₦airaland Forum

Chad President Idriss Deby has fired his armed forces chief of staff following the latest bout of unrest which culminated in a Boko Haram attack that left 23 dead.

Deby fired Brahim Seid Mahamat and his two deputies by presidential decree after six years in the post-Friday night just hours after the attack in the southwest of the country.

The soldiers were killed after coming under attack from jihadists in the early hours of Friday morning in the deadliest attack on the Chadian military by Boko Haram, which launched an insurgency in Nigeria a decade ago.

The unrest has spread to neighbouring Niger and Chad with the Boko Haram revolt to date claiming more than 27,000 lives and uprooting more than 1.7 million people.

Friday’s attack took place at Dangdala, on the northeastern bank of Lake Chad.

Thursday had seen another attack by the group kill eight civilians at Karidi in southeastern Niger in the Diffa region bordering Lake Chad, The area is one of the worst-hit areas for jihadist attacks in Niger.

Troops from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have been grouped into a multi-national force to fight Boko Haram.

Deby’s reorganisation of security — which included the suspension of the air force chief and his deputy — saw army chief of staff Taher Erda take the top job with a general from the northeastern region of Tibesti made chief advisor on national defence issues.

Erda is a Deby loyalist and former police chief who fought alongside the president before he took power in 1990.

The air force suspensions followed the discovery of debris from an helicopter which went missing more than a week ago in the north.

The sparsely populated, mainly desert region near the border with Sudan, Libya and Niger is volatile prone to attack from Chadian rebel groups based across the Libyan border.

In late January, France pounded Chadian rebels who had crossed back into their country from Libya to halt their incursion.

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Cc lalasticlala

That's a president

My country has technically defeated BOKO HARAM

Buratai has helped buhari rigged election so it will be a betrayal if buhari suspend the incompetent coas.

ohh

This action is long overdue in Nigeria . It is the only way those lily-livered generals can sit up.

In Nigeria, Boko Haram finished over 100 Nigerian soldiers (RIP) in one attack just like that, n nothing happened.
Chiefs with balloon belly, sending youths on mission impossible of Technically defeated enemy
They will still send more soldier and arm them with 1955 gun Go on boys, the Lord is with you


Nigerian President and his Vice right now

here,even if 230 soldiers fall,..u no go hear pim from bughari

Just imagine. No cabinet reshuffle since May 2015. How do you expect him to fire Service chiefs?

This is a president that understands the rule of law and also how important the people are.

It will never happen in this forest called Nigeria where a northern tyrant is rulling and has apointed and is using his nothern people to misrule and waste our resources

That's a president that wants result

baba will not see this men,be fooling yaself

The COAS here dey do push up for camera men, then e return back to Abuja, pahh!!!

this can not happen in nigeria,

Over here the COAS is highly involved in politics... Sending his boys to militarized the recent elections..

Even Chad is teaching Nigeria EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP. Na wa o.

Which way Nigeria?

Big kudos to a president that is alive. What should I say to the lifeless one and his comrades?

Can this happen in 9ja

This is a president not that lifeless herdsman called Buhari.

In Nigeria, one battalion will die, and the army chiefs will be walking as if nothing happened. A whole village will be wiped out by armed men, yet the commissioner of police will still be on his seat... This country is something else.

Only 23 and the Chief of Staff was fired, under Buhari 100s of soldiers were killed by BH in Metele, Damasak, Bama, Damboa etc and not even a Corporal was questioned not to mention sacking any General

Yeye dey smell....

zeromeridian:
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I am speechless

A lively president who values lives of his soldiers. Unlike our lifeless president. but come to think of it, can a lifeless fellow have value for human life?

That is a serious president not like the old fool called buhari who all he knows is to loot election.

When such happen in Nigeria service chiefs receive promotion instead. Ask Buhari if you are in doubt

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