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Intelligence sources have leaked that the Nigerian government with its Chadian partners have captured a current “Abubakar Shekau,” leader character of the Boko Haram sect.

Our sources did not tell us exactly when he was detained, however he said categorically that “we have Shekau and he is alive.”

The Nigerian army and unusually the president himself this week promised to capture “Shekau” alive before the March 28th elections.

Plans To Get Shekau To Indict Opposition Candidate General Muhammadu Buhari
Disturbingly, an authentic leak has informed us that Shekau is currently being drilled and fed a confession statement to be made when he is recorded on the “battle field” being “captured” and interrogated. The confession is to claim opposition candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari who is expected to sweep the upcoming elections this March, is the sponsor of Boko Haram.

Our sources said that only an inner circle of intelligence chiefs were in on this plan, including the nation’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki. He said a video will soon be released in which Nigerian soldiers appear to be capturing Abubakar Shekau and as he is beaten in the video, he will accuse General Buhari and other top opposition candidates of being behind the sect. Dasuki has been promised to be made the Sultan of Sokoto by president Jonathan as we earlier broke.

Our sources said that this dangerous and desperate plan is to galvanize all fanatic religious support possible for the ruling PDP party. He said that the confession by the Boko Haram terrorist leader double is not expected to lead to an indictment as terrorist words are usually dismissed, but is to be used as widely propagated videos on the internet and via text files, in attempt to scare potential voters for General Buhari.

Shekau is being offered a good deal for implicating General Buhari; he wants quick death; but Nigeria’s president is even offering him that he may be allowed to escape after he safely re-assumes office.

Terrible Dimension But Not Entirely New Concept
The formal libelous accusation of opposition candidate and ‘integrity’ contestant, General Buhari is not new from the ruling camp. Ruling party spokesmen have propagated very serious accusations against his person; which as NewsRescue detailed, he promptly contested in court leading to the ruling PDP spokesmen retracting the claims after the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan personally begged Buhari to settle the libel suit he won against them out of court.

There have also been serious Boko Haram activities including bombings and an attempt on General Buhari’s life which the ruling party has been accused of directly having a hand in.

Multiple Abubakar Shekaus
Investigations by NewsRescue have revealed that the first real person bearing that title has been killed in August of 2013; another double who adopted the role was killed last year. The current double who has been working parallel to the “Shekau” killed at Konduga last year is a close ally of Chad’s president, Idriss Deby, remembered for duping Nigeria with a scam ceasefire. According to intelligence information, the ceasefire was actually brokered between Deby and Shekau, but Shekau could not convince the other majore Ansaru terror leaders also on US terror watch list and who were actually in possession of the abducted Chibok goirls, to agree to the scrumptious deal and payment.

Since the election 6-week war began Boko Haram terrorists have been telling us that their “contract” is over and they are returning to their home countries. Who signed this contract is yet to be established, however after Stephen Davis implicated the Nigerian government through its chief of army, General Azubuike Ihejirika and Borno senator, Ali Modu sheriff in Boko Haram, the tides turned and the sect failed in its chief use for slandering the opposition.

It was barely 10 days after the expose by Davis that the “ceasefire” meeting was held in Ndjamena with implicated senator Modu Sheriff, Nigeria’s president and his Chadian counterpart in attendance.

Shekau Changes from ‘Boko Haram’ To ‘Elections Haram’
A recent “Shekau” video had him sitting unusually in front of a blue background in a studio. Our sources tell us that that video in which he furthered a common agenda the ruling party has, which is to disrupt the elections that do not currently favor the ruling party, was said according to our sources, to have been made in the custody of the Nigerian government with their Chadian partners.

In the new video, Shekau promised that they will rather die than see Nigeria through the March 28th presidential elections. Obeservers quickly noticed and commented that suddenly Shekau changed from Boko Haram to Elections Haram.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfBXdcUy_lI

We have in the past few days reported that the Nigerian army has also according to eye witnesses, been aggressively distributing flyers on behalf of Boko Haram claiming the group members or a faction of them were repentant, this move is designed to gain favor among the indigenes of Nigeria and to allow the terrorists re-assimilate in local communities during the temporary period of deactivation.

gists:
I was moved almost to tears by the statement below. This GEJ government is the worst thing that has ever happened to Nigeria. The same GEJ went on a dancing spree when innocent people were killed in Abuja. GOD willing this government ends on 29 of May regardless of their evil plans.

kay1one2:
We are still waiting for an apology from buhari for at least the inciting comments he made that led to the 2011 post election violence! Stopped reading economist much when I discovered their pro-gay stance!

executioner:
I posted something similar on Facebook. I like the Buhari fellow. But APC is filled up with sickeningly corrupt thieves. Rats. Thieves who teach the devil to steal.
Meanwhile, I don't see Buhari living long enough to better Nigeria.
But till then, it's GEJ or split.

StunningCEO:
If anything, Mr Buhari’s biggest flaw is the opposite of what the PDP alleges. He has never been a forceful character; he can be Reaganesque in his inclination to set the tone and direction of policy but leave the details to others.

Dis is so on point bein compared to 1 of d greatest American Presidents in history. Da pipul's general lives on.

ionsman:
So Apc cant campaign in peace again.
Whenever Wike wants to campaign, all roads leading to the ground will be blocked and he isnt a governor yet.

Apc cant campaign in okrika because of okrika jesus.

The other day a cab man told me one of wike's orderly destroyed his hind windshield because he came close to his convoy. He isnt a governor yet.

The Pdp supporters wont talk about this. The high handedness of wike and okrika jesus in Rivers state is appalling.

Pdp has no monopoly of violence so incase the tables turn around, they wont cry foul.

P.S: Am not saying PDP kidnapped the aide,am just airing my view on subsequent issues.

DesChyko:
Not surprising you missed the headword of my post, resorting to defence instead, typical of the lot. Give me something here and now, I beg of you, not some pre-programmed offence tactics.
The only thing that really troubles me is 'some' Nigerians willingness to plunge us back into darkness. Well, as long as it doesn't affect my daily bread, it's essentially their cup of tea.

DesChyko:
Dude.. What's up with this 'copy and paste' information APC distributed to you fanatics to use in filling up the screens of the likes of me? Come on, you sound intelligent. Give me something substantial from your memory, not something stashed up since time immemorial for 'copy and paste' purposes. You seem to have been looking for an avenue to use Ctrl V on this site? No?

DesChyko:
A bird that flies off the ground and lands on a mound is still on the earth.
I don't do parties, what I do is brains and personality.
Between Buhari and Jonathan, we know who's got the bests of both.
And that man gets my vote.. Intelligence over Brute.. Ph.D over Nothing!

LRNZH:
[b] We are not supposed to be broke to the point of devaluing the Naira immediately oil price went south.
Corruption and not Boko Haram is the problem.
The $1Billion borrowed to fight insecurity is nothing compared to what is being stolen annually in Nigeria. We estimate between 10 and 15 Billion US Dollars is stolen every year in Nigeria public sector.

Take a look at this statistics:

OBJ (2007 Ave.)
Reserves: $53 billion
National Debt: $17Billion (12% of GDP)
Oil Price: $64/barrel

Yar'adua (2009 Ave.)
Reserves: $42 billion
National Debt: $21Billion (11.6% of GDP)
Oil Price: $53/barrel

GEJ (2014 Ave.)
Reserves: $38 Billion
National Debt: $49Billion (18.5% of GDP)
Oil Price: $89/barrel

Oil Price Chart: www.nairaland.com/attachments/2006543_2015010806_09_56_jpeg2ff3fed32640f68a143f27ad54c27917

With the best oil price regime sustained over a long period, GEJ's govt cannot claim to have performed better that Yar'adua or OBJ. Nigeria may never get the sustained high oil price oppprtunity we got under GEJ.
But under GEJ, no improvement in Power, worsening Security, No Refineries, Oil bunkering of 400,000 barrels per day.

Again, who is fooling who? GEJ has the worst stewardship of the past 3 PDP Presidents.
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References-
Reserves: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/2007-2012-movement-in-foreign-reserves-account/138991/
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/06/external-reserves-shed-11-45b-one-year/

World Debts: http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock?page=8

Oil Price: http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Table.asp
Chart- http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/crude-oil.aspx?timeframe=10y

Did you read 400,000 barrels of crude oil is stolen daily by oil bunkerers? Tompolo is supposed to be protecting Nigeria from these bunkerers. Tompolo has bought private jet, warships while Asari's building a university in Benin Republic.
400,000 barrels per day at 80 per barrel is about $10 Billion stolen annually.

This is the real issue. Is this the personality you want us to vote for?

LRNZH:
[b] We are not supposed to be broke to the point of devaluing the Naira immediately oil price went south.
Corruption and not Boko Haram is the problem.
The $1Billion borrowed to fight insecurity is nothing compared to what is being stolen annually in Nigeria. We estimate between 10 and 15 Billion US Dollars is stolen every year in Nigeria public sector.

Take a look at this statistics:

OBJ (2007 Ave.)
Reserves: $53 billion
National Debt: $17Billion (12% of GDP)
Oil Price: $64/barrel

Yar'adua (2009 Ave.)
Reserves: $42 billion
National Debt: $21Billion (11.6% of GDP)
Oil Price: $53/barrel

GEJ (2014 Ave.)
Reserves: $38 Billion
National Debt: $49Billion (18.5% of GDP)
Oil Price: $89/barrel

Oil Price Chart: www.nairaland.com/attachments/2006543_2015010806_09_56_jpeg2ff3fed32640f68a143f27ad54c27917

With the best oil price regime sustained over a long period, GEJ's govt cannot claim to have performed better that Yar'adua or OBJ. Nigeria may never get the sustained high oil price oppprtunity we got under GEJ.
But under GEJ, no improvement in Power, worsening Security, No Refineries, Oil bunkering of 400,000 barrels per day.

Again, who is fooling who? GEJ has the worst stewardship of the past 3 PDP Presidents.
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References-
Reserves: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/2007-2012-movement-in-foreign-reserves-account/138991/
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/06/external-reserves-shed-11-45b-one-year/

World Debts: http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock?page=8

Oil Price: http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Table.asp
Chart- http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/crude-oil.aspx?timeframe=10y

Did you read 400,000 barrels of crude oil is stolen daily by oil bunkerers? Tompolo is supposed to be protecting Nigeria from these bunkerers. Tompolo has bought private jet, warships while Asari's building a university in Benin Republic.
400,000 barrels per day at 80 per barrel is about $10 Billion stolen annually.

This is the real issue. Is this what you want us to vote for?

Descartes:
K

pacesetter939:
He had better listen.

Kingsasian:
oga e be like say u go go command our boys for the war front o since its easy to combat those insurgents from ur post.

Akpan107:
hahahahaha... Very funny...

The APC loser's are soo frustrated!

Nigeria is not Gbabo Country.

But if you still feel to come out and fight GEJ after he must have been decleared the winner of the poll, you are free to do so.

But you must take whatever you see!

SergeAlain:
Have thoroughly read and digested the accounts of this soldier. I have never been in the army and so my comments cannot be out of experience. However, i have followed military history and technology for over 20 years and so i have a number of opinions based on what i have seen/read from other military campaigns etc.

In general let me start by saying that the Nigerian Army has not been professionally run since the days of IBB when it became a legitimate govt tactic to under equip and under train the military for fear of coups. Gen Ihejirika admitted when he took over that there had been no training exercises for years before he came in, troops were forbidden to even warm the tanks and fighting vehicles lest it became an excuse for mobilising for a coup. thus many of those equipment were patently serviceable by the time the BH insurgency escalated late 2013. Bearing that in mind the soldier in question had not been involved in real military maneuvers since he returned from Sierra Leone.

1. It is obvious that the soldiers were already scared once they heard they were going to the North East (in the training camp), and so they were actually already defeated. All that was needed was for BH to show up and they were ready to run. Hence the insistence on Aircraft, helicopters and tanks to do the main fighting so that they would be left with only mopping up. Mean while the Boko haram you are fighting is armed mainly with what you guys throw away/abandon as you are fleeing.

2. He made mention of the enemy using anti aircraft guns against men. For the un initiated this is true. BH uses high calibre guns from 12.7mm to 23mm mounted on trucks against the Nigerian Army, and the effect is deadly. However, we have now gotten to where the Soldiers are so scared that the mere sound of those guns appears to make them flee. What then would the Army do if it was involved in a conventional war (the soldier mentioned conventional war as if he were wishing for it Lolz) where the other army is well armed like yourself. E.g. If we actually got into a war with Chad or cameroun, these same soldiers would face sustained pounding by artillery (105mm to 155mm) and motars (81mm to 120mm) sometimes for days before you see the enemy infantry. Whereas Boko haram's anti aircraft guns have a range of 1.5 to 2km, some of the conventional artillery have ranges of over 15km. In fact what would the Army do if they were bombed by chad's Mig 29 fighter jets? In summary, if you cant cope with insurgents, dont even talk of conventional war, you would be a non starter.

3. He talked about adversity on the war front. I will respond with two stories-
a. During the Falklands war in 1982, the British army attacked the islands to recover them from Argentina (you can google it if you are interested). The plan was for soldiers to be airlifted from one battle to another by helicopters. Most of the choppers were based on a container ship called HMS Atlantic conveyor. Unfortunately fairly early in the war, Argentine aircraft attacked and sunk the ship with all the helicopters on board. As a result the British Royal Marines and Parachute regiments had to walk over 80miles from the landing point at Port San Carlos to the main Argentine strong hold in the capital Port Stanley. They achieved this carrying over 120 pounds of equipment each! In sometimes freezing climatic conditions and while enduring stiff rear guard actions from Argentine commandos. They still did their job. They did not use this as an excuse to run away.

b. The Biafrans faced continuously superior odds sometimes with no food for days, but they stood and fought for 30 months before surrendering. The soldier talks about receiving N1,000 per day vs N5,000 per day. Is this why he ran away? by the way where was he spending this money in a war zone? The issue bils down to resolve, and sadly it speaks about how seriously we take our Country to start with.


4. He mentioned being issued 3 magazines (i guess of at least 20-30 bullets each). The adequacy of this is relative. In the British Army a combat load of about 6-7 magazines were customary. However, it would be nice to check how many bullets the Boko Haram fighters carry each, and you might be surprised. As an example we may revisit the case of the Biafran Army. Those brave boys were sometimes sent into battle with as few as 10 bullets each. However, their saving grace was that they mostly carried Mauser and Le Enfield bolt action rifles (what you might call 'cock and shoot') this tends to make the soldier try to make every round count unlike when you have an auto rifle. The other matter is of course the range of your weapon--- In the North East engagement ranges of over 500m are normal, whereas the Nigerian Army standard issue weapon the AK 47 is only accurate to about 250m (this is no short range, bear in mind that at 200m a man is about the height of a small pencil and very few soldiers can shoot accurately at that range irrespective of the weapon they are carrying). Thus the bottom line is fire discipline. Hold your fire until the enemy closes to within your accurate shooting range e.g. 150m and then give them hell!!! To achieve this you need disciplined soldiers, who are accustomed to being shot at. Disciplined soldiers who before hand have dug real deep dug outs with proper sandbagged positions, so that once your head is down, you are safe even from shelling by 155mm artillery (except of course there was a direct hit). Just consider, a force of 300 soldiers each with 30 bullets. If they achieve even a 20% hit ratio, each man would hit 6 enemy. I.e. Boko Haram would have taken 1,800 casualties. This is a bit theoretical, but you can see that 3(90 bullets) magazines (per man)well utilized would have stopped the BH in their tracks.

In summary, the work of a Soldier is not easy and it is clear many people in the Army today dont know what they are there for. When you live in free accommodation, enjoy free transport (as staff), free clothing for 5 days of the week, and draw a salary. You should DO your job when the time comes. Complain about the N4,000 short fall after you have won, and see if Nigerians will not fight for you to get your money.

Men are defined not by how they respond when times are easy, but how they react to adversity!!

IT IS INSTRUCTIVE THAT NOT ALL THE SOLDIERS IN QUESTION CHOSE TO RUN AWAY! Some who suffered the same issues as him are still diligently doing their job and are involved today in the crushing of this same Boko haram whom this soldier is making to appear invincible and immortal!!!

I rest my case sirs!

Well rested except for a few parts.

Once a soldier knows his entitlements are being pilfered (by up to 80% ) the loyalty in him/her has been eroded. They cannot trust their commanders. This can never happen in the British forces you quote. That lack of trust has already killed the troops morale even before any engagement with the enemy.

I had to roger a soldier N2k the other day to help accost some goods I was transporting because of hoodlums and police disturbance. The soldier was so greatful that I had to ponder their pay conditions. Back in the day, an attempt to give soldier any form of monetary incentive to run an errand by a civilian would land one in the guard room.

My point is... while your analysis is sound for most part, you have laid the blame at the wrong post.

Realist2:
very heart touching and pathetic,i wish GEJ will read this.

p3ndy79:
you were a product of a joint procreation effort of the maiguard on the street, the driver of your father's neighbour, the meat seller in the market and the bank manager .

If you were born few months after your father was used to sacrifice the village dieties you should be asking your whorish mother who exactly your real father is.
Ponde why you have a different blood group from your brother? Your mother knows how to share responsibilities if in doubt ask your assume uncle

Bastard