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Why did they not fly them from wherever it was they were coming from only for them to fly thier dead bodies. Death we know is inevitable but who knows we could have avioded this if they had been flown, at least give them an honorable home coming.

In all, God knows best.

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I think the issue we are missing here is,why were they not flown to their various destination.Then the other issue being road.Government should establish a committee to check on roads and some life threaning matters(since they claim they have awarded the contract , but was unble to finish).

and our peace keepers keep dying all the time.soom we'll ve no peace keepers

olrotimi:
and our peace keepers keep dying all the time.soom we'll ve no peace keepers

What i can't get my head round is the fact that we are busy keeping peace all over Africa

And yet, there is no peace in our own backyard, we cant simply keep them at home!!!

big brothers go hungry cleaning their small brothers panties.

Escaping war to die returning home as a result of an avoidable error.

Imagine that.

Mr. President is moving on a slow pace and is tackling issues one after the other but , l hope this gets his attention

They should have been flown to Maid airport anyways, this horrible accident would have been averted

This are United Nations ambassadors FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

Bless their souls

amaechijay:
Escaping war to die returning home as a result of an avoidable error.

Imagine that.

POINT OF CORRECTION: Soldiers dont escape war but they fight in it!
And the dead soldiers were never escaping any war!

may their soul rest in peace

Whey Papa God wetin dey happen for our land?
just imagin the famillies' grief

Na papa God dey maintain our roads?

Abi na papa God say make all of us dey corrupt and to waste money instead maintaining proper infrastructure?

I am sick of hearing Nigerians appeal to God when they constantly mess things up themselves. If a student wants to sit an exam without studying, he will fail and he should not ask God why he failed. He should ask himself why he did not prepare

blatant you are realy BLATANT!!

nice point any way

Nigeria is a very funny country. Those soldiers were travelling all the way from Lagos to Maiduguri by road after returning from UN peace keeping, na wa o. What is the Air force C-130 Hercules aircraft meant for?? Is it not for conveying troops and their equipments? The same C-130 aircraft now functions as a plane for conveying corpses. How can soldiers from a barracks in Borno state return back from a UN mission in Sudan and are dropped in Lagos airport by a UN transport plane only for them to be asked by the Nigerian Military to travel in a convoy of military trucks from Lagos to Borno state?? I still ask, what is the function of the Air force C-130 transport aircraft? Is it for movement of troops or for movement of corpses?? The same plane that our military refused to use in flying these soldiers to Maiduguri airport was the same plane they used in flying their dead bodies to Abuja for burial.

The Chief of Defence staff, Chief of Army staff and Chief of Air staff should be held responsible for the death of these soldiers.

r.i.p

Taito007:
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I think the issue we are missing here is,why were they not flown to their various destination.Then the other issue being road.Government should establish a committee to check on roads and some life threaning matters(since they claim they have awarded the contract , but was unble to finish).

are u not tired of committee after committee,

Things like these occurences are what brings tears to my eyes as a Nigerian!these men of honour after doing their Nation proud in far away dafur,Sudan and coming back home as heroes surviving a war!only for them to meet their untimely death that could have been avoidable in a road mishap!!!i weep for this country,but the battle has just began and the fight to re discover ourselves in National progression is what its about.May their gentle soul rest inpeace and prayt their families are duely and well compensated.

odada:
Things like these occurences are what brings tears to my eyes as a Nigerian!these men of honour after doing their Nation proud in far away dafur,Sudan and coming back home as heroes surviving a war!only for them to meet their untimely death that could have been avoidable in a road mishap!!!i weep for this country,but the battle has just began and the fight to re discover ourselves in National progression is what its about.May their gentle soul rest inpeace and prayt their families are duely and well compensated.

P/z tears no more, they paid the price for infecting innocent Dafur teenage girls with HIV, bad behaviour dirty Nigeria soldiers are known for.

Death is always a sad one, even that of an enemy.
But are we talking of soldiers that drive like VIP Escort drivers and Bullion Van Drivers?
The same group of people that drive like it's them and chickens on our roads?

Rhea:
Death is always a sad one, even that of an enemy.

Ja Death is a sad thing even that of an enemy, But not the death of Nigeria dirty rapist HIV infected Soldiers,

willy*2:
Ja Death is a sad thing even that of an enemy, But not the death of Nigeria dirty rapist HIV infected Soldiers,

Now thats what I call careless generalisation

willy*2:
P/z tears no more, they paid the price for infecting innocent Dafur teenage girls with HIV, bad behaviour dirty Nigeria soldiers are known for.

@ Willy or what is that your name, this forum is strictly 4 men and not boys, human live is what we are talking about here. i guess ur feelings are dead,

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i mourn with them too but i am still asking myself some question,
why here in nigeria
is it that these soldiers have some information with them that led to their death.
is it that Dafur wanted to hide somethings from our government.
i strongly beleive something happen that had been covered up by their death,
i hope nigerian army is learning from these so called peace keeping operation
in the neighbouring african coast.

ogbon:
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i mourn with them too but i am still asking myself some question,
why here in nigeria
is it that these soldiers have some information with them that led to their death.
is it that Dafur wanted to hide somethings from our government.
i strongly beleive something happen that had been covered up by their death,
i hope nigerian army is learning from these so called peace keeping operation
in the neighbouring african coast.

hmm!which kain conspiracy are u spinning!!

So sad; may their souls rest in prefect peace.

To get to the top hierachy in the military, alotta things happen.

it's bloodier (or is't dirtier?) than politics, so there 's no reason not to smell a rat

Some times the way these soldiers speed on the road its amazing how they have not all died on the road like I always say instead of a reckless driver to take the life of an innocent man on the road let the drivers life be exchanged for the innocent man.Anyway I still sympatize wit all them loved ones left behind when it comes to death no reason is justified.And our govt wont even try to better the road o they will just sign condolence register and promise3 big money to the family yet the cash most of these govt guys spend on their sugar girls in abuja is sufficient to buy emergency rescue facilities and rehabilitate roads.

Soldiers’ riot is dangerous
By Adebolu Arowolo

Whether in peacetime or war situation, a nation’s army has an important role to play. A nation is only so in name and can be annexed or wiped off the world map if it cannot defend itself against external aggression or internal insurgency and implosion. It is therefore not surprising that the most important assignment given to the Nigerian military by the 1999 Constitution is that of “defending Nigeria from external aggression.” The armed forces are also expected to maintain the nation’s territorial integrity and secure its borders from violation on land, sea or air. The military is the main apparatus of coercion relied upon by the President to suppress insurrection or rebellion. The military is the backbone of the political power exercised by the Commander-in-Chief.


There are well-founded fears, however, that the nation’s Army is being assailed and crippled by payroll fraud and other forms of official graft. With the rapid evaporation of esprit de corps and group loyalty, there are indications that the army’s combat readiness may have been stymied by rampant venality. Such sad signals came very early in the life of this administration.

I remember how a military attaché to the Nigerian embassy in India was caught with $2m cash in his briefcase in May 2007. The Indian Income Tax officials who arrested him as he was preparing to board an early morning flight from New Delhi to Lagos said the Defense Advisor, Captain G.A. Ojedokun, could not explain the source of the huge cash found on him. The money was seized and the Nigerian diplomat was released after being accused of money laundering. Many international newspapers reported the case and that further tarred the nation’s image.

I recall that President Umaru Yar’Adua ordered an immediate probe of the scandal. But more than one year after the case came to public knowledge, the official has not been brought to justice. He may never be given the opportunity to clear his name as the government makes feeble attempts to deal with scores of more egregious cases of flagrant abuse of public office in the military and elsewhere.

Only last week, soldiers in Owena Barracks of the 323 Artillery Regiment of the Nigerian Army went on rampage. Hundreds of soldiers chanting abusive songs against their superior officers trooped out of their barracks to protest alleged illegal deductions from their peacekeeping allowances. The demonstration was so violent that the soldiers set fires on the road with disused tires, preventing motorists from moving in and out of Akure for several hours. Reports said they later took the demonstration back to the barracks, where the Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. Gabriel Omelo and other senior officers, were held hostage by the irate soldiers.

For many months and in most of the barracks across the nation, soldiers have been complaining about being shortchanged by the military authorities in the payment of peacekeeping allowances. Soldiers who have gone on peacekeeping operations allege that the United Nations and the African Union pay $600 and $400 respectively per month to every soldier on peace mission. But the Army authorities have illegally reduced the pay to $150 and $100 for UN and AU operations respectively. If this allegation is true, it means every soldier on UN peacekeeping operation loses $450 dollars monthly, while the one on AU mission loses $300 monthly.

When the military authorities started this expensive prank, they said the deductions were being saved and that the balance would be fully paid upon the peacekeeper’s return to the country. Now many batches of soldiers have returned to Nigeria from peace-keeping operations, only to discover that they may have been ripped off by their bosses.

Recently, 46 peacekeepers who had just returned from Sudan perished in a road crash. Questions have been raised as to why those soldiers were made to travel on road when they could have traveled by air. Have their relations been paid their full peacekeeping allowances and other terminal benefits? Has the Defense Ministry investigated the possibility of sabotage in the road crash? Was the crash connected with any plan to embezzle the allowances of the deceased officers?

The Nigerian soldier is enduring a lot of privation and oppression. We are all familiar with the agony of military pensioners whose terminal allowances have been mismanaged or stolen. Many retired soldiers have died in misery as a few officers enrich themselves with the terminal benefits of others. Soldiers live in dilapidated and decrepit barracks. From their meager salary, soldiers buy their own uniform and boots. Apart from the mindless looting of peacekeepers’ allowances, salaries are now being stolen by military pen robbers.

Many have not forgotten the Rukuba Barracks showdown early this year, when disgruntled soldiers protesting the non-implementation of a government-approved salary scale booed the Chief of Army Staff. There was also a major breakdown of military discipline at the Ojo Cantonment in Lagos, when the former Director of Administration and Finance, Gen. O. Lartey’s speech was openly jeered and sneered at. The failure by the army authorities to implement the new minimum wage and for which N100bn had been set aside by the government in 2007, became a major embarrassment early in the year when a group of serving majors wrote the President complaining about how “thieving Generals” were “stealing our salaries and allowances.”

After mismanaging the Army’s finances without any repercussion, the rapacious officers descended on the armoury and looted it. The nation suddenly woke up to discover that some top shots in the Army had been making their millions by selling the nation’s weapons to the militants in the Niger Delta.

In the hands of those who control it, the Nigerian State remains a potent tool for acquiring obscene wealth. The Army is not different from other institutions that have been raped and crippled by those who control them. We may never get to the root of the rampant corruption in the army and the culprits may go unpunished because of the thick cloud of secrecy that envelops its administrative and financial operations. Open and comprehensive investigations are never allowed for “security reasons.”

When the reports on illegal sale of the nation’s arms and ammunition became public knowledge many months ago, I did not expect that anybody would be punished. And so far, I have not been disappointed. The leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Henry Okah, is being tried secretly for gun running and other offences because the government feels that an open trial might expose ‘the big men’ and top brass of the military who transacted the illicit deal with Okah. I think the morally bankrupt politician is also afraid that any comprehensive probe of the Army may provoke a coup. With the riot in Akure, the decay in the Army has reached a dangerous level. I hope President Yar’Adua will see the need for urgent action

The soldiers always overspeed and drive dangerously forgeting that any thing ca happen. I don`t know if that accident was a suicide.

This probably are the men whose photos are been circulated lately.

A7:
This probably are the men whose photos are been circulated lately.

Where are the pics? The army must have warned them about exposing them!
No way those pictures would not have been on the net if that is where it came from.
Very intresting....

biafranqueen:
Where are the pics? The army must have warned them about exposing them!

Have no idea what this means

A7:
Have no idea what this means

Of course it is a diversion tactic. Those pics were not suppose to be leaked.
This is not 1983 it is hard to get away with such things in this digital age.