SternProphet: This is stupid suggestion. Eeben cannot stop Boko Haram and he himself has said so. You need to think hard about issues before making childish suggestions. First of all, there are solutions that are worse than the problem - nobody can pay someone to sleep with his wife for instance. You can, i suppose from this stupid idea you are espousing. Some of upu guys have been brought up with trader mentality, you think money buys everything. That is dumb and believe me it's a serious limitation on your life.
Eeben cannot stop ISWAP/Boko Haram. He himself is above 60 and has been realistic and honest about what his PMC does. He is not as duncey has some of you posting without thinking. He has mostly suggested TRAINING contracts with MOD. Since then our Army, Navy and Air force personnel have gotten cheaper more effective training from US, UK, Germany, Russia and Pakistan. There is nothing Eeben Barlow will bring. What we need is discipline and professionalism in the field at FOBs. We need skilled majors, colonels and Brigadiers who are aware of their environment and can call on resources when they know ISWAP is planning something. Boko Haram/ISWAP motivation is ideological, religious, tenacious. Only Nigerians will fight them, expel them from Nigeria and do so for the 50 years or more that we require to prevent them coming up again.
By then, Eeben Barlow would have died and his company maybe liquidated then. It is a threat that will last decades. In case you are so ignorant that You think it will end with weapins and tactics alone. IT WON'T. ISIS is not dead. They moved from Syria to Afghanistan and Libya and they are coming south to Nigeria.
You don't fight a battle or two battles and say you have lost the war and start begging some old S.African to help you OR you win some battles and relax like the stupid Buratai and his team did.
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What has paying a man to sleep with your wife context got to do with fighting and defeating insurgency once and for all in the NE? Its very dvmb of u to try to make comparisms in situations that don't rhyme together. Am starting to think you're a bokoharam sympathiser who feels comfortable with the status quo and doesn't want progress in this counter insurgency war. You should learn to be mute and let people who sincerely care about the sorry situation in the NE drop their 2cents. Goodbye!
doziex: Gentle men, I have led this argument for PMCs as military advisers for about a decade now. If you are not at the war front in the north east as we speak, you can save the insults. I see iswap' assault on northern Nigeria, the same vein as ISIS assault on the Iraqi and Syrian armies.
Both armies are better than NA, were nearly overrun but for the infusion of mercenaries and military advisors with NATO then eventually Russian air forces in tow.
US green berets and Iranian quds force and eventually Russian spetznaz.
So since nigeria is not as important to the powers that be as Iraq, us and U.K. May do training,but nothing more. They would Not even approach what the French routinely does for her west African allies.
This were a reputable PMC comes into play as embedded advisors. To properly deploy and utilize the tools that we have in the most effective way.
This could be STTEP or Eric prince blackwater
NA would benefit greatly from training and advice in the field
I see someone who has solutions. This is what am saying...our military top brass has failed. We can keep on budgeting huge sums for more Sophisticated arms and platforms but does it change the outcome in the battlefield? We need help from outsources. Let's leave pride and do the right thing.
SternProphet: You be warned. If your locally bred and educated mind cannot proffer better solutions than paying 500 mercenaries $10m a month to chase 10,000 zealots who are in it for life then you SHUT UP.
The brain is a free resource. We need to use it.
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You're very foolish. So far I've seen the solutions you've been proffering wit that empty head of urs. If my opinion causes u severe heartburns then you can kill urslf. And don't quote me again u simpleton.
persius555: Once more, this government condemned the last one for making use of PMCs. They would have to swallow their pride and make this move. Honestly, i dont see this happening, rather the status quo would be maintained. This is why we should aqcuire these platforms in large numbers rather than in small piece meal. 20 of the MI-35M wont hurt our economy.
Good luck to our servicemen on the war front.
But unfortunately our available platforms keep falling into bokoharam hands. It's either that or other avoidable disasters like the NAF heli recently. So what's the way forward with all these disasters?
ugo4u: Hiring mercenary is very expensive and a short term measure we have to think and plan for long term.
I don't think it would cost $1bn to hire mercenaries who can get the job done. While planning long-term as you rightly put it, we need a solution that works and we need it right now.
ugo4u: We really need to invest in training of our soldiers members of SBS, AFSF, 72MSF etc don't have two heads, it is just like Abba Kyari that is almost seen as a demi-cop, believe you me the police force have very intelligent officers that can do the same or even better than Kyari the difference is just that the police gives Kyari and his team the latest equipment/gadget to their job. We should invest in quality training, I still believe we have the resources to 'mass produce" quality personnel with the right equipment we just have to flip the books right from NDA and Depot because even if you give ill-trained soldiers AK-1000 it will still fall into the hands of BHT. A weapon is as good as its handler.
Dude the money spent in fighting this war for almost a decade now without any meaningful progress only goes to show that the NA is incompetent and needs total overhauling. From the onset all we've ever heard has been lack of weapons and yet army bases keep getting sacked and weapons get looted by insurgents. Makes one wonder if it's the lack of adequate sophisticated weapons or lack of combat training and bravery that's causing us this war. I really suggest the government leverages on it's ego and do what the past government did when it was losing territory by contracting foreign mercenaries. The South African STTEP run by Eeben Barlow saw the Nigerian Army regaining it's lost territory and personnel morale got boosted. It's either that or nothing because we can't keep on running in circles. The last $1bn was released to the army last year for equipment purchases but yet our soldiers got killed like flies and bases got overran. Let's stop wasting our lean resources and actually invest in a solution that works.
ugo4u: I watched an encounter between Nigerian troops and Bokoharam guys uploaded on YouTube, honestly speaking it was quite embarrassing how those guys where practically shooting aimlessly and shouting "e never die, e never die" !! in the video their coordination was zero, compactness zero. if you read the comments some foreign guys where making on that video ehh!!! shame will not allow you mention they're Nigerian soldiers. I'll try and post the link here later
Lol. Old video and yeah the Nigerian army just lacked coordination as seen from their clustering together in the same place while shooting to their wasting bullets with no direct aiming. Really embarrassing
Zombies will argue with you that they are not the same thing. How do you educate these illiterates and slaves who have traded their destiny already and that of their generations for 30k stipends?
Dats gud. This is just to remind d guys that whatever they think they can do, the gals there can do better including puffing fat wraps of weed and spazzing out.
Why don't u jst sell ur rabbits, use d money and buy any dog of ur choice instead of stylishly begging in the name of trade by barter exchange of a dog with rabbits?
cosiocan: What will the True Christ do? Psalm 89:26-27 God said, He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
What will the Antichrist do? Daniel 7:25 KJV And he shall speak great words against the most High. 2 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Revelation 13:6 KJV And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God.
"Roman & Saxon Jesus" = God Is Blasphemy against the God of Isreal.
So u jst discovered or rather it got revealed to u that Jesus christ who died more than 2000+ plus years ago is the antichrist? Your prophet or medium who revealed this info to u must be high off alien crack
Join at ur own risk. If ure jobless better find something else worth doing. The military is overrated and useless under this administration. Don't say u weren't warned.