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The Nigerian army lacks the capacity to maintain peace in the already conquered areas, the war in the north is likely going to last for the next 50years.

seunlly:
OK boss.
U know he wrote that 2011. The question is; is he still against fighting them(BH)

Why will any sane human being say that in 2013 , least a man who wants to be the President of the country. His likes were the ones who gave BH tacit support to become the monsters that can't be leashed by their masters.

Rad1cal:
Why will any sane human being say that in 2013 , lest a man who wants to be the President of the country. His likes were the ones who gave BH tacit support to become the monsters that can't be leashed by their masters.

So BH can never be defeated if buhari still remain in power.

seunlly:
So BH can never be defeated if buhari still remain in power.

I hope and prays he defeats those monsters for the benefit of all. The war is still ongoing.

Rad1cal:
I hope and prays he defeats those monsters for the benefit of all. The war is still ongoing.

I now clearly understand what u are saying.


If he had known he will become the president he wouldn't have try such a thing.

this is what I call the army of darkness, nd u guys wont believe that, a time would come when the other ranks would rise up against the officers, that day would be bloody, because of the mentality of the officers, treating the other ranks as slaves and bullying and subjecting them to all forms of treatment. any way i blame the British for instilling this type of ideology into the Nigerian military, when you see an Ethiopian soldier and officers, or Kenya or other African militaries watch the officers and other ranks relationship u wld pity our Nigerian army. an army were u have to provide your own personal kits, an army where a riffle has more value than a soldiers life, an army where your entitlement are being embezzled by the top commanders, well if u haven't noticed that yet then u wld never know.

walemoney007:
you should educate yourself mumu,or you can come and educate me at the 174 batallion in odoguyan,thats where i am right now mumu.
some brigade are been commanded by colonwls in the north east

What does your being at 174 Battalion have to do with anything ?

Sir, please take time to review what you are typing and not let your emotions take over.

The minimum requirement to hold the post of a Brigade Commander is being a Brigadier General; Brigade - Brigadier, you see the similarity.

You keep making reference to the NE theatre; I have to ask, how many Brigades are stationed there, since you seem well acquainted with the terrain ? Why not bring examples from other parts of the country ? Even if your assertion is right, the NE theatre is an area under siege and things done there might not follow the best known practices.


It would interest you to know that some Battalions in the NE are said to have strength of less than 300 people, and this is less than 1/3 of what should be obtainable for a standard Battalion. Does that make it a worthy example to prove your point ?


Units such as 174 and 149 Battalion are commanded by Lt. Col or lower; a Captain was once Acting C.O. of 149 Battalion. Captain not even a Major.


Unlike you, I do not just stay in a Barracks but I am/was in the system. So before you get on your high horses and start feeling fly, do a little research and save yourself the embarrasment of being schooled like a 7 year old.

Get off my mention while at it.

Danke !

KillJoy62:
an army were u have to provide your own personal kits, an army where a riffle has more value than a soldiers life, an army where your entitlement are being embezzled by the top commanders,

Very sad my brother. Lets hope that the future would be better..

What the army needs right now in house cleansing or purging of corrupt officers and bad leaders. I would advice they meet jj rawlings for advice on in house cleaning only then can the Nigeria army prosper and grow

nwaanambra1, NoWorries7, AFRICQA, Texazzpete.
can you come and explain this. You claim to know better than those that have been to Sambisa.

Akpan107:
In 2013, the then National Leader for the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, heavily criticized the declaration of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.

Speaking at a Hausa program in Kaduna, he said the government's offensive against the Boko Haram Islamic sect was a grave injustice against the North.

He said the Federal Government gave special treatment to the Niger Delta militants by granting them amnesty, but the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses destroyed.

He said President Goodluck Jonathan had failed from the outset in addressing the problem of security in Nigeria. He observed that the security challenge in Nigeria began with the Niger Delta area, when politicians, trying to retain their positions, recruited youths and armed them to help them win elections through sheer brute force.

Buhari said, “What is responsible for the security situation in the country was caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants.

“Every Nigerian that is familiar with what happened knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all. What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections, so they recruited the youths and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force.

“After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns, the boys refused to return the guns. Because of that, the allowance that was being given to the youths by the governors during that time was stopped.

“The youths resorted to kidnapping oil workers and were collecting dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18 to 20 years was getting about $500 in a week, why will he go to school and spend 20 years to study and then come back and get employed by government to be paid N100,000 a month; that is if he is lucky to get employment?

“So kidnapping became very rampant in the south-south and the south-east. They kidnapped people and were collecting money.

“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf, started his militancy and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.

“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.

“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today.

“You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua sent an airplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty.

“They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north are being killed and their houses demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice.”

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Source: #ThisDayLive
Dated: June 3rd, 2013

yet some pipul think buari is not a boko supporter
history will judge d dullard.

balanceofterror1:
nwaanambra1, NoWorries7, AFRICQA, Texazzpete.
can you come and explain this. You claim to know better than those that have been to Sambisa.

Easy explanation. You are becoming senile.

Because how else will you conflate two separate discussions together? We had a disagreement on the comparison of weapon sophistication between boko haram and the Nigerian army and you're here mentioning my name in a story of some army men complaining about 'mistreatment'.

Tragic that I cannot post merrily on this site without being assailed by nitwits.

texazzpete:
Easy explanation. You are becoming senile.

Because how else will you conflate two separate discussions together? We had a disagreement on the comparison of weapon sophistication between boko haram and the Nigerian army and you're here mentioning my name in a story of some army men complaining about 'mistreatment'.

Tragic that I cannot post merrily on this site without being assailed by nitwits.

What and what do you think will be regarded or constitute as mistreatment in the army?.

balanceofterror1:
What and what do you think will be regarded or constitute as mistreatment in the army?.

Salaries? Feeding? Lack of adequate rotation? Presumed poor strategy or leadership? Conflicting commands that troops feel unnecessarily puts them in danger?

This isn't rocket science.

texazzpete:
Salaries? Feeding? Lack of adequate rotation? Presumed poor strategy or leadership? Conflicting commands that troops feel unnecessarily puts them in danger?

This isn't rocket science.

Above all, nothing pains a soldier in war from than; Not giving him food, Not giving him modernized equipments to face the enemy, giving him wrong information or revealing his secrets and strategies to the enemy. Some Northern Soldiers and elites are guilty here. They are either moles in the NA or BH sympathisers.

darknetcom:
stop encouraging them to be soft..we need them to follow orders no matter the conditions..

you think other armies have better conditions??..

When you have relatives especially very close one there, you will really understand it more.

annayawchee:
Amen!! But the last time i checked nobody forced them to join the military, they are out there dying in mass in a crisis they know nothing about while the instigators of the crisis are living in affluence.... Rubbish

What's exactly is wrong with you?
If soldiers were not deployed there? Wouldn't it have escalated to your side even killing you? Or robbers and kidnappers and other criminals should be left without being dealt with, at least they security officials know nothing about that too. Reason well now. You ought to be more than this.