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At least 83 Nigerian soldiers, including a commanding officer, are still missing days after they came under a Boko Haram attack, PREMIUM TIMES can report.

Top level military sources monitoring the development told this newspaper that the soldiers were still missing in action as of Friday morning, four days after the attack.
The Army confirmed the attack in a statement on Tuesday, but has not given further updates. It did not also admit 83 soldiers were missing.

The latest update from several military personnel, follows our earlier report on how Nigerian troops drowned in a river as they scampered for safety in the face of a superior firepower from the terrorists.
While about 22 of the fleeing soldiers were later rescued by their Nigerien counterparts and dispatched to a hospital in Diffa, southern Niger, several others were fatally wounded after Boko Haram opened fire on them when they jumped into the River Yobe.

The Army leadership has established contact with the 22 soldiers —including two that sustained serious gunshot wounds— recuperating in the Niger hospital, PREMIUM TIMES understands.
The missing Commanding Officer of 223 Tank Battalion in Gashigar, was identified as K. Yusuf, a lieutenant colonel.
Military sources said the troops could not withstand Boko Haram because they had only two light armour tanks to work with.


Even the two tanks were withdrawn from the battlefront in Damasak to Gashigar, leaving soldiers in Damasak and other small units nearby with no tank.
“May God touch the heart of our dear president to equip the Army,” the source said. “How have we offended him that has made him not to equip us as promised?” one source said. “May God touch his heart to forgive. Our men are dying daily here.”
Besides the poor equipment, the renewed show of strength by Boko Haram has frightened many, coming after months of relative success by Nigerian troops.

Since the beginning of this year, the Army had maintained that troops were clearing the sect’s remnants across the troubled Northeast as a precursor to a new phase of winding down combat operations.
The Buhari administration claimed credits for the “improved morale” of the troops which had made it possible for previously displaced residents to return to their communities and commence rebuilding efforts.
Corruption returns

But high-ranking sources on the ground told PREMIUM TIMES the latest setback was because poor morale had returned to the battlefield.
“On the day they were dislodged, troop’s morale was at the lowest ebb and troops were not ready to face the terrorists,” security sources said.
The sources said the soldiers have had to endure months of unpaid salaries and their allowances also being held by their superiors.
All military sources who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES asked that their identities be protected because of the sensitivity of the issue.
This turn of event had compelled some commanders on the battlefield to go out of their way in search of financial support to keep their men fed — albeit poorly.
“The cause of the low morale was due to their being fed once a day and the insensitivity of the authorities to pay them their allowances,” the source said. “Only part payment of their allowance for August has been paid to date.”
“The commanders on the ground go out of their ways to incur debt in order to feed their troops.
“The ration cash allowance meant for feeding was last paid for the month of August. So the Commanding Officers on the ground are the worst hit,” the sources said.


The sources blamed alleged greed of a few brigade commanders for the situation the troops now find themselves.
“Some brigade commanders reduce the official feeding ration of N500 per day to a meagre N300 just to make money. Our findings reveal that most locations outside Maiduguri only feed their troops once a day with mostly beans,” the sources said.
The sources said this “insatiable craze for quick money” bears a stark similarity with what obtained under the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
“The last administration doled out a lot of money to the theatre of operations which was mismanaged,” the source said.
Other sources said the current pain is part of the consequences of a new distribution policy put in place by the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, who came in a little over a year ago.
“The present Chief of Army Staff, in his good effort to minimise waste, decided to check these excesses by reducing maintenance allowance for the various units by half.
“So the commands are not too happy with the development and have resorted to looking into troops feeding money,” one source said.
They, nonetheless, described the policy as “a patriotic one” which was put in place to check the commanders’ use of allowances by “to settle political godfathers and patronise women”.
Army spokesman, Sani Usman, did not respond to PREMIUM TIMES’ requests for comments.
Nigerian troops are fighting alongside their counterparts from Cameroon and the Republic of Niger.


Monday’s development marked the first time in more than two years that Nigerian troops would come under superior firepower that required foreign military personnel to come to their rescue.
A similar incident last occurred in August 2014 when about 480 troops crossed the border into Cameroon while fleeing Boko Haram.

The insurgency, which began in 2009, has left approximately 20,000 people dead and displacement of millions.
Boko Haram leaders recently engaged in negotiation with the Nigerian government which led to last week’s release of 21 of the over 200 girls kidnapped from Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014

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[quote author=sekundosekundo post=50383130][/quote]Seriously I ve never thought about this line

fitzmayowa:
GEJ has been silent on any issue that concerns the country, I guess that's his own way of avoiding any attention...

Even when PEJ is been dragged here and there by EFCC he has remained silent...

We can't deny his reaction to the some of the issues you listed will provoked other serious reactions
Don't you think you it's rather wisdom than avoiding attention

Mynd44:
Possibly
Regret, ego and ultimately, shame

But then his government almost officially never believed the Chibok girls were real anyway

Could it be he has more information than you and I. Maybe reserving his comment to preserve the peace and unity of Nigeria.

Maybe you need to slow down attaching on negative things to GEJ.

However we look at at him, he is still a great guy

This Twit below raised my curiosity on subject issue.

I ve followed GEJ on twitter since his exit as a president. I can authoritatively say he comments on few national issues, but he has never failed short of sending out congratulatory messages, felicitations.

Since the return of 21 Chibok girls no comment has come from his office, neither any direct comment at any of recent events he has attended .

Could there be more to this

#JustThinking

I saw these pictures on Twitter, tittled "Two kinds of people"

I think they do have touching lessons of life.


Why not, if I share them with you

Confusion

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femarse:
you said 295k?
the last transaction shows withdrawal of close to 800k and thats from oct 12 dont you see that ?

We are having a conversation, I raised some vital question which I expected your response on.

Please let me have your opinion on them

Do whatever you want.

Hope polytechnics will run programmes like diploma in law.

Okay

When some group of people called Nigeria a zoo in the past, I used to engage them in a media fight.

After a while I started to analyse this name.
Zoo is a place where animals are kept and animals acts disorderly.

With the occurrences in Nigeria polity, I can't fight anymore.

Government just does things anyhow, with disregard for due process.

Wike is even more sane than people now.

F so bad

Okay

TGM2015:
Why reactivating old accounts and not providing necessary evidence to 'unfreeze' your other account? Why not withdraw last month when you reactive but need to travel to Ekiti for withdrawal?
Thank God for enforcement of BVN for all financial transactions.

You were in so much hurry not see that it was the period when her husband is in custody.
She is also aware that other accounts were frozen for investigative reasons.

Anymore question?

[quote author=femarse post=50312407][/quote]Thanks for the response.
Our conversations will be much easier knowing you are a banker because I am also one.

I will like us to stick to the facts available without making assumptions that we do not have which is already surfacing in your response. Such is the theory of why FFK wife went to ADO Ekiti. I will also revisit your theory when am done with the real issues at stake.

Back to business,

As a banker, don't you think it's wrong to conclude that the sole reason why an account could be placed on PND is only on suspicion of fraud.

As a banker, you will also agree that you only declare a customer arrest on the basis of confirmed suspicion where all effort to reach and get the customer had proven abortive. Note that suspicion does not prove anyone guilty.

EFCC in their statement clearly stated the account had a link to FFK, understably they know the account belongs his wife, I didn't see anything in their statement which suggests that she has been invited for questioning prior to this incident, which she defaulted. There is also no record that the EFCC had made attempt to arrest her in the past which failed, Your position supports the position of treating her like a wanted criminal and and am trying to understand the basis.

Have you seen subsequent reports on this same issue which countered EFCC claim.

Without taking side with either of the parties, dont you think there is a serious problem and concern with the manner EFCC and Dss go about their businesses in this country.

Back to your assumptions, the account balance is 295k. That's not too much money to warrant going all the way to ADO Ekiti to draw. I doubt if Ffk is so broke should he be, don't you think it's an amount small enough for someone like Fayose to give her. Assuming the amount at stake here is 10m and above, I may have differed but don't you think your assumptions may be wrong.

fiizznation:
This clowns keep contradicting themselves. That loudmouth said the account has never had anything less than 500,000 naira in it. And all of a sudden, the clownish SA is saying another different thing.

But what I even find more disgusting in all this debacle between the loudmouth and EFCC is the innocent infant they are trying to bring into their mess. Why involved this innocent infant in your sorry situation with EFCC? This is pure evil.

The FFK guy don't have to involve this innocent infant in his corruption charges with EFCC. Just because you want to score cheap political point, you told your bleached up girlfriend to use the infant as a shield in case EFCC comes for her in ekiti state

I just spotted another Nairaland that needs reset.

What's the co-relation btw what you ve written and the subject.

APC GOVERNMENT AND HARDSHIP HAS TAKING ALOT FROM UR BRAIN

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