OK2NVME:
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 !

BigSarah:
If the army really did this , then they’re so dumb and incompetent

BabaOwen:
@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.

OK2NVME:

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.

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.

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

BigSarah:
If the army really did this , then they’re so dumb and incompetent

ehinmowo:
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.

tommy589:

Ordinary map reading they don't know

OK2NVME:

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.

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.

ivolt:
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.