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there are fundamental issues involved when a Brigadier General can be charged for mutiny on the frontline. there is more to the case than meet the eye, I think the press should be allowed to cover the case

The trial of senior military officers accused of mutiny during the capture of Baga in Borno State by Boko Haram began yesterday with the officers pleading not guilty to the charges levelled against them.

The officers include Brig-Gen J.O. Komolafe, Cols A. Laguda, V. Ebhaleme, V.O. Ita, I.B. Maina, I. A Aboi, I.M Kabir, M.H. Abubakar, A. A. Egbejule, N. N. Orok, C. A. Magaji, A.O. Agwu, A.J.S. Gulani, O.O. Obolo and A.M. Adetuyi.

Others are Major M.M. Idris, Captains M. Adamu, O. A. Adenaike, M. Gidado, M.M. Clark and S. Raymond, and 2nd Lt S.O. Olowa.

The trial which was earlier postponed three times in a row was carried out behind closed doors amidst tight security at the officers’ mess of the 9th Brigade Headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos.

The 22officers were arrested and indicted for alleged mutiny during the war against the insurgents at the north-eastern part of the country.

A lawyer defending one of the officers on trial, Mr Femi Falana, disclosed to journalists that he was not at the trial venue since the case involving his client, General Komolafe, was not going to be heard.

He said the military authorities had assured him that they would inform him when his client’s case would come up. Falana also admitted representing Brig-Gen Ransome Kuti, though he declined to speak on the matter, since, according to him, his client’s case had not come up.

Lawyer to some of the colonels on trial, Barr Tayo Oyetibo, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), told LEADERSHIP on telephone that the arraignment took place yesterday and that all the accused pleaded not guilty, adding that the case was adjourned till Wednesday and Thursday.



http://leadership.ng/news/416529/mutiny-general-14-colonels-others-deny-charges

lalasticlala maclatunji seun obinoscopy I thought this is worthy of a front page. pls do the needful

Ifeann:
Change definitely needs to come to Nigeria. I just hope its a change for the better

What do you think can be worse than what Nigeria is going through at the moment?

From the economy to security to territorial integrity to food security to the hyper inflation to insincerity and lies at the state of the nation to decaying infracstruture to saying they are re-commissioning power plants yet no light to non payment of salaries to civil servants to a depleting foreign reserve.

I can go on and on about the multiple malaise bothering the nation. Re-election is a period of a running parties referendum if BUHARI/OSINBAJO gets there and don't perform to expectation they are booted out too. That's the beauty of democracy and the power of the electorates.

anonimi:
In case you did not notice this is a PUBLIC, fair & balanced democratic forum not a sole proprietorship political party of a JagaBandit run by minions who execute his orders.

Permit me to remind you that participation here is voluntary hence you may wish to consider other options if you do not want to be mentioned by other participants

Thank God you acknowledge you're empty and uninformed.

Rant on.

anonimi:
Have you asked your JagabBandit how many forms the US Democratic party printed for Obama's second term NOMINATION for which he paid $5,000 for a "golden" invitation card


https://www.theparadigmng.com/wp-content/uploads/blogger/-vltX-jeR8K8/UE3C43KSgyI/AAAAAAAAD8E/vknhmp4M5_s/s1600/tinubu_obama.jpg

What does Tinubu attending a democratic party convention gat to do with OBAMA'S Second term?

Never knew there were other contestants showing on TV like Tafawa Balewa and Abiola that the PDP collected their N2million and never gave them the form.

Or you heard the Democratic Party printed only one Form too like the PDP.

Get off my mention if you're so empty and uninformed.

Nigeria will rise from the ashes of this clueless and insincere government JonaTAN leads.

anonimi:
Is Abike Dabiri nominated to go back to the House?

Has she asked Fashola and Ajimobi why her signature legislative work, the FoI bill is not applied in Lagos & Oyo states

Abi she dey busy dey follow the LOST souls on a wild goose chase that is the perpetually FAILING presidential ambition of the daft old pensioner?

Never knew they nominate people to the house. Are you ordinary daft or it comes on hot Tuesday afternoons?

If Abike refused seeking a 5th term in the House, should the party drag her to the house of reps like it is a chieftaincy title to be bestowed.

Sorry the APC is not a pack of drunks who printed One presidential form for a ticket over 10million supporters can pick.

The antics of a drowning man who foolishly think everyone who has a different opinion is an enemy that must be conquered.

His days are numbered anyway. I dont know what he feels the impact of the sack of a 5star retired General who rose to the pinnacle of his career as a full fledged General will do to his overfull CV.

From Nigeria to the United Nations, Martin Luther Agwai is respected and commended.

Only mediocres and praise singers can serve under a DRUNKARD.

clevvermind:
talk true. Do you think that they are doing it for nothing?

Are you that poor and miserly that you assume every political activity in support of an ideology comes with a price tag?

I guess you're paid for all your comments about PDP on NL then.

babadem2much:
APC campaign strategy is full of swagg. world longest banner, now we have d diasporanz gingering electorates. GMB NONI. D PAPE SURE FOR CHANGE[b][/b][size=8pt][/size][color=#000000][/color]

The party is made up of eggheads and brilliant minds.

We innovate and create.

The statement you called baboon and monkey will be soaked in blood was never made by Buhari.

All he said was "KARE JINI, BINI JINI" an Hausa idiomic expression denoting A FIERCE STRUGGLE or STIFF COMPETITION.

You cannot say someone who use the English idiom " killing two birds with a stone" mean killing 2 people with one bullet, it is silly, it is pure lack of understanding of people who translated it into what you are repeating.

Election in Nigeria has always been violent before, during and after voting. The duty of protecting lives and properties isn't the job of an.opposition party, it is the first duty of government to protect the lives and properties of its citizens.
buhari never called for violence nor did he encouraged it, Government failed in its duties and it is sheer lack of understanding to blame him when it is the duty of the police and the armed forces to restore order amd maintain peace, he indeed told his supporters they are not rioting for him. He contested in 2003, 2007 and 2011 and went through the courts to pursue his rejection of the results of all the polls legally.

The ICC will decide if what she said is worthy of hate N inciting speech against people. The wife of the former president of CIV just got 20years imprisonment today, her own judgement awaits her.

Vote whosoever you wish for but let your choice be driven by the truth not some media propaganda of lies and innuendos.

If Nigeria had been properly ruled in your opinion.in the last 5 or 6years then vote GEJ but if you think otherwise the choice of CHANGING THE STATUS QUO is yours to make.

Remain blessed.

Mods seun lalasticlala maclatunji I think the CONCEPT and CREATIVITY of this idea is worthy of a FrontPage placement.

SLIDEwaxie:
give it to APC, even if they loose, their campaign strategy is just too civil and for primitive being like u, unclear.

Learn to ignore programmed dolt.

anonimi:
....such as Senator Ndume, sponsor of Boko Haram and Buhari!

You know that because your uncle is the DG DSS right? It is a known trait inherent in you lots to spew tactless and stupid statements.

Buhari is the one paying for cameruonians to join up too I guess.

Infact Buhari was the one who drew Boko Allegiance pact with IsIS.

Brainless troll.

luvinhubby:
IGNORAMUS.........What of your APC presidential candidate, GENERAL Muhammadu Buhari who had encouraged & sympathised with boko haram by demanding that army should stop killing them & govt should give them amnesty.

Empty blackheads like you who have no commonsense are programmed to spew rubbish.

Didn't the government plan and announce a ceasefire with BH. Was it Buhari who arranged for the chief of defense staff to announce a ceasefire with BH too?

If the military seem to fail to defeat BH using force and lives of citizens are wasted daily, dont you think it was wise counsel to negotiate.

Programmed dolt. Maybe Buhari is a spirit that cant be arrested if he was found to be encouraging BH.

Vision4God:
God please undertake for us. And destroy d enemies of peace.

Amen and may he reveal all those involved in the spilling of innocent peoples blood.

FOR THOSE IN THE DIASPORA WHO CAN'T MAKE IT HOME FOR THE ELECTION, YOU CAN STILL BE PART OF THE CHANGE.

MAKE A CALL TODAY AND BE PART OF THE MARCH4VICTORY AND THE RESCUE OF NIGERIA.

We are a party driven by passion, craving and dream for a BETTER, PROSPEROUS AND WORKING NIGERIA.

A Nigeria that fulfils the dreams and aspirations of our founding fathers who laboured to earn Independence.

The road to a NEW NIGERIA starts with me and you.

Make an effort to see that CHANGE materialize.

TALK TO SOMEBODY TODAY ABOUT BUHARI/OSINBAJO.

Philip Ideawor, Tunde Doherty, Francis Akpan-Inwang, Philip Ilenbarenemen, suraju and other exco members, thumbs up.

NIGERIA shall rise again.

#ibelieveBuhari/Osinbajo

We are contributing our widow's mite to seeing the NIGERIA of our dreams and the future.

The APC UK chapter has taken the BUHARI/OSINBAJO CAMPAIGN to a new height with creative ideas.

Don't you just love our party with the brains we've got in it.

join the winning team.

Make a call home right now, talk to 2 people daily if you're a member of the diaspora and love the good work of the Chairman, House committee on diaspora matters Abike Dabiri Erewa.

Listening to speeches by mama piss makes me feel there was a deliberate hate filled agenda to kill and destroy part of the north of Nigeria for no just reason but mere politics and revenge.

Some of her utterances belittle the position she occupies as the wife of a president.

Nigeria had the opportunity to nip this ruthless and heartless ISIS wannabe boys when they were just bunch of ragtag hungry and angry youths running amok on motorbikes and using Bow and Arrow with compliments of locally manufactured dane guns to attack local police posts/

Pity we have now become a country harbouring and accommodating mislead and hypnotized societal miscreants who have become a hydra-headed monster difficult to tame.

If the war against insurgency was fought with sincerity and a focused determination to root out the scourge with same vigour and determination from 2010 as seen in the last 3 weeks or so, many souls and properties would have been saved. Just imagine the gain of just 3weeks that a defeat in the earlier scheduled election of February 14 2015 have caused jonaTAN to sit up and the military doing what they could have done 5years ago.

13,000 lives gone, billions lost in movable and unmovable assets, territory as large as a country lost to some miscreants and yet we needed no magical powers or SUPERMAN to come face the threat of the insurgents and reduce their capability to launch attack again.

It was reported that Boko Haram attack on Mubi, Obi Asika and other towns in Adamawa has earned them enough ammunitions and funding that will sustain them for a year or two.

Pitiable that funding for Boko Haram came within the shores of Nigeria as their successful raids on Banks and other financial institutions have provided them with enough raw cash to entice and recruit fighters across the border in a large swat of land filled with people hungry, jobless and hopeless so are ready and willing hands of the evil of insurgency.

Add the free money Boko Haram got to the large cache of arms and ammunitions they stole from armoury of fleeing Nigerian soldiers who didn't deem it fit to blow up unmovable assets when they were doing their TACTICAL MANOVUER OR WITHDRAWAL from rampaging insurgents.

Given free huge sums of local and foreign currencies and huge arms cache gotten freely, they only need willing young men ready to make some free bucks to propagate their campaign of hate and terror.

Nigeria shall overcome this nightmare and likewise its neighbours that had to pay for the corruption among the military elites in Nigeria and a ruling political class that was willing and ready to play politics with the lives of its citizens.

"THE WORLD WILL NOT HAVE CAUSE TO WORRY ABOUT NIGERIA UNDER MY WATCH"- General Mohammadu Buhari, Chatham House Speech, February 2015

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1) A US Special forces operator walks towards a just landed C-130 cargo plane.
2) CNN photographer works in a makeshift work-suite under a mosquito net to send out frontline feeds.

Yaounde, Cameroon (CNN)—Cameroon's security forces are predicting a drawn-out battle with Boko Haram as evidence filters out that the insurgents are now recruiting there.

"We don't doubt that Boko Haram is recruiting in Cameroon," said Col. Joseph Nouma, commander of Operation ALPHA, a special military operation set up by Cameroon's government to fight the Nigerian terrorist group.

He says communities bordering Nigeria have been emptied of men between the ages of 10 and 45.

"Many of them are found across the border in Nigeria, training with the terrorists," he told CNN.

This has made it difficult for the country's defense forces to adequately estimate the power of the terrorist group. Nouma said the number of militants may be greater than is widely believed, though there is no reliable estimate of the group's strength.



"Boko Haram is a permanent metamorphosis, dying every day but recruiting every day as well," says Col. Jacob Kodji, interim commander of the 4th Military Region. "And this complicates a lot of things for us."

Nouma agreed: "We kill them, but they keep on coming."


A heartbreaking discovery


Boko Haram is a Nigerian-based Islamic group whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law. They have carried out a campaign of terror in northern Nigeria, killing thousands, taking hundreds captive, and occupying swaths of territory in Borno state.

As many as 200,000 Nigerians have fled to neighboring countries, creating an urgent humanitarian situation, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported last month.

For the past two years, Boko Haram fighters have been carrying out cross-border raids on Cameroon, slaughtering hundreds and torching entire neighborhoods. But as the country's defense forces -- later joined by battle-hardened Chadian troops -- turned up the momentum against the insurgents, the terrorists began to swell their ranks with Cameroonians.

Nouma said he believes "most of the worst attacks we have suffered" were carried out by Cameroonians fighting for Boko Haram.

Also, the militants' ability to hit several different places at once, and with precision, suggests that "there are people over here giving them information," Nouma said.

In January, Boko Haram struck Fotokol, a Cameroonian town separated by only a bridge from Gambarou, Nigeria, a stronghold of the Islamist extremists. The attackers killed more than 400 people.

Cameroonian and Chadian soldiers stationed there managed to kill 150 invaders. Among them was the son of Ahmadou Moustafa, a Fotokol resident.

For two months, Moustafa didn't know the whereabouts of his son, Akim, or what he was doing. He didn't find out until the aftermath of the fighting, when locals removed the veil on one of the dead attackers to reveal his 15-year-old boy's face.

"I was really shocked and embarrassed at the development," Moustafa said.


Money's allure in impoverished region


While it's difficult to fathom the appeal of extreme, violent doctrine among young Cameroonians, ambient poverty and chronic unemployment in the Far North region may explain why some there are lured to Boko Haram pay. The government's 2010 National Population and Housing Census found the region to be the country's poorest, with 60% of the population living in poverty.

Joseph Mbah Ndam, an opposition member of Cameroon's parliament, told CNN that the government of President Paul Biya "has for over 30 years now failed to create jobs for the youths. And in such circumstances, they may be easily manipulated into joining such hate groups."

A senior government official from the region, who would not be named, agreed, saying that "in a context of such extreme poverty, it couldn't be otherwise."

"No significant economic project has been carried out there ... the Far North is the most populated in the country, but has been completely abandoned," the official explained. "So it's not surprising that youths should be sensitive to calls by Boko Haram."

Desperate youths aren't the only recruits, however. Very often, police are bribed into collaborating.

In January, Abdoulaye Farikou, senior inspector of police in Balaza, was arrested by the military and accused of using his position as head of the Identification Unit in the Far North region town to issue Cameroonian ID cards to militants coming in from Nigeria.

Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrate Cameroon and gather vital security information.


Hope in form of Multinational Joint Task Force

Along with the presence of some 6,000 Cameroonian troops and plans to deploy some 20,000 more over the next two years, the government now has come up with a $135 million program to finance 94 development projects.

Part of the money will be used to increase cereal production by 30% in the Far North region, where child malnutrition now stands at some 70%, according to Economy Minister Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi. Other investments will be made in road construction, railway development, mining and social services.

"We can't easily win this war with military means alone," said Mijiyawa Bakary, the regional governor. "The development package government has put in place will definitely keep many young people busy, and therefore will not be charmed by the false promises of the terrorist group."

But development projects can only be carried out in a climate of peace, and officials here hope that the Multinational Joint Task Force -- about 8,500 troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Benin -- will defeat Boko Haram and lay that groundwork.


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/03/africa/boko-haram-recruiting-cameroon/index.html?


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1) A CNN reporter interviewing Chadian Soldiers fighting BH.
2) Some Nigerian navy special forces undergoing desert training by British Special forces.
3) a man watching the landing of a US Hercules C-130 airplane bringing in equipment and arms to the MNJTF
4) A US special forces commander looks on while a Chadian soldier takes aim

Guess they have stepped on the toes of the irunmoles. Hope it is not arson and hope the PDP they support blindly have a professional and well trained police force to help them unravel what happens if it was arson and not an accident.

The product of blind and parochial support driven by bigotry is the elevation of a government which will fail to protect your lives and properties when the call of duty beckons.

Sorry for their lost, in a sane society we will havearrests and investigations but in Nigeria we will only point fingers or blame the witches in the village for whatever happens.

If we have a working and responsive government we will all become VICTORS but if governance is mediocre and clueless then we will all become VICTIMS.

Guess they have stepped on the toes of the irunmoles. Hope it is not arson and hope the PDP they support blindly have a professional and well trained police force to help them unravel what happens if it was arson and not an accident.

The product of blind and parochial support driven by bigotry is the elevation of a government which will fail to protect your lives and properties when the call of duty beckons.

Sorry for their lost, in a sane society we will have arrests and investigations but in Nigeria we will only point fingers or blame the witches in the village for whatever happens.

If we have a working and responsive government we will all become VICTORS but if governance is mediocre and clueless then we will all become VICTIMS.

rka1:
You should direct that question to the Finance Minister who blocked a lot of the requests for arms procurement. In case you didn't know, the defence budget has been mainly for Recurrent Expenditure i.e. salaries etc and not Capital Expenditure i.e. military equipment.

I am not swayed by lies and excuses, just plain facts. And I don't play politics with the military, for whoever is in power, I will always support them and not run them down to score cheap points.

You mean the FINANCE MINISTER BLOCKED REQUESTS FOR ARMS PROCUREMENT, WOW, She must be an APC MEMBER infact she must be a top shura committee of Boko Haram elders.

Do you people even think of your utterances and thought process at all?

If you agreed the FINANCE MINISTER BLOCKED requests for ARM PROCUREMENT, does it not correlate with my argument that political ans military leadership insincerity made Nigeria lost its prestige, lives of its citizens and territorial integrity.

Go through my posts with deep reflection and commonsense you will see the crux of my argument.

Boko Haram was/is never a match for the Nigerian Army if the Gocernment was sincere in the fight against it from 2010. Q.E.D

Except you want to say YOUR FINANCE MINISTER IS A FIFTH COLUMNIST OR AN OPPOSITION MOLE.

Stop defending mediocrity, you only show your shallowness if you do so.

CyberTerrorist:
We will get back to you...Fool

Come with your entire lineage when you're coming modafucker moronic idio.t

If you need my GPS lock ask now.

CyberTerrorist:
You are an ediot and a hopeless bastard...Don't ever say what you don't know or we deal with you in a way you will regret all your life.. ..That you reside in USA does not mean you are safe...We know everything about you..This is your final warning. If you doubt it, then try it..

Why are you like your father, all mouth and no action.

Please bring it on, if you cant you just a Bastard attention seeker. I'm not in the states if you need my location, ask okay.

Empty nutshell.

rka1:
My friend, it isn't as simple as that. The West blocked procurement of military equipment, hence the FG had to turn to Russia and other Eastern markets for equipment. You just don't buy high grade military equipment off the shelf, so the F.G. has had to get some equipment from the blackmarket as well.

About 65% of equipment needed have arrived in the last few weeks hence the turn around and BH can't now use anti-aircraft fire on ground troops from miles away.

And yes, 36 communities have been recovered by the Nigerian army while Chad has been allowed to enter Gamboru and Dikwa, that is 2 towns.

The article you posted said Chadian and Nigerien troops were amassing in Diffa, which is in Niger not Nigeria.

Why are you people easily swayed by lies and excuses? The west blocked them from procuring arms and ammunition but the WEST DIDN'T BAR THEM FROM RETURNING THE FUNDS THAT WAS ALREADY BUDGETED AND RELEASED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ARMS PROCUREMENT BACK TO THE TREASURY?

what happened to military spending allocation.from from 2010 to 2014 running into 4trillion naira if the WEST blocked them.

You think the WEST working with the MNJF doesn't know about the sleaze and corruption going on.

The present arms were procured from where? What stopped them from buyng from the new friends since.2010.

uptoHim:
What do you expect, when you are the one giving our government a bad press because you want to give GEJ administration away. its ia going to take Nigeria more than 50 years to recover from what some of us have done to her in the name of hating GEJ. Its really a pity. Of course, "you" won't stop until you wake up to find out GEJ's loss means Nigeria lost

GEJ is the worst thing to have happened to Nigeria since 1914.

What positives can you point to? You people need to remove the wool of bigotry clogging your eyes.

He is badluck personified. If you doubt me ask reverend mbaka.