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Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by OK2NVME: 6:02pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
This thread is inspired by the trending topic of a kidnapped US citizen who was rescued without hitch by US special forces. Sometime in 2012, 2 expats working on a road construction in Sokoto were kidnapped by terrorists cells linked to Al Qaeda. The nationalities of the two expats were British and Italian. For months they languished in captivity until intelligence report not from Nigerian security operatives ) narrowed their location to a particular building in a dusty slum in Sokoto. The UK govt without delay arranged for an SBS team to fly down to Nigeria to secure their rescue but the Nigerian Army refused the special forces carry out or partake in the mission. The SBS guys were at the Akanu Ibiam Intl airport everyday waiting for a diplomatic breakthrough that will allow them be part of the main mission but to no avail as the Army insisted it could secure the release of the hostages without their help. The Army and other security chiefs to then Goodluck Jonathan stated that it will amount to shame on them and a violation of Nigeria's soverignty to have foriegn troops operate within Nigeria. Goodluck turned down the UK and Italian govts' request to partake in the mission. The UK backdown knowing that as the days passed the terrorists maybe tipped off that their location had been compromised and the hostages moved. D-Day approached and the "gallant " Nigerian Army contingent of over a hundred soldeirs , several APCs and two helicopters hovering noisely descended on the Sokoto slum and made way to the target location. Before they reached the building the entire town had already known what was going on talk less of the terrorists who by that time had already killed the two hostages. But for some reasons the terrorists dug in and waited for the Nigerian "rescue mission" which had already lost it's mission purpose long before it got to the hostages. What ensured can only describe the kind of idiots and incompetency that pervades the security forces as the advancing Nigerian troops plus helicopters rained bullets indiscriminately at the building not minding the safety of the hostages. A prolonged fire fight then ensued that lasted for well over 7hrs. The Nigerian troops then decided to smoke the terrorists out by throwing burning car tyres into the building. The firefight onnly ended when the terrorists ran out of ammo and shot themselves . By the time everything was over, the building was riddled with bullets from all direction, rpg hits and a smouldering car tyre and inside the building the dead bodies of the two hostages and their two terrorist minders. This is why the US did not bother to inform the Nigerian govt and also why Idris Derby just strolled into Nigeria and avenged the killings of his soldiers by BH wtthout also notifying the Nigerian govt. They know our army is as useless as they come. Even read of the time the French organised a coalition to rid Mali of Toureg rebels seeking to carve out their own nation state and that the Nigerian soldeirs were rejected to accompany them on missions and were left in the rear to load and offload supplies. Shame ! 72 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by omowolewa: 6:11pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
Did you witnessed the Sokoto mission? The level of precision displayed by US Naval seal on Niger operation is topnotch, that is what we call intelligence 15 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by sarahkom: 6:26pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
US are simply the best and greatest 8 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Damikjay(m): 6:29pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
Give rescue mission to USA dey are very good. For naija na operation fire and die, operation scorpion, operation green snake we get. With big belle 26 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Valkrie: 6:31pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
OK2NVME: Guy, you don finish Nigerian army...!! Well they are not completely useless.....they are still very very good at fighting and killing defenseless women and children...!! 30 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by BigSarah(f): 6:40pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
If the army really did this , then they’re so dumb and incompetent 3 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by nairanaira12: 6:47pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
To think this is the kind of army that ThatFairGuy1 said people should respect. ThatFairGuy1, in your years of aimless wandering on mother earth, don't tell me you haven't heard that respect is reciprocal. You really need to juggle your Brain and stop acting as if someone has locked your brain up in a prison. 15 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Hedonisco: 6:52pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
BigSarah: If? Come on. These idiots are a big disgrace. Just look at how they gather themselves with their guns to oppress unarmed and defenceless civilians. That's enough to tell you how cowardly they are. 11 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by jlinkd78(m): 6:53pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
Great Essay 1 Like |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Tumbulum: 6:54pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
I have no single respect for the Nigeria military. Just bunch of cowards and jokers. Which military derive joy in shooting its own citizens? 15 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Nobody: 6:55pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
@op it was a joint operation by the Nigerian army and British SBS. Please guys, this guy is a lier. The Italian government was not even informed about the operation too. It was after their citizen was killed in the join operation by the Nigerian army and SBS that the Italian prime minister was not inform about the operation. He was so pissed off. 2 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by GeneralStan(m): 7:07pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
Who takes NA serious, genocidal Animals, cowards who are only good at killing unarmed civilians!!! 11 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by thatsleepboy1: 7:12pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
wow wonderful |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by OK2NVME: 7:18pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
BabaOwen: Not true. The Nigerian Army insisted to go alone. I know what I am saying. The Italian govt did come out to berate the British govt for not informing them on the rescue operations and what pissed them off most was that they would have exerted more pressure to have the SBS tag along. Apart from that what else makes you call me a liar? Is there anything I said here besides missing to point out the fallout of the diplomatic row that ensued between Italy and UK? The fact remains the Nigerian Army failed misreably. 16 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Wiseandtrue(f): 7:18pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
OK2NVME: No be today, Nigerian Army don dey fall hand nau Them come worse for this Buhari regime Na for harmless citizens them dey get power 13 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by tommy589(m): 7:19pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
BigSarah: Ordinary map reading they don't know 15 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by ehinmowo: 7:21pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
I don't really expect anything reasonable from NIgeria Army. 50, 000 well trained soldiers will neutralize the entire NIgeria Army. When I saw the strength with which they stormed Lekki and was shooting on people who are only holding flag, I knew NA cannot be a sensible institution. 28 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by PrinceofAgoAre(m): 7:31pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
really imcompetent 3 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by MosheDayan: 7:35pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
When an Aboki dominates any department, it dies a Natural death. What do you expect from an army filled with incompetent terrorist? 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by CodeTemplar: 7:52pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
Lol . . . Airforce once bombed civilians in error too. Even Iran too bombed their own airliner just last year. Anywhere I-slam my head against the floor people are in high concentration enh . . . 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by CodeTemplar: 8:04pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
In Nigeria's defence apparatus, intelligence means suspicion of activity against or that can threaten the ruling Party. 2 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by kollinzgee(m): 8:17pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
Nigerian cannot survive an external invasion with this people. 1 Like |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by SpecialAdviser(m): 8:27pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
I couldn't stop laughing when you made mention of the noisy hovering helicopter They are only experts when python dance is declared against poor untrained rag tag boys in Aba. People that ordinary civil defence would be enough to curtail. Funny thing is seeing how Buratai was hailing himself after that exercise as if he won a war like a warrior. BIG BIG SHAME. 7 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Valkrie: 8:33pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
ehinmowo: Trust me if a single individual in the lekki protest crowd had return fire...them army would have all ran away abandoning their tanks and APCs.. no be today nah...Fight with boko and bandits...nah prayer dem dey ask for from Nigerians with all kind of complains from no enough bullet to their rifle no long well well...!! Yeye...!! 1 Like |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by ThatFairGuy: 8:39pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
I'm ashamed as a Nigerian reading this write up. Everything is just wrong with us. Why us? 5 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by ThatFairGuy: 8:41pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
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Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by Huzormah(m): 8:50pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
The nigerian army are a disgraceful and incompetent bunch . Their modus operandi is to cause pain,maim,destroy and kill it's citizens . They should take a cue from the gallant and intelligent western forces . 7 Likes |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by crackhaus: 8:54pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
OK2NVME:How certain are you that the Nigerian government was not informed before the operation to rescue the kidnapped American took place? |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by LeeMason(m): 8:57pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
What do you expect from a military that still used AK47 riffles. The same used by terrorists, bandits and insurgents. 1 Like |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by jmoore(m): 8:58pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
The rescue mission failed because of the collaboration with Nigeria. UK was involved in the mission. It was a joint operation. Doing a joint operation with an obvious WEAK partner is dangerous. Below is an excerpt about the rescue. The guard's wife – who gave her name as Hauwa – said bullets flew into the room where she and her husband were staying at the time of the rescue bid, killing her husband. "After that, there were about six men who came out of the house with the two hostages," she said. "They came into our wing of the compound, pushed the captives into the toilet and just shot them. I screamed." She denied knowing the hostages had been living in the same compound as her and said they had been kept in the main house which she was strictly forbidden to enter. I am thinking it was the Nigerian army that shot the first bullets. |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by ivolt: 8:59pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
Self-hating niggers above. Real life is not movies where America forces always wins and Jack Bauer is a fictional character. Here are some US failed rescue missions back to back: 1980 https://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Eagle-Claw 2016 https://www.voanews.com/east-asia/us-forces-conduct-unsuccessful-mission-rescue-hostages-afghanistan Down memory lane of failed US rescues. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/12/6/a-brief-history-of-failed-us-rescue-bids Navy seal fighting some hungry kidnappers is nothing to celebrate. Meanwhile, here are some successful rescue missions by Nigerian forces: https://allafrica.com/stories/202007140593.html https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/north-central/376777-police-rescue-four-kidnapped-victims-in-abuja.html https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/breaking-police-rescue-kidnapped-port-harcourt-lawyer/ There are so many more but you get my point. Stop hating your own. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Remembering The Disastrous Sokoto Rescue Mission Conducted By Nigerian Army by jmoore(m): 9:05pm On Oct 31, 2020 |
ivolt: Your examples of success in Nigeria is mediocrity. Ordinary kidnappers, that's what you are comparing to terrorists that are ready to bomb themselves. 8 Likes |
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