Odunayaw:
If this is true, what then is Buratai gallivanting about for.

Read my compatriots
https://www.thecable.ng/investigation-soldiers-fighting-boko-haram-beg-food-sleep-classrooms

Odunayaw:
If this is true, what then is Buratai gallivanting about for.

Read my compatriots
https://www.thecable.ng/investigation-soldiers-fighting-boko-haram-beg-food-sleep-classrooms

Odunayaw:
If this is true, what then is Buratai gallivanting about for.

Read my compatriots
https://www.thecable.ng/investigation-soldiers-fighting-boko-haram-beg-food-sleep-classrooms

frumentius:


If even 1% of this is remotely true, profoundly sad and disheartening.
Never mind strategic questions like how an entire battalion can just be converted to SF, or tactical questions about battalion indirect fires, do grunts really have to pay for their uniforms? And why are soldiers' salaries given to commanders to disburse, instead of deposited directly from DHQ into a soldier's bank account?

If any of the stuff I've just read in that article bears any semblance to reality, my respect for my fellow comrades in arms in the NA increases 100-fold for all they have to endure while taking the uniform.

jpphilips:


Sadique Abubakar has money to commission buildings monthly but Burantai keeps his soldiers in dormitories, if you can't adapt to troop ambush, cant adapt to outpost attacks, cant adapt to suicide bombings, cant even provide welfare, imagine NA not yet on IPPS while Navy and Airforce are.
Can someone give me two reasons why Burantai is still keeping his job?

doziex:
No be today way Nigerian army start this dog eat dog corruption.

I was hoping that PMB as he promised during the campaign, will bring this sort of official impunity to an end.

But really the emperor has no clothes. Bihari delegates, and turns a blind eye to the results.

General Buratai is the biggest disappointment. Oga Spartacus, how many houses you one buy ?

In Liberia, they budgeted billions usd, and short changed the troops.

2 mi-24 attack helicopters could have put Taylor out of business, but no Na sacrificed thousands of troops instead.

The same in Sierra Leone .billions was spent, but soldiers were extremely under equipped.

This is an abomination. It's akin to a mother that steals food from her babies. This is unacceptable everywhere but in the Nigerian armed forces.

Nigerians wake up to the injustice being perpetrated in your name. For the day of reckoning comets. And ignorance would not suffice as an excuse

Odunayaw:
If this is true, what then is Buratai gallivanting about for.

Read my compatriots
https://www.thecable.ng/investigation-soldiers-fighting-boko-haram-beg-food-sleep-classrooms

allexpensive:


I'm surprised with alot here. The issue of wearing sandals to the front line is never the issue of the military command but a choice by an individual. I don't know much about the but the NAF has a good accommodation for us here.

I have some issues with some soldiers thinking they're SF while they're not. What happened is some have basic SF training but if you don't complete the required training, the military command does not see you as a special force officer. The training is to allow you adapt very quick to coin.

The post has some truth in it but then, I have several objections.

The army should take but and make corrections where neccesary.

Odunayaw:
My Goodness I literally tasted utter disgust while reading it. Never mind the bollocks about Bn, i have mentioned twice here that these ones are understaffed (I vividly sighted 111SF Bn as having less than 190 men)
The part of allowance I can testify cause I have an acquaintance in theatre.
As for the uniform parts I thought it ended with the last administration

In all I wish its not entirely true but if it is I am not entirely surprised because from time immemorial its been a "crime" to be Other ranks in the Army.

frumentius:


We in the SANDF have our problems, like any military. I'm just perplexed that the same issues come up with the NA for a decade now without seemingly any resolution. And it seems mostly endemic to the one arm of service. We had Nigerian Navy, Air Force and Army pax at courses in SA - when I was coming up the ranks, complaining of similar issues. 10 years later, it's only the Army guys still complaining of the very same issues. The other services guys still complain of course - all militaries have problems - but the issues of which they complain have changed. Indicating progress.

I once asked a question here and the other thread about why the Nigerian military - which has more soldiers than the SANDF - doesn't employ the 1:3 deployment ratio for a year which is the general standard we employ.
1 soldier on deployment; 1 on R&R; 1 on courses; 1 on training for deployment. All I got was obfuscation, insults and braggadocio that Nigeria was fighting a real war and soldiers' welfare is something only peacetime militaries can afford.

Never mind all the science that soldiers' effectiveness deteriorates after 12 months on the field.

allexpensive:


I'm surprised with alot here. The issue of wearing sandals to the front line is never the issue of the military command but a choice by an individual. I don't know much about the but the NAF has a good accommodation for us here.

I have some issues with some soldiers thinking they're SF while they're not. What happened is some have basic SF training but if you don't complete the required training, the military command does not see you as a special force officer. The training is to allow you adapt very quick to coin.

The post has some truth in it but then, I have several objections.

The army should take but and make corrections where neccesary.

Odunayaw:
I remember vividly the brouhaha on the deployment time.

Little things the Army overlooks that dampen morale,more often than expected they play to the gallery.

frumentius:


I lost it at the time cos all the respondents were civilians pontificating on soldiers' welfare from their armchairs. Hell, dunderheads were saying 2-4 year deployments were nothing cos that's what soldiers signed for!
Odunayo, still keen on taking on the uniform?
Hope so. I always encourage youngsters throughout the continent with your mindset. It's the only way our militaries will improve.

ugo4u:

Oga I love the Airforce/Army i de straight forward, since my undergrad days i've being preparing mentally, physically and otherwise for the job but we don wait sote we don de loose weight.... Nigerian army disappoint us, imagine since 2016 the army has'nt carried out new commissioning for officers, na so we wan take fill up the gap in the highly undermanned military? even the once that are commissioned self is based on man know man, then what is the hope of ordinary Nigerians like us that don't know anybody? I personally would want to serve in the Airforce/Army even without pay sef as long as i have something to eat i'm good to go but who send me. NAF sef have tried because they've conducted both recruitment and commissioning consistently for the past three years save for 2018. Gaskiya this country no dey give person hope last last i fit port go join US army, to put hope for NA form person go grow dada for teeth.

frumentius:


Few years ago all the middle class youngsters interested in a military career I knew who couldn't get into the Navy and Air Force were going to the UK, Israel, US, Canadian and Australian militaries for mainly 2 reasons. They mistakenly perceived the SANDF to have no place for them because of their white skins. Secondarily because they thought no action in the SANDF. Then Battle of Bangui happened. And FIB in DRC. Now they realise they'll see action in the SANDF and parlay that experience into opportunities elsewhere and also progress within the SANDF as the political dynamics are changing.

If South Africa can alter the dynamics of its military after 24 years of change, I see no reason why Nigeria, with the requisite political will, cannot. After all, both our countries came to real civilian democracy at the same time.

frumentius:


I lost it at the time cos all the respondents were civilians pontificating on soldiers' welfare from their armchairs. Hell, dunderheads were saying 2-4 year deployments were nothing cos that's what soldiers signed for!
Odunayo, still keen on taking on the uniform?
Hope so. I always encourage youngsters throughout the continent with your mindset. It's the only way our militaries will improve.

Odunayaw:
Evening Sir
I also do not believe the slippers story but I believe the food,water,allowance,and shelter story. The Army can be lax in these things especially towards grunts.

Yes, I notice this "SF" craze in the Army, even cadets doing Camp Farauta want to tag themselves SF

CaptainStephen:
I am currently wearing slippers after three days without removing my boots. I might appear in a photograph and one journalist interprets this as troops wearing slippers to the front line.
There are serious issues no doubt but the mode of reporting smacks.