AkoniMoipei:


Is witchcraft involved? You naija people shei. Those women

You call the traditions of your fathers witchcraft?

GeneralDae:

You call the traditions of your fathers witchcraft?

Wat do u expect from an enslaved mind.
They won't mind defending foreign Abrahamic religion that enslaved their fathers, Africans re still enslaved in their mind.
Funny thing is a saudi Arabian and Isreali citizen whom dare leave his ancestoral religion to worship a foreign religion but a slow African wont only worship a foreign religion bt fight his fellow brother to defend a foreign religion.
Although am not a traditionalist but I will never demonize my traditional religion or people who choose to practice it.
Both liberal Muslim and Christian in my region share thesame sentiment.

QuietMynd:

Wat do u expect from an enslaved mind.
They won't mind defending foreign Abrahamic religion that enslaved their fathers, Africans re still enslaved in their mind.
Funny thing is a saudi Arabian and Isreali citizen whom dare leave his ancestoral religion to worship a foreign religion but a slow African wont only worship a foreign religion bt fight his fellow brother to defend a foreign religion.
Although am not a traditionalist but I will never demonize my traditional religion or people who choose to practice it.
Both liberal Muslim and Christian in my region share thesame sentiment.

until some 50years back, some of your African religion Were still sacrificing twins, and believed that when a woman dies during child birth, the child is Evil "ogbanje".

Kings or Obas were buried With human sacrifices. Theres a particular region/tribe in Nigeria, that still practice 'tradinional worship'the rate of ritual killing is mind blowing.
Lets go to Togo,
When next you visit that country, try and find out about their popular market, where human parts are dried and sold in the open,
Their religion, ''voodooism''. Did whites also sell that narrative? if you think so, take a trip to Togo... Then don't forget to visit a popular shrine in Benin Republic were pythons are worshiped.
Don't compare Christianity to any other religion, because Education came to Nigeria through Christian missionaries.

@ Vaxx come and see. No wonder you wanted to drag the Giant of Africa into the league of tiny countries that depend on Niger,🤢

https://dailytrust.com/nigers-sanction-shortage-of-cooking-ingredient-hit-ghana/

dreamxhaser:
@ Vaxx come and see. No wonder you wanted to drag the Giant of Africa into the league of tiny countries that depend on Niger,🤢

https://dailytrust.com/nigers-sanction-shortage-of-cooking-ingredient-hit-ghana/

But that is very much expected. You are just the few morons who only think niger war will not affect Nigeria. You are the only punk . Many nairaland front page was full of how millions of dollars business between Niger and Nigeria have been shut off.

IGpro1:
until some 50years back, some of your African religion Were still sacrificing twins, and believed that when a woman dies during child birth, the child is Evil "ogbanje".

Kings or Obas were buried With human sacrifices. Theres a particular region/tribe in Nigeria, that still practice 'tradinional worship'the rate of ritual killing is mind blowing.
Lets go to Togo,
When next you visit that country, try and find out about their popular market, where human parts are dried and sold in the open,
Their religion, ''voodooism''. Did whites also sell that narrative? if you think so, take a trip to Togo... Then don't forget to visit a popular shrine in Benin Republic were pythons are worshiped.
Don't compare Christianity to any other religion, because Education came to Nigeria through Christian missionaries.

Speak for ur ethnic bro, education didn't come through Christianity, rather western education. Education already exist in my own culture, western education is not the only education in this world, every religion have their own education rather Islam, Hindu, monks, Christianity nd so on.
The same democracy they brought to Africa have been here in my ethnic since the beginning of time. Even before the white could think of been civilized.
Wat has religion has do with ritual.
Like ur darling white masters don't do ritual has well.
Research different occultic groups that exist in the West. Example freemasonry e.t.c
You can worship ur masters religion if u re still in their colonial shackles, I don't care. Any who still choose to be in free slavery in this 21st century choose to be their by themselves.
At least leave people who choose to be with their fore fathers religion alone to practice their religion of choice.
If the traditionalist were not tolerating, yall foreign religion won't have survived to this time.

vaxx:
But that is very much expected. You are just the few morons who only think niger war will not affect Nigeria. You are the only punk . Many nairaland front page was full of how millions of dollars business between Niger and Nigeria have been shut off.

Millions of dollars?

Come on, millions of dollars is insignificant to the capacity of Nigerian economy.

Go and sleep jare

dreamxhaser:


Millions of dollars?

Come on, millions of dollars is insignificant to the capacity of Nigerian economy.

Go and sleep jare

if only you know how much millions of dollars means in naira and how many nigerians that are surviving thru such economy., You will not called another man's ways of survival insignificant .

Niger junta bows to pressure, demands meeting with ECOWAS.

After weeks of resisting diplomatic overtures from the United Nations, African Union, Economic Community of West African States and the United States, the junta in Niger Republic has finally agreed to talks with the ECOWAS to resolve the political crisis in the Sahel country.

The positive signal from the military leaders followed a meeting with a group of Nigerian Islamic clerics in Niamey on Saturday.

Zeine noted “We have agreed and the leader of our country has given the green light for dialogue. They will now go back and inform the Nigerian President what they have heard from us. We hope in the coming days, they (ECOWAS) will come here to meet us to discuss how the sanctions imposed against us will be lifted.”

[url] https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/08/breaking-niger-coup-leader-tchiani-agrees-to-dialogue-with-ecowas/amp/ [/url]

AskiaHarem:
Niger junta bows to pressure, demands meeting with ECOWAS.

After weeks of resisting diplomatic overtures from the United Nations, African Union, Economic Community of West African States and the United States, the junta in Niger Republic has finally agreed to talks with the ECOWAS to resolve the political crisis in the Sahel country.

The positive signal from the military leaders followed a meeting with a group of Nigerian Islamic clerics in Niamey on Saturday.

Zeine noted “We have agreed and the leader of our country has given the green light for dialogue. They will now go back and inform the Nigerian President what they have heard from us. We hope in the coming days, they (ECOWAS) will come here to meet us to discuss how the sanctions imposed against us will be lifted.”

[url] https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/08/breaking-niger-coup-leader-tchiani-agrees-to-dialogue-with-ecowas/amp/ [/url]

More or less like ECOWAS bowing out since they can't find an option to attack Niger.

The USA is not willing to sponsor another ECOWAS thing, financially.

Dialog is always best

Just40:
More or less like ECOWAS bowing out since they can't find an option to attack Niger.

The USA is not willing to sponsor another ECOWAS thing, financially.

Dialog is always best

ECOWAS doesn't need USA to sponsor anything. They weren't declaring war against Niger like in Liberia or Sierraleone that involved ECOMOG and the International community at a point as well, but rather more like a secret operation that targets or threatens the Junta. The only thing slowing ECOWAS down is because ECOWAS don't want conflict in that region due to the aftermath and the fact that terrorists would become free to operate taking advantage of the distraction of soilders at the Nigerian-Niger border and the Sahel.

GeneralDae:

ECOWAS doesn't need USA to sponsor anything. They weren't declaring war against Niger like in Liberia or Sierraleone that involved ECOMOG and the International community at a point as well, but rather more like a secret operation that targets or threatens the Junta. The only thing slowing ECOWAS down is because ECOWAS don't want conflict in that region due to the aftermath and the fact that terrorists would become free to operate taking advantage of the distraction of soilders at the Nigerian-Niger border and the Sahel.

well

All the ECOWAS missions I've come to know we're sponsored by the US and UN. Infact, in Liberia, all the mowac were provided by the UN.

You cannot not threaten a junta if you don't have a force to attack with

Just40:
well

All the ECOWAS missions I've come to know we're sponsored by the US and UN. Infact, in Liberia, all the mowac were provided by the UN.

You cannot not threaten a junta if you don't have a force to attack with

The mobilisation they did to threaten Gambia, was it also sponsored by U.S?

Abacha sent 700 soilders to Sierraleone at first on his own to first free the capital and restore the president in 1997 before the war continued with UN until 2003. Was Abacha sponsored by U.S to do that? U.S hated Abacha.

ECOWAS have currently deployed hundreds of soldiers to protect Guinea Bissau from coup since 2022. Is that also being sponsored by U.S?

GeneralDae:

The mobilisation they did to threaten Gambia, was it also sponsored by U.S?

Abacha sent 700 soilders to Sierraleone at first on his own to first free the capital and restore the president in 1997 before the war continued with UN until 2003. Was Abacha sponsored by U.S to do that? U.S hated Abacha.

ECOWAS have currently deployed hundreds of soldiers to protect Guinea Bissau from coup since 2022. Is that also being sponsored by U.S?

His opinion is from Ghanas perspective.. Ghanaians don't get involved unless someone bears the financial cost.

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Nigeria economy will be around 250 billion dollars now, if we calculate using official government rate of 760 and around 190 billion dollars if we calculate according to black market rate of 920 for 1 dollar.

Nigeria is in 5th position in total GDP and around 25th position in GDP per capita in Africa.

Just40:
More or less like ECOWAS bowing out since they can't find an option to attack Niger.

The USA is not willing to sponsor another ECOWAS thing, financially.

Dialog is always best

Are you illiterate, didn’t read the articles, or just playing dumb?

It’s Niger that’s pushing hard for this dialogue; they even bothered making up an excuse for dodging the last.

Just40:
well

All the ECOWAS missions I've come to know we're sponsored by the US and UN. Infact, in Liberia, all the mowac were provided by the UN.

You cannot not threaten a junta if you don't have a force to attack with

False; the US/UN hasn’t sponsored an ECOWAS mission in any meaningful compacity since the 90s. The Gambia mission had zero was completely covered by Senegal and Nigeria financially & physically.

You seem to be projecting again. We’ve been over this. “Just because Ghana can’t doesn’t mean others in the region can’t”.

Meanwhile in Ghana…🙄

EKONGKING:
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Nigeria economy will be around 250 billion dollars now, if we calculate using official government rate of 760 and around 190 billion dollars if we calculate according to black market rate of 920 for 1 dollar.

Nigeria is in 5th position in total GDP and around 25th position in GDP per capita in Africa.

I told slowpoke.s here but they wanted to live a lie.Now forex reserves are down to 17B.Naira will continue to weaken. At least Tinubu seem determined to get the bottom of the mess n clean it up like he did Lagos garbage infested menace

AskiaHarem:


Are you illiterate, didn’t read the articles, or just playing dumb?

It’s Niger that’s pushing hard for this dialogue; they even bothered making up an excuse for dodging the last.



False; the US/UN hasn’t sponsored an ECOWAS mission in any meaningful compacity since the 90s. The Gambia mission had zero was completely covered by Senegal and Nigeria financially & physically.

You seem to be projecting again. We’ve been over this. “Just because Ghana can’t doesn’t mean others in the region can’t”.

Meanwhile in Ghana…🙄

You must be an idiot. Where was Nigeria when Ghana sent about 300 plus soldiers to ivory coast or that of Mali? These are personal non US mission, it is not even ecowas assignment.

Well the main purpose of ecowas is to provide economic cooperation among members state and not millitary assistance . Some do overlap their job for security purposes.

Anyway, this is the amount Ghana has injected from her own end simply for security and we are not facing any insurgent here.

Sandton to Johannesburg

20 km apart,

rvp20182:
I told slowpoke.s here but they wanted to live a lie.Now forex reserves are down to 17B.Naira will continue to weaken. At least Tinubu seem determined to get the bottom of the mess n clean it up like he did Lagos garbage infested menace

Now, Ruto is caving in to the Raila led protesters and finding a backdoor to reinstate fuel subsidy.

I told you people removing subsidies completely will mess up any economy not to talk of an African country where people are dirt poor but you wanted to live a lie. Now cost of living has skyrocketed in both Nigeria and Kenya.
I told idiots the Raila protests affects the whole of Kenya, they said it was only the garbage dominated Kibera slums. How now?

Especially because Ghana Military has shown disinterest in such stupid action called "invasion".

Tinubu is very clueless
He should take his time and study issues, strategize before issuing statements.
Africa is tired of Old Age syndrome

Just40:
More or less like ECOWAS bowing out since they can't find an option to attack Niger.

The USA is not willing to sponsor another ECOWAS thing, financially.

Dialog is always best

What is the land size of Sierra Leone or Gambia? You should know that Ecowas invading countries like Niger or Mali cannot be same as the afforementioned countries. Considering their land size it will be very difficult to embark on such mission.
The aftermath will be dire

GeneralDae:

The mobilisation they did to threaten Gambia, was it also sponsored by U.S?

Abacha sent 700 soilders to Sierraleone at first on his own to first free the capital and restore the president in 1997 before the war continued with UN until 2003. Was Abacha sponsored by U.S to do that? U.S hated Abacha.

ECOWAS have currently deployed hundreds of soldiers to protect Guinea Bissau from coup since 2022. Is that also being sponsored by U.S?

The emboldened is what these chest-beaters don't get. Their country has been fighting Boko Haram for how long now and they are here supporting rubbish so they can brag over what they are not.

Ghana has been deploying Soldiers and Police for all kinds of missions since the days of Adam but this one about Niger is a nonsense mission and we are not interested in nonsense

vaxx:
You must be an idiot. Where was Nigeria when Ghana any about 300 plus soldiers to ivory coast or that of Mali? These are personal non US mission, it is not even ecowas assignment.

Well the main purpose of ecowas is to provide economic cooperation among members state and not millitary assistance . Some they overlap their job for security purposes.

Anyway, this is the amount Ghana has injected from her own end simply for security and we are not facing any insurgent here.

vankelvin:
The emboldened is what these chest-beaters don't get. Their country has been fighting Boko Haram for how long now and they are here supporting rubbish so they can brag over what they are not.

Ghana has been deploring Soldiers and Police for all kinds of missions since the days of Adam but this one about Niger is a nonsense mission and we are not interested in nonsense

This exaggeration about fighting Bokoharam for years is a fallacy. Bokoharam as a capable terrorist group capable of holding territory in a non guerrilla warfare only lasted from towards end of 2014 to around mid 2015. Since then their remnants have been fighting guerrilla warfare in Sambisa, recruiting from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon with their sponsors and network in all four countries.

Nigeria has a weak police force that was neglected for decades of military rule, but Bokoharam since then has required mostly civil intelligence gathering by police and non kinetic action.

We don't want war but we all know Ghana and other West African countries do not have the weapons. Nigeria has the weapons especially the best air force and naval force in the region but do not have the finance to waste on a war in Niger at this time.

Also, Nigeria would not want to destabilize Niger because of the many terrorists groups there.

vaxx:
You must be an idiot. Where was Nigeria when Ghana any about 300 plus soldiers to ivory coast or that of Mali? These are personal non US mission, it is not even ecowas assignment.

Well the main purpose of ecowas is to provide economic cooperation among members state and not millitary assistance . Some they overlap their job for security purposes.

Anyway, this is the amount Ghana has injected from her own end simply for security and we are not facing any insurgent here.

You’ve completely dodged or just mentally failed to get our point ret@rd. Nothing you’ve posted here contradicts or proves our statements wrong in any sort of way. SMH 🤦🏿‍♂️

GeneralDae:

This exaggeration about fighting Bokoharam for years is a fallacy. Bokoharam as a capable terrorist group capable of holding territory in a non guerrilla warfare only lasted from towards end of 2014 to around mid 2015. Since then their remnants have been fighting guerrilla warfare in Sambisa, recruiting from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon with their sponsors and network in all four countries.

Nigeria has a weak police force that was neglected for decades of military rule, but Bokoharam since then has required mostly civil intelligence gathering by police and non kinetic action.

We don't want war but we all know Ghana and other West African countries do not have the weapons. Nigeria has the weapons especially the best air force and naval force in the region but do not have the finance to waste on a war in Niger at this time.

Also, Nigeria would not want to destabilize Niger because of the many terrorists groups there.

Chest beating as always but don't forget that weapons alone dont win wars, you need intelligence and up-to-date skills as well

AskiaHarem:


Are you illiterate, didn’t read the articles, or just playing dumb?

It’s Niger that’s pushing hard for this dialogue; they even bothered making up an excuse for dodging the last.



False; the US/UN hasn’t sponsored an ECOWAS mission in any meaningful compacity since the 90s. The Gambia mission had zero was completely covered by Senegal and Nigeria financially & physically.

You seem to be projecting again. We’ve been over this. “Just because Ghana can’t doesn’t mean others in the region can’t”.

Meanwhile in Ghana…🙄

You don't know and that is why you're posting this nonsense....

Every mission of ECOWAS was financed by the US and UN. The hauling of Nigerian troops into every ECOWAS missions was financed by the UN and US including their pay.


See below.

NIGER.

ECOWAS leaders say the war in Niger will have a daily cost of $1 million. They have notified the US Government of this budget.

- Reuters have this report.

vankelvin:

Chest beating as always but don't forget that weapons alone dont win wars, you need intelligence and up-to-date skills as well

How Ghanaian ECOMOG Commander betrayed Sgt. Doe
By Benjamin NJOKU
The story of the Liberian civil war cannot be complete without references to Nigeria’s Major Gen. C.C. Iweze(rtd). Currently, a director with Multimesh Group, (a digital cable satellite pay-TV service provider, based in Port-Harcourt), Major-Gen. Iweze served as Chief of Staff of the West African Peace Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in 1990

Rather, I stated categorically that we were going to Liberia for peace enforcement operation. All the troops that made up the ECOMOG operation drawn from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra-Leone, Gambia and Guinea, believed that we were going to Liberia on a peace keeping operation . As a result, none of the soldiers was prepared to fight in Liberia.

Some even came there with a truck load of their civil party dresses. But I never believed we were in Liberia to make peace, following the fact that the enemy had vowed to destroy any ECOMOG troop that touched the soil of Liberia. And true to my prediction, the moment our foot touched Liberia, the rebels opened fire on us.


We managed to secure our flanks, moved forward and the rest is now history.

The operation
But one thing I noticed during this debacle was that it’s a dangerous decision to send officers who are in the infant stage of their career to a peace enforcement operation. When we arrived Monrovia, the Force Commander had no clue whatsoever about what we were to do in Liberia.

I remember that on a number of occasions, when I asked General Quainoo his plans in the event of the possible influx of refugees into the ECOMOG quarters, having been convinced that we would surely play host to some army of refugees, he was indifferent and ignored the need to put into consideration the possible influx of refugees into our base.

At that point, I couldn’t understand why a commander of a peace enforcement operation couldn’t envisage that in the theatre of war, the refugees usually seek protection in the camp of the troops. As the Chief of Staff, I gave instruction to the troops at designated areas to make adequate provision for the influx of refugees.

I remember that the Ghanaian government released some of their war-ships. Nigerian Navy also was on ground. At the headquartres of ECOMOG, there was this perception that the rebels would abandon their guns the moment the peace enforcement operation arrived in Liberia. But from my experience, I advised against taking the rebels for granted which the Force Commander, General Quainoo ignored.

Not withstanding the consistent threats and reports we were daily receiving concerning how Charles Taylor had boasted of destroying any ECOMOG troop that ventured into the Liberian soil, the Force Commander did not believe we were going to wage a war against the rebels. Under that kind of condition, I didn’t see how we were going to keep peace in Liberia.

In the first place, there was no peace to negotiate for . Therefore, I wondered how we were going to keep peace in a hostile environment.

Rather, I stated categorically that we were going to Liberia for peace enforcement operation. All the troops that made up the ECOMOG operation drawn from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra-Leone, Gambia and Guinea, believed that we were going to Liberia on a peace keeping operation . As a result, none of the soldiers was prepared to fight in Liberia.

Some even came there with a truck load of their civil party dresses. But I never believed we were in Liberia to make peace, following the fact that the enemy had vowed to destroy any ECOMOG troop that touched the soil of Liberia. And true to my prediction, the moment our foot touched Liberia, the rebels opened fire on us.

We managed to secure our flanks, moved forward and the rest is now history.

The operation
But one thing I noticed during this debacle was that it’s a dangerous decision to send officers who are in the infant stage of their career to a peace enforcement operation. When we arrived Monrovia, the Force Commander had no clue whatsoever about what we were to do in Liberia.

I remember that on a number of occasions, when I asked General Quainoo his plans in the event of the possible influx of refugees into the ECOMOG quarters, having been convinced that we would surely play host to some army of refugees, he was indifferent and ignored the need to put into consideration the possible influx of refugees into our base.

At that point, I couldn’t understand why a commander of a peace enforcement operation couldn’t envisage that in the theatre of war, the refugees usually seek protection in the camp of the troops. As the Chief of Staff, I gave instruction to the troops at designated areas to make adequate provision for the influx of refugees.

And again, true to my prediction, the refugees or better still, the displaced Liberians were the first set of people we encountered on arriving Free-port in Monrovia.

While we strove to advance forward, we had the refugees to cater for and protect. On arrival, the information available to us was that there was a standing cease-fire between Prince Johnson who was commanding the Independent National Patriotic Front (INPF) and Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia( NPFL), as well as Sgt. Samuel Doe, who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Strategically, we drafted the Nigerian troop to the East of Liberia, while the Sierra-Leonian troop was positioned at the centre and the Gambian troop was stationed to protect the headuarters of ECOMOG.

Also, the Guinean troop was drafted to the outskirts of Liberia, protecting the Supreme Head Quarters. After establishing a cease-fire, I initiated a peace move between Prince Johnson and President Doe, requiring each one of them to send a representative in form of liaison officers to open up a communication channel between the two forces.

So how was Doe killed?
The mediator then was Guinean Deputy Force Commander, Lamin Mangasouba. But while the peace move was still on course, Johnson formed the habit of visiting the head quarters regularly, pretending to be friendly.

I didn’t like the way he was frequenting the headquarters and I summoned him one day and warned against his coming to the head quarters with his men fully armed to the teeth. I insisted that he must leave his arms at the HQ’s main gate before attempting to gain entrance into the premises.

However, he pretended to have heard me and then climbed upstairs to see the Force Commander in his office. As soon as he left, I climbed upstairs too to brief the Commander of what transpired between myself and Prince Johnson.


But rather than seeing reasons with me, the Commander disappointedly told me how Johnson did not like the way I was blunt to him. I replied by saying ‘of course, I didn’t expect him to like it but for our safety, he must comply with my order.’

To my surprise again, the Commander told me that he had countered the order. I felt very bitter and disappointed as I made him understand that he was making us vulnerable . Hardly had we finished discussing when we heard a siren advancing towards the headquartres.

And when I looked through the window, I saw series of assorted cars led by a Limousine, decorated with the Liberian flag and that of the Armed Forces of Liberia. I told the Commander that the August visitor must be President Samuel Doe and suggested that he remained in his office while I went downstairs to receive him.

There and then, I rushed downstairs to receive President Doe but the Commander would not listen and he surprisingly followed me downstairs to receive the President. Protocol demanded that I should be the one that would have ushered the visitor into the Commander’s office.

But this was not so in this case. The Commander decided to come down and receive the visitor by himself. At that point, there was nothing I could do, other than to join him in ushering the President and members of his cabinet into the Commander’s office.

The Cabinet members were later moved into the Deputy Commander’s office, while President Doe was kept in the Commander’s office. At the Commander’s office, the President berated the Commander, fuming that he desired to be paid a homage by the troops as the President of Liberia, no matter the situation. But as the Commander was trying to apologise to him, he heard another siren advancing towards the headquarters again.

And before he knew what was happening, it was Prince Johnson and his men who had returned to the headquarters. Sensing danger, I advised that the Commandant should remain with the President in his office while I went downstairs to confront Prince Johnson to leave the headquartres or remain outside the quarters with his armed boys.

But by the time I got downstairs, Prince Johnson had already gained access into the headquarters and was giving me option that I must tell Sgt. Doe to join the Ghanaian ship and leave Liberia immediately for peace to return to the country.

I cautioned him and insisted that it was not for him to tell us what to do with the President. I commanded him to leave the headquarters immediately with his troop. As he was attempting to go out, we started hearing continuous gunshots. That was Prince Johnson’s men killing the security operatives that came with Sgt. Doe.

What happened? One of the security guys asked to the hearing of Prince Johnson’s troops, “What are these rebels doing here?â€

KILLING OF SAMUEL DOE
In response, one of Prince Johnson’s men challenged him and before we knew what was happening, he opened fire on them, killing all the security operatives. That was the fire that led to the capturing and killing of Samuel Doe. So, while the firing was going on, I commanded Johnson to leave the headquarters immediately.

But the firing was worsened. In the midst of the confusion, I went upstairs to see the Commandant. But lo, he was nowhere to be found. He had escaped to the ship.

Doe was left alone in his office. At that point , I told Doe, “Look, discretion is a better part of valour . Let me take you to the ship so that you remain there until this raging fire is quenched.†But he turned down my appeal and rather demanded that I should give him some troops to escort him back to the executive mansion.

But already, I was aware that an ambush had been laid for him. So if I had yielded to his request, they would have killed both Doe and the troops. While the commotion was going on, the Commandant had disappeared into thin air.

I looked for him to persuade Sgt Doe to listen to the voice of reason but he was nowhere to be found, and Doe wouldn’t listen.


As I returned to the office to lock up the door, one of Prince Johnson’s boys called Rambo traced me to the Commandant’s office where he spotted Sgt. Doe and shouted “He’s inside the office. He’s inside the office.â€

The shout attracted Prince Johnson who returned to the Commandant’s office. But I couldn’t let him gain access to the office as I quickly shut the door and stood behind it and ordered Prince Johnson’s boy Rambo to leave the place.

There and then, he opened fire around me to scare me away but I stood my ground as I continued to command both Johnson and his boys to leave the place. At a point, something occurred to me. I started asking myself who I was protecting, whether it was Sgt. Doe who had shed a lot of blood and who in the early hours of that fateful day, slaughtered many Liberians? Whether he was worth dying for?

That was how I left him at the mercy of Prince Johnson and his men. Johnson went into the office and fired at his two legs. He advanced to the Deputy Commandant’s office and also killed all the members of Doe’s cabinet who came with him to the headquarters. Later, he dragged wounded Doe outside the place and began to jubilate that he had captured the President. But somehow, somebody accidentally touched the President’s limousine car and the siren went off.






And I was left with no option than to find out the whereabouts of the Commander in order to brief him and consequently obtain order from him to deploy troops to go and rescue Sgt. Doe from the hands of his captors.

Disappointedly, when I finally found him, he was coming out from the Ghanaian ship where he went to take cover. I saluted him and followed him to his office where I briefed him on what happened and asked for his permission to deploy troops to go and rescue Sgt. Doe. I told him it would be scandalous on our part to have allowed such massive killings to happen within the ECOMOG territory. But he was not interested in my opinion or listening to what I had to say.

Rather, he was concerned about taking photographs of the corpses that littered the place. He asked me to wait for him in his office. When he had finished taking the photographs, he returned to his office and out of fear, he nearly screamed when he sighted me in the office muttering, “You nearly scared me, you know†.

And I said to him “So sorry, sir. I didn’t mean to scare you but at this moment, we need a decision to go ahead and rescue Sgt. Doe from Johnson and his men’. He was not interested in what I had to say. Instead, he was busy gathering his personal effects and handing them over to his boys who were taking them to the Ghanaian war ship in waiting.

The next instruction he gave to me was to summon a conference of Commanders. I thought he was going to give the instruction by himself but it was not to be. While the Commanders converged, he told them he was on his way to Sierra-Leone from where he would proceed to Gambia to see the Chairman of ECOWAS, who then was the President of Gambia, Dauda Jawara.

He told us that we had no business remaining in Liberia anymore and he handed down an instruction to me to tell anybody that asked of him anything I deemed like telling the person.

I couldn’t believe my ears. Before we knew it, he had entered the ship and left for Sierra-Leone. I had to summon the troops. I told them that I was not prepared to take this nonsense from Prince Johnson and his men.



Deal That Killed Doe
On reflection, one wondered how Prince Johnson got to know that Sgt. Doe was coming to the ECOMOG headquartres that fateful day. Immediately after he had seen and discussed with the Commander, General Quanioo, a deal must have been struck between them.

The two liaison officers we established as a channel of communication between President Doe and Prince Johnson, the one representing Johnson’s interest must have gone to inform him that Sgt. Doe was coming to the ECOMOG headquarters that fateful day.

And again, with Johnson’s visit to General Quanioo on that same day, I strongly believe that a deal must have been struck between the Force Commander and the rebel because later on, we discovered that two container loads of items were in the Ghanaian ship to be moved to Ghana. And that created another problem for us in Liberia.

Johnson’s Atrocities
The second incident was that when we arrived Liberia, he quickly established a refugees’ camp but not in the presence of the Commander. Prince Johnson would invade the camp and capture some beautiful women among whom he took away to his base.

The most annoying thing was that he, Prince Johnson, approached the unit commander, requesting us to release some arms for him to attack President Doe then. But I rejected his request. At that moment, the unit commander betrayed us by going to tell Prince Johnson that he had wanted to release some arms to him but Nigerians wouldn’t allow him to do so.

Ordinarily, the Ghanaian troop had enough arms. If the Commander had wanted to release some arms to the rebels, he could have  instructed the Ghanaian troop to release them to Johnson . But he wanted to indict Nigerians .

That was why he came to us. The implication is that if you give a rebel your arms, he would later turn the arms against you.

The fact that the Commander told Johnson that it was the Nigerian troop that had refused to release their arms to him made Johnson ambush and capture the Nigerian soldiers and took them to his base. When I heard about his action, I was infuriated and had to drive down to his base where I pulled out my hand grenade and ordered Johnson to release my men or the two of us would die instantly.

Out of fear, Johnson ran to his house but I followed him closely, threatening to blow up the grenade before he started shouting out, “Release them, release them.†I did not only have him release Nigerian troops, I also recovered our four lorries he confiscated. That was how I got our troops captured by Prince Johnson released.

All this time, Gen. Quanioo had disappeared into thin air. I was the only officer who was spearheading and taking decisions on behalf of the operation until General Dogonyaro was appointed to succeed Gen.

Indeed, I remember a situation where we were to move from Sierra-Leone to Liberia. I was the most senior officer in the headquartres then, and by the virtue of my rank, I was supposed to have become the Deputy

That’s one aspect of peace keeping operation that bedeviles a situation where different countries contribute troops. The officers find it difficult to take instructions from any other senior that’s not from their home country.

Also, distrust is another factor that trailed the operation. Each time, I gave an instruction to deploy troops. Such instruction was never obeyed until an approval was sought for and gotten from the troops’ various home countries.

More appalling was when the Nigerian Air Force was sent on a bombing run, under the Joint Command. The Ghanaian Air Force failed to comply until clearance was given from the home government. Those were parts of the problems we faced while we were in Liberia.

Mission To Somalia
Also, I recall as part of my military exploits when I went to receive the corpses of eight Nigerian contingent to the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission who were killed in a clash with supporters of Somali warlord, Mohammed Farah Aidid. I was also to give the nation’s position on the killings of these soldiers to the Commander of the United Nations Forces in Somalia.

As a matter of fact, I found the killing of these soldiers totally unacceptable to the Nigerian Army.
At that time, no Nigerian military officer was ready to go to Somalia to receive the corpses of these fallen soldiers.

But I opted to undertake the venture as the Chief of Operations then. When I got to Mogadishu, I had discussions with the United Nations Enforcement Commander and later, retrieved the dead bodies of our fallen soldiers.

One thing happened



The ECOMOG headquartres then was occupied by merestaff officers. And around the HQ, we had the Gambian troops who were stationed to protect the HQ from external attack, though they were not all that experienced and the country’s army at that time was made up

If the troop stationed at the HQ had tried to counter the crossfire, it would have been total massacre. My plans then was if the Commander had obliged me to deploy troops to rescue Sgt. Doe, I would have asked the nearest troop to the HQ , which was the Nigerian troop, to move in and rescue Sgt. Doe from the stronghold of Johnson.

But if I had taken the initiative to deploy troops and in the cause of that action, any troop recorded casualties, the Commander would blame me for illegally deploying troops. That was my fear and why we could not counter the crossfire immediately.

Taylor Killed Ngerians
At this stage of the Peace Keeping Operation, Nigeria recorded many casualties. Was that true?

I must state here that a lot of casualties were not recorded by Nigeria at the early stage of the operation. But it was after we started advancing towards Charles Taylor’s territory that we started suffering casualties.

And before our arrival in Monrovia, Charles Taylor and his men had invaded the Nigerian House and killed a lot of our nationals resident in Liberia. It was not about killing Nigerian soldiers but basically, it was about killing Nigerian citizens who were based in Liberia at the time the war broke out.

And again, during that period, we asked so many Nigerians in that country to return home. But they would not listen to us because according to our findings, most of them were married to Liberian women and had children and established businesses.

They did not believe that Charles Taylor would have anything to do with them. But being a rebel, he invaded the Nigerian House and killed innocent Nigerians who had run there for safety.

That brings us to the asylum that was granted to Charles Taylor by the Obasanjo’s administration. Was it a right step to have taken by the government?

I do not know what transpired within the government axis regarding the asylum that was granted Charles Taylor in Nigeria. I cannot say whether it was deliberately done to lure him to be captured. But information available to me was that Charles Taylor should not have been granted asylum in Nigeria at all.

Eventually, it facilitated his capture.

Peace Keeping Is Important
Do you think it’s still relevant for Nigeria to continue to contribute troops for peace keeping operations?
Yes! I think it’s still relevant. Nigeria has been contributing troops to peace keeping operations overseas.






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Just40:
You don't know and that is why you're posting this nonsense....

Every mission of ECOWAS was financed by the US and UN. The hauling of Nigerian troops into every ECOWAS missions was financed by the UN and US including their pay.


See below.

NIGER.

ECOWAS leaders say the war in Niger will have a daily cost of $1 million. They have notified the US Government of this budget.

- Reuters have this report.

Can you show evidence of UN or US sponsoring the Gambian mission?

There was no war in the Gambia, just coercion. I'm not saying coercion would be enough for Niger, since Gambia's case is different but while US and UN could have supported ECOWAS mission to coerce Yayah Jammeh, they didn't need to provide funding for Senegal to enter Gambia with soilders or for Nigerian Airforce to fly over Gambia or even Nigerian Navy to move around Gambia (if they wanted).

If you have evidence UN and US provided funding in 2017 for Nigeria and Senegal to do this, please share.

GeneralDae:

Can you show evidence of UN or US sponsoring the Gambian mission?

There was no war in the Gambia, just coercion. I'm not saying coercion would be enough for Niger, since Gambia's case is different but while US and UN could have supported ECOWAS mission to coerce Yayah Jammeh, they didn't need to provide funding for Senegal to enter Gambia with soilders or for Nigerian Airforce to fly over Gambia or even Nigerian Navy to move around Gambia (if they wanted).

If you have evidence UN and US provided funding in 2017 for Nigeria and Senegal to do this, please share.

Read the post you just replied , you'll see ECOWAS even today begging for the US and UN to finance their 1 million a day expenditure to carry out a Mission in Niger...

I've already given you evidence from Liberia where all the vehicle used by Ecomog came from the UN

Just40:
Read the post you just replied , you'll see ECOWAS even today begging for the US and UN to finance their 1 million a day expenditure to carry out a Mission in Niger...

I've already given you evidence from Liberia where all the vehicle used by Ecomog came from the UN

Any source to back this your purported claim of 1 million dollar a day?