.
You cannot blame anybody for anything, war reports are hard to confirm unless you are a top military commander directly reporting from the field. I owe nobody any fvcking apology, Nigerian army never gave public information on it's versions of REVA MRAPs, we are the ones working so hard to fish out Nigerian weapons and identify their specifications from half complete photos, how is that easy? Can you do better?
Yourself can you tell us the difference between REVA Mk III and MK V ? Tell us now !
War reports gets cleared better after days have passed. BBC said 2,000 people died in Baga, a whole BBC relied on a Facebook source because Nigerian military did not comment in the matter for many days before pegging Baga casualty at 150 dead.
Have you written letter to BBC about their 2,000 casualty story and ask BBC editor in chief to keel down and bow to one gay Southie named Saengine?
You must be hurting badly by now, because the only confirmed South African ex-soldier in Nigeria is a casual labor mechanic who found a better life in Nigeria after South Africa wasted his time and career, we save your unemployed people from financial mess
.

Bwahahaha - so in short (now that you've been exposed), you're crying because youve been screaming long and hard and contradicting yourself.

Now you confirm that you can't be taken seriously because you scream long and hard based on incomplete stories and photos.

What a sad little person.

agaugust:
I proved Equitorial Guinea bought REVA MK III with clear source posted by me.
First REVA MRAP seen in Nigeria was MK V
No official publication has ever said Nigeria bought any type of REVA MRAP, we only got photo of one REVA ambulance MK V being transported by road.
Nobody knows all details of Nigerian equipment until we see some of them because of government secrecy policy of Nigerian military.
So how is that our fault? Am I Nigerian army chief of staff with full list of all new weapons/equipment purchased yesterday?
By the way, can you identify the difference between REVA MK III and MK V ?
BTWN Nigeria owns all the REVA MRAPs in the Maiduguri road photos, and the PMC guys are NOT South Africans until you show us their names and nationalities with infallible PROOF !
I do agree we turned some SADF ex-troops into casual labour mechanics, it's not our own apartheid version, it's just that Nigeria is powerful enough to make a white South African wash our toilets if we want it
.

But the IIIs in the picture are rolling down Maiguduri.

But the IIIs in the picture - that are rolling down Maiguduri do not belong to Nigeria.

But EG is not in Maiguduri.

Therefore...


...Mercenaries.

agaugust:
By the way, can you identify the difference between REVA MK III and MK V ?

The same way you did it when the picture was first posted.

agaugust:
BTWN Nigeria owns all the REVA MRAPs in the Maiduguri road photos,
.

Bwahaha - your own post below.

agaugust:
The proof is already clear, it is REVA MK III MRAP that does NOT exist in Nigeria
.

saengine:
Yeah. SANDF is going to suddenly give up on projects like Badger and A Darter after already paying billions to Denel. Aha...makes sense. I agree with you.

You sound like you want to cry. I wonder if you'll still be on this forum when serial production starts this year. Will be interesting to see how you defend yourself.

It is in fact Nigeria that cannot afford much. Like @Msauza and I were discussing earlier, the current purchases are forced and haphazard. They aren't really in line with a planned budget. Hence the pain below. Nigeria is simply studying during the exam right now because the neglected their studies all semester.

http://www.ventures-africa.com/2015/03/nigeria-orders-30-salary-cut-for-government-officials/

VENTURES AFRICA – Pressed by oil price fall in the last year, Nigeria has sought out extensive austerity measures to curb the adverse effects of lower oil revenues in the coming years by hiking taxes and cutting spend. The latest of these austerity moves, however, is targeted at slashing the spend of the ruling elite, as President Goodluck Jonathan orders a 30 percent cut to government officials’ welfare packages.

The cut will affect the President himself, his ministerial appointees, and head of government agencies and parastatals. “Political office holders’ salaries are being cut by between 20-30 per cent, ranging from permanent secretaries, directors’ general and so on all the way to ministers,” said Dr. Bright Okogu, who spoke to The Guardian newspaper over the weekend. “This, however, does not amount to very much, but the purpose is to show the commitment of this administration that if they want to make adjustment, they want to do it and lead by.”

The successful implementation, however, might be stalled by ‘due process’. “there is a new twist over the pay cut initiative by the President yesterday as a dependable source at the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC) told The Guardian that the President lacks the power to implement a pay cut unilaterally without the Commission’s approval,” read The Guardian report.

Former Nigerian president, the late Umaru Musa Y’Ardua, had previously attempted to ply such route in the face of a similar oil crisis just after assuming leadership in 2007. His strides were delayed by bureaucratic protocols, and eventually never materialised.

Nigeria’s fate as an economic table-topper had been put in jeopardy over the last year as its cash cow, oil, has lost more than 50 percent in price value, falling to an all-time low of $43 per barrel in January, 2015. Though it has longed picked up momentum to stabilize around $55 a barrel in recent weeks. This has put a strain on the country’s revenue inflow, forcing the government to twice review its budget benchmark, which is hinged on the global price of oil, downwards.

Its Finance Ministry, headed by renowned economist, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had hinted in February that Nigerians may be required to pay more in taxes, as effect of oil price fall hit hard. Odilim Enweagabra, a Nigerian development economist and social commentator, has even canvassed the need to return to the era of tolled highways in a bid to soften the burden on the government.

Locals though will feel much more willing to accept a tougher policies going forward should they perceive the government as willing to share in a similar plight.

saengine:
You are the very same person who said REVA III was bought buy Equitorial Gunea when i posted those pics with white men at the gun turret. You even posted in big bold letters!! Did you think we would suddenly forget? Are you mentally stable?
Now you want to pretend as if you knew all along that Nigeria had REVA III, when you have already claimed they do not exist in Nigeria.
So admit your mistake f00l. Bow down and apologise.

He should bury his head in shame. It was not even a lot of work digging up his posts.

asadike:
dis language is too strong. Have you forgotten that u are an ambassador of christ?

Bwahahaha - "ambassador of Christ".


Hey why don't you go and donate towards Pastor Dollar's jet and quit preaching here?

Msauza:
NIGERIAS REVAIII

They only bought the V Msauza. III - no.

agaugust:
Belongs to who, Lesotho or Bostwana ?
.

Your post below.

The III DOES NOT belong to Nigeria.

The III does not EXIST in Nigeria.

Therefore the IIIs being driven by the white men are not Nigeria's.

Even your trusty Beegeagle agrees.

agaugust:
The proof is already clear, it is REVA MK III MRAP that does NOT exist in Nigeria
.

agaugust:
So what? Nigeria keeps buying new weapons every day and has NOT made any public official list, we only know what we see by photos.

Now show me PROOF of South African mercenary owning REVA MRAPs....you lost the argument....you liar
.

But the III you NEVER bought.

That's the point.

Now, if you never bought it, the IIIs in the picture are NOT YOURS.

agaugust:
The proof is already clear, it is REVA MK III MRAP that does NOT exist in Nigeria
.

agaugust:
Nigeria owned the same REVA MRAPs that your phantom mercenaries drove in Maiduguri, and both Nigerian army was in that same column with the PMC guys.....same type of REVA MRAP....Mumu

.

Reva III?

Hahahaha!

stillchris:
no need to waste your smelly breath.

Nigeria acquired Reva MK 5 MRAPs. not MK III.

stop trolling

what a joke! You NEVER EVER bought the Reva III.

asuoka:
BEEGAGLE’S BLOG
7 March, 2015

This weekend, Nigerian opposition knuckleheads, ever so eager to discredit, floated photographs of what were supposedly South African mercenaries riding in REVA MRAPs.

While the controversy raged on in Nigerian cyberspace, a respected aficionado of South African extraction went to town on his own volition and after exhaustive enquiries, wrote to confirm the fact that the contentious photograph was photoshopped. The photos were certainly not shot in Nigeria.

So take those photographs circulating in cyberspace to be another bad example of how far the desperadoes in Nigeria’s political opposition will go to discredit the military and the FG which controls it. They should be ashamed of themselves.

READ these excerpts

Beegs

Just saw the Linda Ikeji post and the ensuing discussion on your site. For what it’s worth, those pics were taken in Guinea Equatorial:

1) The rear view of Vehicle 2C shows an EG flag and the signpost is in Spanish;

2) The Oando reference of your correspondents doesn’t hold up – the company operates throughout West Africa; and

3) More important, that’s the MKIII version, which EG acquired in 2013. As for Nigeria, they operate the latest MK V version of which you posted an ambulance variant the other day

END

I am also pleased to inform you, gentlemen, that pursuant to the unprecedented build-up of assets which the Nigerian Army are undergoing, we are now operators of the latest REVA Mk.5 MRAPs and battlefield ambulances. In the days ahead, we shall begin to see them in the field.


please lets not post anything that will spoil the image of our galant soldiers...i bet if the south african military can fight the war we have fought in this life..

oga henry120 am i lying?

agaugust:
When did Nigeria buy this REVA MRAP ?
.

Reva IIs. Not III.

You bought Reva IIs.

agaugust:
Citation needed.

Also, could you show us photo of South African mercenaries in Iraq driving REVA MRAPs?
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I asked a question - when did Nigeria purchase Reva IIIs?

The answer to that question is: "never".

It then follows - the Reva IIIs do not belong to Nigeria.

No citation needed for something that Nigeria never did. You never bought Reva IIIs.

agaugust:
Only SA drives REVA MRAP?

Could you show us photo of South African mercenaries in Iraq driving REVA MRAPs?

There are many REVA MRAP users around the world, see one below, security forces of Yemen.

Nigeria has South African ex-soldiers turned into casual mechanics and electricians, that's the only job we use your white-heads to do
.

When did Nigerian purchase Reva IIIs?

Never.

Therefore, those Reva IIIs are not Nigeria's.

iterator24:
all south africans [50 million] may not live beyond 2018

Again, HIV/AIDS kills more Nigerians than anyone else in the world. Not "may". Not "might". KILLS.

Msauza:
Their military budget is not even what it appears to be, It is made to be like that because they are currently in war. The military budget of SA during the bush war was way over $10 billion.

"Budget" implies planned procurement. Their procurement is not planned. It is forced and panicked.

iterator24:
you're still alive? i thought HIV has quenched your soul...

I have a life.

And HIV/AIDS kills more Nigerians than anyone else in the world.