₦airaland Forum

Kalapizim:
Does this makes sense to you? Fifty soldiers trapped!

Yes it does

youghs:
There's another group operating around that area called BNL(biafra Nations league)

Yeah but they are in opposition to IPOB. They have condemned the UGM stuff sef

Maduawuchukwu:
Yeah but they are in opposition to IPOB. They have condemned the UGM stuff sef

I doubt that, Cos they still issued some threats few weeks ago

Do you guys know what this is, I've been seeing it attached to NA vehicles in recent times

Bidexiii
Toju200
Odunaywa

Lurker4Long:
This is worrying. Civilians in Geidam milling about, seemingly unperturbed by the presence of these barbarians.

We thought Somalia had a problem

SamuelAnyawu:
I don’t think that picture is recent.

During 2018 the military started using excavators to dig bigger trench. And most of the base has two outer dug trenches by the excavators.

Tho we are not using Hescos or fencing in most of the bases till date. It’s funny the military are using soldiers zinc houses as barricades.

Tho that picture might be an outpost “Tango” In some locations with big barracks in the community. We have different outposts in some parts of the community entrance.

But sincerely most of our FOBs are death traps till date.

Alcohol full my head as I’m just returning from the Army officers Mess

You drink Smernoff say alcohol full your head. If you drink the kind concortion wey we dey drink for Bamako you go just siddon dey piss blood.

DubaiLandLord:
Fighting insurgency is not just about giving out assault rifles to people for them to go and fight. Logistics matters a lot.

Yet you won't ask if someone just sat down in their office and wrote this one.

Just de cruise de go jare

Blueelf:
Hence my questions bro...

If you're asking this it must mean you have zero idea on what training is like in the Army. So what chest have you been using to chide them?

Anyway, there's a documentary of how life is for fresh recruits and NDA cadets on YouTube. If you truly want to rid yourself of ignorance, you can find it

Odunayaw:
If you're asking this it must mean you have zero idea on what training is like in the Army. So what chest have you been using to chide them?

Anyway, there's a documentary of how life is for fresh recruits and NDA cadets on YouTube. If you truly want to rid yourself of ignorance, you can find it

It was rhetorical...

Its not my problem if you don't understand the structure of a rhetorical question

youghs:
Do you guys know what this is, I've been seeing it attached to NA vehicles in recent times

Bidexiii
Toju200
Odunaywa

Landing mat according to my secondary school back then. I heard an Airplane can land on it in any terrain once it’s arranged properly

SamuelAnyawu:
Landing mat according to my secondary school back then. I heard a plan can land on it in any terrain once it’s arranged properly

Plane as how?

demolition:

It's a makeshift mechanism to help the vehicles get out of mud or sand when stuck.

Alright na

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Maduawuchukwu:
Folks, I think that the attacks being carried out by UGM in Akwa Ibom are probably not by IPOB or IPOB affiliated groups. They clearly do not have the reach in those locations. Those attacks might be carried out by local groups imitating what is happening in the SE.
I also think that Kanu is not in control of these UGM stuff. He is inciting and taking credit but those guys on the ground are running their own show. The different groups in different states are most likely not even connected.

Video of Mazi sending warning to Vigilantes and Ebubeagu that he will kill them

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10161097922058975&id=785203974

demolition:

Yes that's its primary use.

But in desert or mud setuations, when laid under the tracks of a stuck vehicle, it frees it without much effort.

Wow. I don learn new things

I saw a video on Facebook where they used the NAF emblem for their RC jets.

https://www.facebook.com/supercarblondie/videos/120781096709266/

africcan military expenditure in 2020 ( source sipri)

JOSCOFELIX:

These soldiers in transit made it out of an attempted ambush... pic.twitter.com/VTvlesSdqC

— Defense News Nigeria (@DefenseNigeria) May 9, 2021

Na una dey make the Guy dey attack una anyhow on Twitter. Hope ain't part of sources of Intels?

With all ur meaningful conversation what has it impacted to help the Nigeria armed forces to achieve key board warriors keep on discussing

Odunayaw:
Few are trying hard to have meaningful conversations. Some think this is their regular ogogoro joint to make laughs and eat flesh

NIGERIA NEEDS A MARINE CORP
An army defends a nation not just from external threats but also internally, infact spiritually, an army defends a nations spiritual, psychological and moral fibre.
Army, Navy, Airforce, Marine Corp, Space force are all armies. The difference between army, navy and airforce is not primarily that one fights on the air, one fights on the sea and another fights on land but rather that an army is made of soldiers, a navy is made of seamen, and an airforce is made of airmen. The United States airforce was separated from the army to become what it is today, and so is the newly created Spaceforce.
A marine corp is simply a navy that fights on land, a marine is a seaman that fights on land with a riffle, a marine does not fight like a soldier, a marine fights like a marine. An army can fight the same battle that a Marine Corp would fight but they would not fight the same fight.
There is a sector of Nigerias spiritual, moral and psychological fibre that the army defends, there is a sector the airforce defends and there is a sector that the navy defends. However, there remains a hole to be filled, it is this hole is that terrorists and separatists are sipping through. Nigeria needs a Marine corp to hold this country together and inspire future generations.
ANCHOR ⚓ NIGERIA NOW !!

SamuelAnyawu:
Landing mat according to my secondary school back then. I heard an Airplane can land on it in any terrain once it’s arranged properly

Mad mad , thanks for the info

demolition:

Funny right.?

You can use it to make runways.
It was extensively used in Vietnam by the US.

It is called the Marston Mat for reference purposes

Lol you'll need a thousand of that to make it a runway

A fruit vendor in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, Abdulkadir Musa, has been shot dead by a gunman suspected to be a soldier for refusing to allow the assailant to go away with his bunch of bananas without paying for it.

The father of the deceased, Alhaji Mustafa Musa, told PUNCH Metro that two soldiers went to his son’s fruits stand on Sunday and purchased a bunch of bananas.

According to him, when the soldiers paid for the bunch, they tried to collect another one for free and this led to a squabble.

Mustafa stated, “They bought a bunch bananas for N300 and instead of them to take the one they paid for, they also took another one and wanted to go with it, but my son did not allow them to do so.

“When they insisted that they must go with the bunch of bananas, the fruit vendor rushed to the police station, which was very close to the scene of the incident, and reported the case and the two soldiers were arrested, but they were released shortly after.”

Mustafa added that immediately the soldiers were released, one of them went home, fetched a gun and returned to the scene and shot the fruit vendor.

“My son was shot in the back and we took him to the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, but unfortunately, he lost his life,” Mustafa said.

The father added that he reported the issue to all relevant authorities, including the Human Rights Commission, so that action could be taken against the soldier, who killed his son.

“I have reported the case to the concerned authorities and I will not rest until the soldier is punished to serve as a deterrent to others,” Mustafa added.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Shehu, told PUNCH Metro that the command was investigating the incident.

“We are investigating the issue,” Shehu said.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/01/14/suspected-thief-burnt-alive-in-ibadan/

Nigeria Army needs to start orientating its personnel on Civility at their recruitment depot

SamuelAnyawu:
Nigeria Army needs to start orientating its personnel on Civility at their recruitment depot

That's is something they ve been doing and are still doing... Some soldiers are messed up from the war and sometimes tend to react too irrational..., Others are just criminals in uniform and the army need to do some serious tasknin weeding em out.
The army should pay more attention to PTSD

SamuelAnyawu:
A fruit vendor in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, Abdulkadir Musa, has been shot dead by a gunman suspected to be a soldier for refusing to allow the assailant to go away with his bunch of bananas without paying for it.

The father of the deceased, Alhaji Mustafa Musa, told PUNCH Metro that two soldiers went to his son’s fruits stand on Sunday and purchased a bunch of bananas.

According to him, when the soldiers paid for the bunch, they tried to collect another one for free and this led to a squabble.

Mustafa stated, “They bought a bunch bananas for N300 and instead of them to take the one they paid for, they also took another one and wanted to go with it, but my son did not allow them to do so.

“When they insisted that they must go with the bunch of bananas, the fruit vendor rushed to the police station, which was very close to the scene of the incident, and reported the case and the two soldiers were arrested, but they were released shortly after.”

Mustafa added that immediately the soldiers were released, one of them went home, fetched a gun and returned to the scene and shot the fruit vendor.

“My son was shot in the back and we took him to the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, but unfortunately, he lost his life,” Mustafa said.

The father added that he reported the issue to all relevant authorities, including the Human Rights Commission, so that action could be taken against the soldier, who killed his son.

“I have reported the case to the concerned authorities and I will not rest until the soldier is punished to serve as a deterrent to others,” Mustafa added.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Shehu, told PUNCH Metro that the command was investigating the incident.

“We are investigating the issue,” Shehu said.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/01/14/suspected-thief-burnt-alive-in-ibadan/

Nigeria Army needs to start orientating its personnel on Civility at their recruitment depot

All this is been caused by the failure of the police force. Those two soldiers committed a crime, why were they not charged to court for prosecution?

The funny thing is that, the two soldiers might not even write down a statement before they were released. Now, that alone will make this case to be very hard to prosecute.

The Nigerian military nah one kin stagnant institution, all the complains of 2011-2015, nah I'm we still dey complain about in 2021.

More ‘atrocities’ committed by some members of the defunct Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad have continually been exposed.

One of them is the story of Eric Okwaji, a middle aged man who only challenged the gun wielding men for wrong ‘parking.’

Okwaji, who was whisked away by the SARS Officers for daring to question them has not been seen anywhere since 2014.

On one sunny day, SARS officers stormed a neighbourhood in Ajegunle, Lagos. They were on a mission to arrest a suspect. Somehow, Eric Okwaji, a resident got caught up in the operations. Seven years later, Eric is yet to be found.

Eric Okwaji spotted a gold-painted Sienna car parked in front of his residence at Nosamu Street, Ajegunle Apapa, Lagos.

Eric, who shared his residence with some friends, asked for the car to be moved because it was blocking movement. Though the car was eventually moved, so was Eric’s – badly beaten and unconscious.

It was late morning on September 17, 2014.

The SARS operatives who parked the car were in Eric’s neighbourhood to make an arrest. Having ransacked the house at 39 Nosamu Street, which they believed was the family home of their target, known as ‘Popo’, they did not find Popo. He apparently did not even live there.

Frustrated by their failed arrest, hearing Eric ask about the car further annoyed them.

“Their next action was to vehemently descend on Eric with serious anger,” Bosah Emeka, a community activist, said in a letter sent to the Onikan office of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police.

The aggression the SARS operatives had reserved for the Popo arrest was poured out on poor Eric, whom they beat to the point of unconsciousness.

Pleas by community residents for the police officers to exercise restraint were ignored. Eric’s battered body was then thrown into the back of the Sienna car, which sped off.

It’s been six years since the car disappeared into the distance.

Family and friends of Eric Okwaji, as well as residents of Ajegunle Apapa in Lagos, have since not seen or heard from the young man.


The search

One of the officers who participated in the violent incident gave his name as Sergeant Samuel C.Y. He left a mobile number, asking that any enquiries about the condition and whereabouts of Eric to be directed to him.

But each time a family member or neighbour called, he asked for money to be paid before he could give out any information.

“When we called him for the release of Eric, he demanded N400,000,” Lawrence Macaulay, Eric’s father, said. “We begged him but he did not listen.”

Once Mr Macaulay, a retired civil servant, realized he could not raise the bribe demanded, he set out on his own, visiting different police stations in search of his son. The Ajeromi Ifelodun Community Movement also sent out dispatches to different police units and NGOs asking for help to find Eric.

In one of such letters, addressed to Amnesty International, the association revealed they had sent search parties to Abuja “to no avail”.

While insisting on his demand for the N400,000 bribe, Sergeant Samuel evaded Eric’s family, preferring to connect on phone and not in person. “Anytime we wanted to meet him, he would say, ‘Come, but you will not meet me’,” Mr Macaulay recalled. “Anytime we got to a station we had been directed to, they would claim they did not know him; or that there was no Sergeant Samuel in that station.”

In a plan to track down the dubious sergeant, Emmanuella, Eric’s sister, connected with Sergeant Samuel via WhatsApp. Her good looks seemed to have caught the attention of the sergeant, who invited her for an evening hangout at a local bar. In their WhatsApp chats, Sergeant Samuel gave his name to Emmanuella as Stephen Bayo.

Even though this scheduled meeting provided a rare opportunity to meet Sergeant Samuel in person, Mr Macaulay discouraged the idea. He said he did not want his daughter, whom he describes as “beautiful”, to come into contact with a man who had been involved in the abduction of his son.

Besides, Mr Macaulay thought Sergeant Samuel’s Whatsapp profile photo, as well as the name Stephen Bayo – which he suspected could be Sergeant Samuel’s real name – were enough leads to go on in terms of getting to the bottom of the issue. “I thought it would help our case,” Mr Macaulay said.

But it didn’t. The sergeant continued to evade the family, keeping his identity a secret while still demanding the N400,000 ransom.

A quick search on Truecaller, a caller identification app, shows the name attached to the number given by Sergeant Samuel as “IPO Tayo Sars”.

Indicted for robbery

Abba Kyari, the celebrity cop who now leads the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT), was the Officer-in-Charge of SARS when 34-year old Eric was arrested.

Mr Macaulay, in the company of one Mr Fatoki, a lawyer from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), made a complaint to Mr Kyari about the unlawful arrest of his son.

Mr Kyari admitted that Eric was in his custody, but claimed he had been arrested for highway robbery, as against the known fact of being beaten and abducted on Nosamu Street in Lagos.

Convinced that there had been a mix-up that could be resolved with some legal backing, Mr Macaulay and Mr Fatoki left hoping to return on a later date to secure Eric’s release.

But things didn’t quite work out that way. Mr Macaulay, whose pension earnings as a retired civil servant were irregular, could not meet the financial demands of his lawyer, Mr Fatoki. He had assumed that given the sensitive nature of the case, Mr Fatoki would consider helping him pro bono.

“We did not go back to Kyari because the NBA lawyer started asking for money,” Mr Macaulay recounted. “After I had given him N20,000, he took me to his chambers and asked that I pay more, but I did not have any money.”

On Thursday, November 6, 2014, The Nation newspaper published an article about two alleged armed robbers arrested by Abba Kayari’s SARS operatives. The men, identified as Olarenwaju Oladejo and Ibrahim Afolabi, both in their early 20s, confessed to armed robbery and indicted an “Eric Okowaji” and two others, who were reported “at large” at the time.

“My father died while he was working with the Ajeromi Local Government Area. I learnt panel beating but did not get enough money from it. Two of my friends, Eric (Okowaji) and Seyi, who is still at large, introduced me to the gang,” one of the suspects, Mr Oladejo, was quoted to have said in another publication by The Punch newspaper.

The photo of the “Eric Okowaji” in question was not attached to the publications by either The Nation or The Punch newspaper.

Could this Eric be the same “Eric Okwaji” who had been whisked away in that gold-painted Sienna car a few weeks earlier?

Mr Macaulay insists that the “Eric Okowaji” referred to by armed robbers could never be his son, Eric Okwaji, whom he said was a decent man.

“Eric was a footballer, and also worked at Bayelsa Motor Park Boundary before he was taken away,” Mr Macaulay said.

It has been exactly six years and seven months since Eric was inexplicably brutalized and plucked away on the streets of Lagos.

Last October, as years of SARS-related brutality reached its peak, provoking protests nationwide and garnering global attention for Nigeria, the anguish of aggrieved families hit close to home. One of such families, Mr Macaulay and his household continue to live in perpetual anxiety, not knowing where their beloved Eric is, or even whether he is alive or not.

Under the pressure of the #ENDSARS protests, the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration disbanded the controversial SARS unit, but the scars of their atrocities remain, with many questions unanswered, many mysteries unsolved.

Abba Kyari, the senior police officer who was responsible for SARS operations in Lagos when Eric was taken by the unit’s officers six years ago, is still being pursued for answers.

Multiple calls to Mr Kyari’s phone number only get his voice mail. He also has not responded to text messages sent to the same number.

Meanwhile, Mr Macaulay has approached the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuse and Other Matters to seek answers.

This story is part of a multimedia project by Tiger Eye Foundation and media partners across Nigeria, documenting police brutality in Nigeria, and advocating for police reform.

https://dailytrust.com/man-who-challenged-sars-operatives-for-parking-wrongly-has-been-missing-for-6-years