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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Covidodo: 8:28am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
What kind of Anti Aircraft Gun is in the possession of the Bandits that can threaten GMB aircraft?

I find it so hard to believe this news.

Except they have a SAM, no anti aircraft gun can take down any of the presidential jets cause of how high they do fly.
Did you even read at all ??
Does the President fly Jet to Daura Smh

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by RZArecta(m): 8:28am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
[s]What kind of Anti Aircraft Gun is in the possession of the Bandits that can threaten GMB aircraft?

I find it so hard to believe this news.

Except they have a SAM, no anti aircraft gun can take down any of the presidential jets cause of how high they do fly[/s].
military intelligence experts were scared enough to pay $50000 for just a stolen gun yet Morufu from Egbeda thinks the story is a lie. What was your opinion when your brother bandits shot down a fighter jet few months ago ? Yeye cool

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Dingdongbells(m): 8:28am On Oct 17, 2021
They would have done us a lot of favour by shooting down the clown in Aso Rock. Btw the amount can never be $50k. You don't need a sack to carry that amount. Is the clown worth a mere $50k?
Also anti-aircraft gun could shoot down his helicopter which would have saved us a lot of stress. The govt are indirectly funding these criminals.

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by RiceProducers: 8:29am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
What kind of Anti Aircraft Gun is in the possession of the Bandits that can threaten GMB aircraft?

I find it so hard to believe this news.

Except they have a SAM, no anti aircraft gun can take down any of the presidential jets cause of how high they do fly.
Wrong!!!
Presidential jets and choppers have almost fool proof protection from SAMs. There are impressive technologies against these sophisticated weapons built into the aircraft.

There is very little or NO from manual 23mm ordnance fired from weapons taken off MRAPS, IFVs or gun trucks.

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Blitzerz: 8:30am On Oct 17, 2021
Solution number one.

Remove all Fulani insiders from the Nigerian army.

And watch how this terrorism will die a natural death.

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Nobody: 8:31am On Oct 17, 2021
Covidodo:

Did you even read at all ??
Does the President fly Jet to Daura Smh
Do you even have sense at all?

It seems some of you guys think the president is just like a random Governor, there will be soldiers patroling every nook and cranies of daura when the president is coming.

You can't just come out from no where to shoot down the presidential plane.
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by nitt: 8:31am On Oct 17, 2021
The Nigerian military leadership just dey cash out.

That N20million will be shared with some generals and operational commanders.

If you know, you know
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by proclinician: 8:32am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
It can only shoot down planes within is range.

Only a SAM can take out a presidential jet easily.

What is the range of the anti aircraft gun and how high does the Nigerian presidential jet fly?

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by obailala(m): 8:32am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
And you think security personnel won't be monitoring areas close and far from the Airport the presidential jet will be landing?
For up to 50 km? Planes tend to start descending from even nore than 100km away. How many security personnel can possibly be deployed?

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by MondayOsunbor(m): 8:32am On Oct 17, 2021
lalasticlala:
Nigeria’s Gangs Raised Millions by Kidnapping Children. Now the Government Can’t Stop Them.



Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/nigerias-gangs-raised-millions-by-kidnapping-children-now-the-government-cant-stop-them-11634400009


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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by luizpippo(m): 8:33am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
What kind of Anti Aircraft Gun is in the possession of the Bandits that can threaten GMB aircraft?

I find it so hard to believe this news.

Except they have a SAM, no anti aircraft gun can take down any of the presidential jets cause of how high they do fly.

I want to believe the jet is parked at 11,000 ft above and Buhari just evaporates from his bedroom into it.

The jet wont taxi on the run way and it wont start it ascent from ground zero before gaining height.

Kwantinue

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by jasmine1600: 8:35am On Oct 17, 2021
PDP was not this bad. It were to be in the east, a full military garrison would have been deployed to shot on sight.
They pay these people and appoint them to government.
Imagine if a trained custom personal had done this in front of his superiors.

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Nobody: 8:36am On Oct 17, 2021
obailala:
For up to 50 km? Planes tend to start descending from even nore than 100km away. How many security personnel can possibly be deployed?
There is something called AWACS.

AWACs will pick up the guntrucks before it will have the chance to engage a presidential jet.
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by kjhova(m): 8:36am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
What kind of Anti Aircraft Gun is in the possession of the Bandits that can threaten GMB aircraft?

I find it so hard to believe this news.

Except they have a SAM, no anti aircraft gun can take down any of the presidential jets cause of how high they do fly.

No matter how high they fly, they'd have to come within shooting range when landing in Katsina. This AAG was in the possession of a bandit group in Katsina. They can easily shoot down the aircraft during its landing process.

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Deeejah(f): 8:37am On Oct 17, 2021
Aufbauh:
Quite shameful and pathetic!
It's an open secret that so many big players and top military men are involved in this sham.

It is my candid opinion to say that insecurity in Northern Nigeria is one of the biggest medium used by politicians and the military to enrich themselves. It is their own oil money.

Same thing I do say. It's like a partnership between them. Each party with its percentage of the ransom. Talk about retirement plan.
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by MondayOsunbor(m): 8:37am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
Soldiers and police are always on ground. They will be monitoring every inch of land close to the Airport.

The Bandits won't just come out of no where to shoot down the president plane while it's descending or ascending



we go like put your theory to the test !


the result will solve all our problem

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by uchdavinci: 8:37am On Oct 17, 2021
This country nawa... criminals stealing munitions from the military, as in military oo and now the government is paying ransom to cover their lads incompetence, quite pathetic.
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by iyke2frankeze: 8:38am On Oct 17, 2021
1. An attack on Boko Haram is an attack against the North - Muhammadu Buhari.
2. Bandits are innocent citizens doing their business, they only kidnap for ransom - El-Rufai.
3. If you want to live in peace in your land with bandits, show them love and give them your land to settle down - Gumi.

This view is highly supported by all Northerners and Yoruba Muslim Miscreants. It is well! We are getting there small small!

Let's I forget, they successfully shot down a military helicopter gunship and they said "it is an ordinary helicopter, that that they cannot shoot down an airplane"
These guys shot down a military fighter jet and the are still not considered as threat to the country. It is IPOB that is a threat to the country. We are gradually getting there!
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Terrier99: 8:38am On Oct 17, 2021
States are using their Security votes to buy patrol vehicles for security agents, the FG is using its own to pay bandits.
This is a dark phase in the history of this country.
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by BreakingNews21: 8:39am On Oct 17, 2021
Story reads like fiction. How can foreign WJS journalists have intimate details of such crimes in the bush of the north? Dem would be kidnapped and held for ransom themselves unless they have a close relationship with and get intel from the sponsors. I noticed Bloomberg News also publishes negative and mischievous stories about the administration. Seems like dem hate when certain international financial forces can't easily help in the looting of the Nigeria national treasury which has been the norm for decades.
The full disclosure of the Pandora Papers can't arrive soon enough.
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by kjhova(m): 8:39am On Oct 17, 2021
lalasticlala:
Nigeria’s Gangs Raised Millions by Kidnapping Children. Now the Government Can’t Stop Them.



Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/nigerias-gangs-raised-millions-by-kidnapping-children-now-the-government-cant-stop-them-11634400009

This is some serious eish!!!

This country is in some serious predicament! We now have way too many non-state groups here competing with the Nigerian state!

Bandit groups...(countless)
Islamist groups...(at least 3)
Separatist groups...(at least 2)
Other yet to be fully defined groups...(Lord knows how many!!!)
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by tradepunter: 8:39am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
What kind of Anti Aircraft Gun is in the possession of the Bandits that can threaten GMB aircraft?

I find it so hard to believe this news.

Except they have a SAM, no anti aircraft gun can take down any of the presidential jets cause of how high they do fly.

You just open your mouth waaaa

If you don't know anything it's best you keep shut... I would have responded to you but seeing the angle you throwing this question have a senister notion.

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Nobody: 8:39am On Oct 17, 2021
Lol what a country
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by brightDdon(m): 8:40am On Oct 17, 2021
lalasticlala:
Nigeria’s Gangs Raised Millions by Kidnapping Children. Now the Government Can’t Stop Them.



Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/nigerias-gangs-raised-millions-by-kidnapping-children-now-the-government-cant-stop-them-11634400009
my country my country
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Sheriman(m): 8:40am On Oct 17, 2021
A country that does not adopt equal measures and treatment to fight crime especially in a multi ethics country like Nigeria will forever fail to end it. Nigerian government is vividly showing it to the world that they are government that facilitate terrorism, religion extremism that has cause hundreds of thousands of death of civilians and military which also result to millions of people losing their means of livelihoods.
God go punish those politicians and top army generals from generations to generations who are behind all this things.

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by namo77: 8:42am On Oct 17, 2021
What a shame
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by house10s: 8:42am On Oct 17, 2021
so dey can bomb Fisher men bomb settlement but can bomb their brothers because dey took their thing
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by FlipModeSquade(m): 8:44am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
What kind of Anti Aircraft Gun is in the possession of the Bandits that can threaten GMB aircraft?

I find it so hard to believe this news.

Except they have a SAM, no anti aircraft gun can take down any of the presidential jets cause of how high they do fly.
Even if they take you to see the gun..

You will still not believe..

We leave you to your disbelieve.. sad

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by iyke2frankeze: 8:45am On Oct 17, 2021
1. An attack on Boko Haram is an attack against the North - Muhammadu Buhari.
2. Bandits are innocent citizens doing their business, they only kidnap for ransom - El-Rufai.
3. If you want to live in peace in your land with bandits, show them love and give them your land to settle down - Gumi.

This view is highly supported by all Northerners and Yoruba Muslim Miscreants. It is well! We are getting there small small!

Let's I forget, they successfully shot down a military helicopter gunship and they said "it is an ordinary helicopter, that that they cannot shoot down an airplane"
These guys shot down a military fighter jet and the are still not considered as threat to the country. It is IPOB that is a threat to the country. We are gradually getting there!
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by juman(m): 8:45am On Oct 17, 2021
Which kind of useless country is this?
Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by Jamesbiodun(m): 8:46am On Oct 17, 2021
If this news is real, why haven't they declare state of emergency in the north... The bandit claim they have enough ammunition that they don't need Nigeria army ammunition, lobatan grin ilutidaru patapata cheesy

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Re: Government Pays $50,000 Ransom To Bandits To Retrieve Antiaircraft Gun - WSJ by lexy2014: 8:46am On Oct 17, 2021
DubaiLandLord:
And you think security personnel won't be monitoring areas close and far from the Airport the presidential jet will be landing?

Pls read again and take note of where obailala mentioned 50km:

Some anti-aircraft guns have a range of over 30,000ft, which isnt far from the standard cruising altitude of a 737. You'd be surprised at what some of those monster guns can bring down. Besides, if they mount the gun even 50km from the airport, it could easily bring down a descending plane.

So security personnel will provide security as far as 50km from d airport

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