EVarn:
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about if you believe that corruption in those other aforementioned countries is more "hidden and punished" than in Nigeria. Is it hidden in Saudi Arabia where each of the over 15,000 princes is entitled to a monthly stipend ranging from $30,000 to $350,000, plus other allowances such as "palace allowance"?, the Al-Saud family alone is worth an estimated $1.4 trillion, and it all comes from the Saudi treasury. Is it hidden in Russia where an estimated $20 billion was laundered to several banks in the U.K, Moldova and Latvia in the notorious "laundromat" scandal between 2010 and 2014?, a case that implicated Igor Putin, a cousin to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Yet till today, nothing has happened. Is it hidden in the U.S where billions of dollars are donated every year by "lobbyists" to top government officials for favours and contracts?, A country where, till today, they can't account for the over $1 trillion spent on the F-35 stealth fighter project. Let me not even talk about India, Brazil and co. How much is the entire Nigerian budget compared to these figures?.


You think because we have these corruption scandals here and there(many of which are even unfounded and politically motivated), then Nigeria has it worse than all other countries of the world?. You need to see beyond emotions, it has clearly affected your sense of self worth.

Corruption is in our DNA? really?.

rka2:
NN SBS training with US Coast Guard and I international partners from Spain & Portugal.

kikuyu1:


Actually US ground units both army and USMC occasionally lost engagements on coy and platoon level. IIRC,there were at least 20 smth clear defeats.

Odunayaw:
in country or abroad?

EVarn:
I will not be drawn into the futile cycle of arguments that has pervaded this thread over the past few pages, I have so far tried very much to abstain from it.

Nigeria is "fantastically corrupt", how much is stolen from Nigeria's treasury compared to Saudi Arabia(where the state coffers is more or less the property of the Al-Saud dynasty), or India where corruption has become a holocaust, or Russia that is a classic example of plutocracy and cronyism, or even the US where corruption is state sanctioned in form of "lobbying" and national policies are scripted by big corporations?. Oh, I am not in any way saying that corruption is not deeply rooted in the Nigerian society,but we make it seem as if we have it worse than all other countries of the world,when in fact, we are doing fairly well when you take into consideration our meagre fiscal revenue and the cumbersome form of governance (presidential with a bicameral legislature) we are currently practicing.

I am of the opinion that Nigerians exhibit too much hysteria tinged with inferiority complex on issues that certainly don't warrant such. The fact that David Cameron called Nigeria fantastically corrupt doesn't mean we are fantastically corrupt, at least if we are to go by the dictionary meaning of "fantastically".

Before coming to conclusions, we should always bear in mind that there are informations we are not privy to,which usually influences the decisions of the government. In the days of President Yar'adua, Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered Nigeria a weapons deal worth $350 million in order to "secure the Niger Delta region" from militancy. Yar'adua attended the meeting in Downing Street, drank tea, smiled politely and nodded his head as Brown chattered endlessly about the British "special package" of military hardwares. He left the meeting and came back to Nigeria to offer the militants an amnesty programme, discarding British advice of escalating the war against the militants. Today, we have managed to pacify the Niger Delta region(at a negligible cost). In truth, Gordon Brown only cared about oil in the region and was willing to supply as much weapons as was needed to support British and American interests. If Yar'adua had towed the line of sustaining the conflict, we'd still be at war with MEND and other groups till today, and many Nigerians from that region would be displaced. In that instance, Brown will say Nigeria rejected British help.

I will be the first to agree that Jonathan didn't handle the BH crisis well and corruption was quite pervasive during his administration, however, in this case, Cameron is simply playing to the gallery for his own reasons.

blacKDalia:




You are simply deflecting from the main subject which is Nigeria. I'm not concerned about what is happening in these countries you mentioned but they are economically better than us. An example of a fantastic corruption is the ONSA using the north east insurgency as a front to fund the PDP campaign and also enrich individuals. The north east insurgency has been and is still a cash cow for the military top brass. In these countries you mentioned I doubt if all these happenings will go unpunished. I agree that Dasuki has been taking to court but four years after, no conviction, nothing,you know why? Make a guess. Some of them in a different North East insurgency heist, where given just a slap on the wrist and told to return just a little from the much they have stolen. Recently 3 military boys absconded with millions of naira they were supposedly escorting for a major general, where did he get the money from? Did I hear you say he is being court marshalled. Na paddy paddy go kill that case, because they all are in the same league. I will scoff at your idea that "Nigerians exhibit too much hysteria tinged with inferiority complex", or whatever you will like to call it next time. And in all these, young men are being unnecessarily killed in the North East without any one batting an eyelid. Mtcheeeeew.

EVarn:
Let me foreclose further comments on this issue by submitting that Nigeria's problem is more of poverty than corruption. If we are generating revenues to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars every year, the theft of a few billions will hardly be noticed, and the effect on national development would be very limited, that is why big countries can get away with such massive corruption and financial waste. Even if a kobo is not stolen from our current budget, it is still grossly inadequate to cater for us as a nation.


It is almost impossible to practice Constitutional Republican form of democracy without corruption.

bidexiii:
Can't decide between firepower and mobility?

Don't want to settle for a puny AK but too feeble to handle an MG?

I present to you the wheelbarrow MG
It even collects spent casings so you can reload them later......

GabrielYulaw:


Nice. But how does it work? Is the user going to carry it up in order to engage the opponent
Also, what about stability when firing it?

GeneralFarouq:

Lol,my thought just that since bidexxi haven't tested it... It unlikely he would know...

bidexiii:
Can't decide between firepower and mobility?

Don't want to settle for a puny AK but too feeble to handle an MG?

I present to you the wheelbarrow MG
It even collects spent casings so you can reload them later......

GabrielYulaw:


Nice. But how does it work? Is the user going to carry it up in order to engage the opponent
Also, what about stability when firing it?

bidexiii:


This type of weaponry is best deployed during tactical maneuvers/engagement with the enemy.......

GabrielYulaw:

Thanks for the clarification.

18. Operation Utah - On March 4, 1966, the 2nd battalion of the 7th Marines helicoptered into an area near Quang Ngai to investigate reports of an NVA regiment in the area. They found it dug into fortifications around Hill 50. Their attacked failed and the Marines fell back, but were surprised when the NVA counterattacked. The battalion was in trouble and more Marine units were flown in to join the battle. The enemy withdrew, but only after the Marines lost 98 dead, 278 wounded, with several aircraft destroyed.

0. Ambush at Hoc Mon - In 1968, 92 American soldiers of C Company, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 25th Division began a search-and-destroy mission near Saigon. They were looking for a Viet Cong force that had been firing rockets into their Tan Son Nhut Air Base. As they rushed along a road without flank security to catch up with their battalion, they ran into an ambush. Within eight minutes, 49 American soldiers were dead or dying, and 29 were wounded.

bidexiii:
Algeria- yet another big seizure for ANP in Tamanrasset (Mali-Niger borders) - 10 BM-21 Grad rockets.

Algerian1:


+ a STRELA 2M (SA-7) and 6 others BM 21 rocket . weapons caches are discovered every two days in the south near borders regions

Uwaomaokey:
ISWAPs Jihadists have captured a Policeman, as expected, ISWAP claims attack in Babban Gida, but also in Gajiram. In the first the terrorists claim brief control over the town for a brief period, in the second, they say they killed a Nigerian soldier and wounded several others.

Source : Tomasz

bidexiii:
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