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A Nigerian professional footballer got in a war of words with a Military man over the right of way as the soldier drove on the wrong side of the road facing other cars.

The soldier identified simply as Nasiru slapped him over the right of way disagreement. Chikelu Ofoedu plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv striker. After getting slapped, the footballer approached the soldier in his car asking to be killed by the soldier who then came down wielding a cutlass.

An infuriated Nasiru confronts Chikelu with the cutlass but the footballer clamps his hands behind him but continued to question the soldier over the slap. The soldier repeatedly insults the footballer for daring to question him.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkk3W1ZPDk

If this guys do show this sort of gallantry against boko haram, we no go dey where we dey by now in this fight against insurgency.

This lawlessness by our security agency personnel is getting too much.

BabaOwen:
A Nigerian professional footballer got in a war of words with a Military man over the right of way as the soldier drove on the wrong side of the road facing other cars.

The soldier identified simply as Nasiru slapped him over the right of way disagreement. Chikelu Ofoedu plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv striker. After getting slapped, the footballer approached the soldier in his car asking to be killed by the soldier who then came down wielding a cutlass.

An infuriated Nasiru confronts Chikelu with the cutlass but the footballer clamps his hands behind him but continued to question the soldier over the slap. The soldier repeatedly insults the footballer for daring to question him.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkk3W1ZPDk

If this guys do show this sort of gallantry against boko haram, we no go dey where we dey by now in this fight against insurgency.

This lawlessness by our security agency personnel is getting too much.

Thanks for bringing this up, that soldier will be identified and face the music of his actions.

BabaOwen:
A Nigerian professional footballer got in a war of words with a Military man over the right of way as the soldier drove on the wrong side of the road facing other cars.

The soldier identified simply as Nasiru slapped him over the right of way disagreement. Chikelu Ofoedu plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv striker. After getting slapped, the footballer approached the soldier in his car asking to be killed by the soldier who then came down wielding a cutlass.

An infuriated Nasiru confronts Chikelu with the cutlass but the footballer clamps his hands behind him but continued to question the soldier over the slap. The soldier repeatedly insults the footballer for daring to question him.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkk3W1ZPDk

If this guys do show this sort of gallantry against boko haram, we no go dey where we dey by now in this fight against insurgency.

This lawlessness by our security agency personnel is getting too much.

I noticed in the Northeast Soldiers are very friendly here. You can't see Soldiers intimidating civilians here.

Any reason for this?

BREAKING: The gallant troops of Operation Tura Takaibango killed several BokoHaram terrorists this evening in Mafa town, Borno State. No casualty on the side of military as troops morale reportedly Details later.

I heard they tried to attack a SF position.
Also seems like AFSF are redeployed

The governor said this Friday while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja, after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.


Contrary to official claims that the Boko Haram terrorists have been restricted to the North-east, members of the group are successfully carrying out attacks in Nasarawa State, North-central Nigeria, the state governor, Abdulahi Sule, has said.

Mr Sule said this Friday while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja, after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said he has briefed the president on the attacks.

He said the terrorists had regrouped at the Nasarawa/Benue border from where they launch attacks on residents, after they were initially displaced by soldiers from the Toto part of the state.

He said some of the Boko Haram members in his state were those dislodged by security operatives from neighbouring Niger State.

On how he was sure the attackers were members of Boko Haram, he said some of those captured in Niger said they are members of the terror group whose activities have caused tens of thousands of deaths across Nigeria.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/438008-boko-haram-carrying-out-attacks-in-nasarawa-governor-tells-buhari.html

Some soldiers were killed today in nassarawa by bandits. A captain was among the soldiers killed.

Most or almost all this bandits are made up of Fulanis. The funny thing is that most of them are not Nigerians. Even the FG said it themselves.

Look at the way foreigners they kidnap and kill us for our country, yet we get president o

I will blame their CO for their death sha.

BabaOwen:
Some soldiers were killed today in nassarawa by bandits. A captain was among the soldiers killed.

Most or almost all this bandits are made up of Fulanis. The funny thing is that most of them are not Nigerians. Even the FG said it themselves.

Look at the way foreigners they kidnap and kill us for our country, yet we get president o

I will blame their CO for their death sha.

Why?

SamuelAnyawu:
Why?

They were ordered to go into the bush by the CO without any reconnaissance. Let me post the full article by premiumtimes.

The soldiers, who were killed in an ambush by the bandits, were from the 177 Guards Battalion, Shitu Alao Barracks, Keffi, Nasarawa State.

By Mojeed Alabi

Seven Nigerian soldiers were on Monday gruesomely murdered by bandits during a rescue operation in a forest along Mararaba-Udege road in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report.

The soldiers, who were killed in an ambush by the bandits, were from the 177 Guards Battalion, Shitu Alao Barracks, Keffi, Nasarawa State.

According to a reliable source, who does not want to be named for security reasons, the slain soldiers were part of a team of 13 soldiers led into the forest by Felix Kura, a captain.

The soldiers’ mission, the source claimed, was to rescue some residents of the state who were abducted by bandits and taken into the forest.

Out of the 14 military men, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that seven including Mr Kura; Yakubu Bati, a sergeant; Kefas Iliya, a lance corporal, and four others whose identity could not be confirmed as of the time of filing this report, lost their lives.

“As soon as they ran into the ambush and they realised they were being overpowered, Mr Kura was said to have told his colleagues including his “cover” to escape,” the source added.

The authorities of the 177 Guards battalion have informed the families of the slain soldiers of their fate “and signal has been sent to the headquarters,” PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

But the spokesperson to the Nigerian Army, Sagir Musa, a brigadier general, denied knowledge of the development.

“I am not aware. I don’t have that information,” Mr Musa told our reporter on the phone on Thursday.




The late Colonel Felix Kura with his wife, Susan, when he was decorated as a captain in August, 2020

Family confirms officer’s death

An elder brother to the late Mr Kura, Fabian Benjamin, however, confirmed the incident to our reporter on the phone.

A distraught Mr Benjamin expressed bitterness and disappointment at the death of his brother.

He feared that the family is scared to break the news to their.

septuagenarian father, Benjamin Kura, whom he feared may not be strong enough to withstand the shock of the sad news.

Apart from the aged father, Mr Benjamin, the family’s eldest child, also expressed sadness over the fate of his late brother’s young wife, Susan, whom he noted was yet to bear him a child.

He said the late officer was just decorated as a captain in August, 2020.

“My brother read Linguistics at the Benue State University and graduated in 2009. He served in Oyo State in 2010 and joined the Nigerian Army in 2012. He loved the job and was very passionate about it. Some of his commandants even when he was posted to the North East confirmed his bravery and loyalty. I am very depressed right now,” Mr Benjamin told our reporter on the phone.

He said his late brother’s remains will be interred on Tuesday in his home state, Benue.

Failed Mission

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that on Monday the battalion received reports of various abductions along the Mararaba-Udege road and its commander asked Mr Kura to “pull out” alongside 13 other officers to rescue the abductees.

Multiple sources said one of the abductees was a nursing mother whose child was abandoned while the mother was taken.

“Another man was also killed during the operation by the bandits. So no one even knew how many were the victims but only 14 officers were drafted to the scene,” a source said.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the command became worried when communication with the troop was lost and their whereabouts unknown.

The command subsequently sent out about 100 soldiers on a search and rescue mission of the platoon.

“That was how seven bodies were found including the team lead,” another source added.


The late Colonel Felix Kura with his wife, Susan, and a commander when he was decorated as a captain in August, 2020

Kidnapping in Nasarawa

Nasarawa State has in recent times been one of Nigeria’s hotbeds kidnapping, armed robberies and other forms of violence.

Apart from the reported cases along the Mararaba-Udege road, the Deputy Vice-chancellor of Anchor University, Lagos, Johnson Fatokun, was also abducted on his way from Jos, Plateau State capital, to Keffi, on Monday.

Mr Fatokun, a professor of Computational Mathematics, was only released on Wednesday after ransom had been paid.

According to a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES by the university’s assistant registrar, strategy and communications, Sanusi Okesola, Mr Fatokun’s release was “secured after negotiations with his abductors.”

In a telephone conversation, Mr Okesola added that the lecturer was immediately conveyed to Abuja from where he would be flown to Lagos to resume work.

“The professor was not tortured, and he is in high spirit. We only thank everyone including the leadership and members of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, the university community, the Nigerian security operatives and all Nigerians who prayed along with the university,” Okesola told our reporter on the phone.

He added that though N20 million was demanded by the abductors, the ransom paid was not N20 million. He, however, declined to disclose how much was paid.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/438036-exclusive-bandits-kill-seven-soldiers-in-nasarawa.html

Soldiers escort herdsmen to Ogun villages, flog residents for rejecting herders

Not a few residents of Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State were brutalised by soldiers who escorted herdsmen to graze in the communities, prompting residents and monarchs to cry out to the military and state government for help, KUNLE AKINRINADE reports.

Seye Mulero panted like a rat that had just escaped the claws of a ravenous cat. He could hardly acknowledge the sympathy offered by the kinsmen that surrounded him, urging him to take heart and seek medical treatment in hospital as he pulled up his shirt to show his badly hurt body at Ubeku village in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State.

“Sorry,” said some of the women repeatedly in Yoruba as Mulero pulled up his shirt to show the wounds from the flogging on his muscular body, urging him to go to the hospital for treatment.

Mulero, one of the young men in the rustic village, had drawn the ire of some soldiers by speaking truth to them. The soldiers, numbering 10, had escorted some herdsmen on a mission to intimidate the villagers after they resisted an attempt by the herders to graze their cattle in the community after alleged repeated attacks and killing of farmers who dared protest the destruction of their farms.

The herdsmen, who had departed the village after their continued presence was rejected by the villagers, had suddenly resurfaced at about 2 pm on December 19, 2020 with a handful of soldiers from the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta.

The soldiers headed straight to the palace of the traditional ruler of the community, Chief Olaleye Adigun, calling out the villagers and warning them against preventing the evicted herdsmen from returning to the village. It was in the middle of this strange encounter that Mulero told the soldiers that the herders would not be allowed to remain in the community because of their brutal killing of residents and the destruction of their farmlands in recent times.

Mulero said: “Everyone was frightened by the action and utterances of the soldiers but I summoned courage to tell them how a Geography teacher Mr. Yomi Akinola and two students of Community High School, Ibeku, among others, were killed by the herdsmen while our women were raped and killed on their ways to the farm.”

Mulero’s blunt comments enraged the herdsmen who immediately asked the soldiers to deal with him. The military men allegedly responded by promptly seizing, kicking and flogging the young man mercilessly, leaving him serious injuries.

Recalling the ugly experience, Mulero said: “Before I knew it, the herdsmen had motioned to the soldiers who immediately pulled me out of the audience and flogged me mercilessly with a wire whip. It was as if I stole something valuable.

“As I speak, my body still aches because of the wounds, even after I had been treated in a hospital.

“Numerous other villagers were subjected to the brutal act as the soldiers escorted the herdsmen from one village to another all in a bid to intimidate us into allowing them to graze on our farms.”

Like Ubeku, like Asa, others
But Mulero and Ubeku village were not the only person and area that tasted the bile of the soldiers who escorted the herdsmen in a military patrol van from one village to another. Innocent indigenes of Iselu, Ibeku, Agbon-Ojodu, Asa and other villages were also harassed and assaulted by the soldiers at the instance of the herdsmen.

After leaving Ubeku, the herders and the complicit soldiers moved to neighbouring Asa, where they reenacted the Ubeku scenario, causing the hapless villagers to panic.

At Asa, the herders sighted Mulero’s brother, Gabriel Mulero, accusing him of being among the crowd that jeered them after his brother was beaten up. There and then, the soldiers seized the young man, giving him some deafening slaps and kicking him mercilessly before whisking him away to a neighbouring village, Agbon-Ojodu, where they dropped him off after elders of the community pleaded for his release.

At Agbon-Ojodu the hapless villagers would not utter a word, having heard how the soldiers harassed and assaulted the Muleros. But despite their foreboding silence, some of the residents received severe beatings from the soldiers for keeping mum.

Gabriel (Mulero) said: “I was returning from a party at Asa with one of our friends named Mathew Adaramaja when my elder brother told me on the phone that some soldiers had led herdsmen to our village and brutalised him.

“To avoid trouble, we stayed away from the scene and sat near some commercial motorcycle operators. Suddenly, one of the herdsmen named Ali led the soldiers to the spot where we were seated and accused us of being one of the people that were opposed to them.

“The soldiers descended on us with fan belts and flogged us severely. They tied our legs and pushed us into their patrol, van threatening to shoot us if we tried to jump down and run away. They said they were taking us to their barracks at Alamala. They accused us of preventing the herdsmen from grazing on our farms and vowed to teach us a lesson.

“However, when they got to Agbon-Ojodu village, elders of the community pleaded with them to free us. We were badly brutalised and we had to visit Ibeku Health Centre for treatment.”

Sorrow, tears, blood from attacks by soldiers

About 29 villages in the area had been attacked in recent times by terror herdsmen who were said to have camped at Eggua, a neighbouring town, from where they moved with their hordes of cattle, ravaging farmlands within the Ketu-Yewa communities, which share borders with the Republic of Benin.

The villages include Ateru, Moro, Ologun, Agbon, Igbota, Ogunba-Aiyetoro, Oke-Odo, Ibore, Gbokoto, Iselu, Ijale, Ohunbe, Igbeme, Owode-Ketu, Igan-Alade, Lashilo, Oja Odan, Ateru, Moro, Ologun, Iyana Meta, Igbooro, Egbeda and Kuse.

The armed herdsmen, who usually lead their flock in search of pasture because of the rich vegetation in the Ketu-speaking villages, have also been fingered in the destruction of cash crops belonging to natives, attacks, killing and raping of women who are mostly natives of the communities.

On January 10, 2020, herdsmen reportedly hacked 70-year-old, Pa Sola Ilo to death, and chopped off his son, Abidemi’s hand in broad daylight at Agbon village. Worried by the incident, villagers from the 29 communities staged a rally in protest and declared the herders persona non grata.

One person was reportedly killed on Tuesday May 5, 2020 when suspected herdsmen abducted a policewoman and injured two others in separate attacks in Ayetoro area of Yewa North Local Government.

The herdsmen who had laid siege to the road were said to have shot dead the driver of a commercial bus commuting from Abeokuta to Ayetoro, while the unidentified female police officer attached to the Police Area Command in Ayetoro was abducted and the car she drove was abandoned at the roadside.

The herders also allegedly stabbed one Segun Ileyemi at Olorunda village several times while trying to rob him of his belongings, and he had to be rushed to Ayetoro General Hospital for treatment.

The lawmaker representing Yewa North and Imeko-Afon Federal Constituency, Hon. Olaifa Jimoh, had condemned the spate of attacks, urging security agencies to save the villagers’ lives.

Jimoh said: “It is no longer news that the dastardly act of the Fulani herdsmen in my constituency is legendary as records are available at various offices of security agencies. But for how long will this continue?

“The herdsmen mostly lay siege to the roads as they wait for my constituents, to either rob them of their belongings or kidnap them outright.”

With the assistance of the local vigilance group and operatives of the state police command, suspected herdsmen involved in the killing of one Olabisi Afolabi and attacks on some women at Moro and Eegelu villages in December were apprehended.

One AK47 rifle, pieces of 0.8mm live ammunition, 26 live catridges and two machetes were recovered from the suspects-Mohammed Bello (40), Muhammed Momoh (30) and Yisau Umoru (18).

Although, the suspects were paraded at the state police command in Eleweran, Abeokuta by the then Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Illyasu, their prosecution never saw the light of day.

Residents, monarchs protest, write military authorities

Palpable fear has since taken over the area with residents deserting many of the communities for fear of falling victim to the marauding herders, who are being backed by military escorts.

Panicky villagers told The Nation of their plans to leave their communities for fear of reprisals by herdsmen who have been emboldened by the support from soldiers to forcibly storm their villages and further destroy their crops and attack them.

Oluwafemi Adeyemo, an indigene of Asa, said the incident was an insult to the villagers who ordinarily deserve adequate protection from the military.

Adeyemo said: The intention of the herdsmen is to exterminate us and take over our villages, but we resisted them because they have killed many people around here and ravaged our farms for too long.

“It is thus an insult for soldiers to lead them to our villages in an attempt to coerce us into allowing them to live in our midst and further perpetrate their evil.”

Rafiu Alade, a native of Ibeku said the action of the soldiers was a violation of the rights of the indigenes.

He urged the state government and military authorities to call the soldiers to order to prevent the indigenes from resorting to self-help in order to protect themselves from herdsmen.

“How can soldiers back herdsmen to invade our community? Yet, the soldiers flogged and beat up those singled out by herdsmen as opposing their stay in the communities. That amounts to a violation of people’s fundamental human rights and a nod for perennial lawlessness displayed by the herdsmen in our villages.

“It is high time the state government and military authorities called these soldiers and herdsmen to order. Otherwise, the villagers could resort to self-help to protect themselves against the hoodlums.”

Worried by the development, monarchs of the affected communities petitioned the Nigeria Army over alleged connivance of its men with herdsmen to assault and harass villagers.

The monarchs are the Oniggua of Iggualand, Oba Micheal Adeleye Dosumu; the Eselu of Iseluland, Oba Akintunde Ebenezer Akinyemi; and the Alademeso of Igan Alade, Oba Gabriel Olukunle Olalowo.

The petition titled ‘matter of urgency’ dated January 7, 2021 signed by their lawyer, Mr. Olaoluwa Folalu, was addressed to the Brigade Commander of 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta.

The petition reads in part: “Specifically around 2.00 p.m. of the same day, the Fulani herders and suspected soldiers entered Ibeku in a Nigerian Army pick-up vehicle and a private car wherein they proceeded to the house of the Baale (the traditional Head of the Ibeku community).

“The Baale was asked to gather his subjects and people from nearby villages, which he did. The suspected soldiers told the people that the purpose of their visit was to inform them that the Fulani herders would be coming into their communities to graze cows.

“Thus, the soldiers would ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order. After their address, they asked if anyone had question or comment to make in reaction to the information.

“Expectedly, One Mr. Seye Mulero responded by calling the attention of the soldiers to the inherent challenges of allowing the herders in their communities based on the sad previous experiences in the community.

“The said Seye Mulero further cited past killings, maiming and destruction of farms to buttress his point. Sadly, at this point, the soldiers seized him and mercilessly beat him up.

“In the same manner, the Fulani herders in company of the suspected soldiers left Ibeku for Asa, the adjoining village to address the Baale of Asa and his subjects as they had earlier done at Ibeku. Shockingly to the soldiers, after their address, the people refused to respond, having heard what transpired at Ibeku. “However, one of the Fulani herders sighted some people in the audience and picked on them as those that purportedly shouted on them at Ibeku while brutalising their victim (Seye Mulero). The herders asked the soldiers to also deal with them.

“On hearing this, the people took to their heels. However, one Gabriel Mulero, was not so lucky enough as the soldiers grabbed him and ruthlessly assaulted him.

“He was whisked away in their pick-up vehicle to Agbon-Ojodu, another adjoining village, where they compelled the Baale to assemble his subjects for a forceful briefing. It was at Agbon Ojodu that the said Gabriel Mulero was dropped off from the Army pick-up following pleadings by some community leaders.

“Kindly be informed sir that the alleged issue of procuring soldiers by herders to escort them to forcefully graze on the people’s farm, the attendant molestation of the innocent people by the alleged soldiers and the destruction of farms are known to the Police.

“On 3rd January 2021, the State Commissioner of Police (CP), Ogun Command brokered a meeting over the matter at the Police Divisional Headquarters, Eggua.

“During the meeting, some of the herders confirmed that they brought the soldiers that escorted them while grazing their herds on the people’s lands; a development that the CP himself strongly condemned.”

It will be recalled that the immediate past administration of Governor Ibikunle Amosun had initiated a committee in a bid to resolve incessant herders-farmers clashes.

“The committee had comprised community and traditional leaders as well as the leadership of herdsmen in the state, but the modalities recommended by the committee, which included the registration and monitoring of herdsmen by community and traditional authorities, were never implemented throughout the tenure of Governor Amosun.

When The Nation contacted the Public Relations Officer of 35 Artillery Brigade, Major Osoba, he said that he would contact his ‘boss’ to revert to our correspondent on the matter.

“I will tell my boss about your enquiry and he would contact you and give you explanation,” he said.

He, however, had not done so at press time.

Also, the spokesman of Ogun State Police Command, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he was in a meeting when our correspondent called him on his mobile phone. He too had not reverted as promised at press time.

Speaking with our correspondent Oba Akinyemi urged the state government to intervene and resolve the matter once and for all.

He said the soldiers had usurped the role of the police in the matter.

“Soldiers have no business escorting herders to graze on our farms; what they did is tantamount to usurping the police, who are statutorily mandated to maintain law and order.

“The state government should wade into this matter and ensure that justice is served as indigenes will not give up their farms and cash crops to be destroyed by herders.”

Oba Akinyemi noted that the herders were trying use the confrontation they had in Benin Republic to launch mindless attacks on his people, using soldiers.

He said: “The armed herdsmen were recently repelled in Oguba-Ayetoro, a Yoruba-speaking community in Benin Republic which shares boundary with my kingdom. They went into the village to graze, not knowing they were already in another country and the gendarmes (police) repelled them.

“Grazing is outlawed in the francophone country and authorities of Benin Republic had communicated this policy to their Nigerian counterparts, hence, the police there confronted the herders.

“Now, they are passing off the village for a Nigerian territory and using it to foment trouble everywhere.

“The state government should also empower and involve the local council areas in initiatives aimed at bringing peace and maintaining law and order in our communities to avoid clashes, as indigenes are tired of being terrorised by herders.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/soldiers-escort-herdsmen-to-ogun-villages-flog-residents-for-rejecting-herders/amp/

Some of the news person dey read for this country dey make person boil with anger... I will advise Buhari and Buratai to call their people to order... One useless thing will now be blaming person for not been patriotic in this lawless country

There will be a time when the only solution to Nigeria problem will be total dissolution. How can herdsmen com to your village, destroy your farmlands, and also kill your people. I just wish state government will really tackle this nonsense. Fulanis must pay for all this nonsense. An eye must be for an eye.

This rubbish is getting out of hand all in the name of a useless one Nigeria.

One rubbish thing will come out and start lamenting about Sowore and Sahara reporter, but will see people dying on their lands as normal thing. Nonsense!!

Thank God we dey see our enemies now This was the way the Alafin was warning the government in the 60's about the rascality of Nigerian soldiers and police which the government failed to correct the wrongs. It lead to Agbekoya taken up arms against the state. A lot of soldiers and police lost their lives during the fight.

You wey com from Sokoto or Bauchi go dey do nonsense for people ancestral land all in the name of one Nigeria... E no go better for all of Una.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/defend-will-die-ty-danjuma-tells-nigerians/amp/

I now fully understand why Danjuma made this statement.

Propaganda machine don dey overwork

BabaOwen:
There will be a time when the only solution to Nigeria problem will be total dissolution. How can herdsmen com to your village, destroy your farmlands, and also kill your people. I just wish state government will really tackle this nonsense. Fulanis must pay for all this nonsense. An eye must be for an eye.

This rubbish is getting out of hand all in the name of a useless one Nigeria.

One rubbish thing will come out and start lamenting about Sowore and Sahara reporter, but will see people dying on their lands as normal thing. Nonsense!!

The only reason the so called "southern leaders" are deaf and dumb to this herds men menace is because they own the cattle being herded by the fulani herds men they employed and they will do all within their power to ensure that their business is protected.
The cattle in the story above are most likely owned by a high ranking government official that has access to this kind of perk or a high ranking military officer that deployed men under him to ensure his business is protected.

The fact that it isn't even being discussed in the national assembly should tell you that the herders are just willing tools of the elites.

PRESS RELEASE

OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE: MORE BOKO HARAM CRIMINALS ELIMINATED BY TROOPS OF 402 SPECIAL FORCES BRIGADE OPERATION TURA TAKAIBANGO CAPTURE ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN BORNO STATE.

1. Troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO a subsidiary Operation of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in the North East continue to obliterate elements of Boko Haram/Islamic State's West Africa Province criminals with uncommon ferocity as they overrun *Abbagajiri and Dusula* towns in Damboa. Latest encounter with the marauding Boko Haram criminals occurred by 0835hrs on 20 January 2021 at Abbagajiri in Damboa LGA of Borno State where the Gallant troops identified and encycled some Boko Haram criminals enclaves. The troops of 402 Special Forces Task Force Brigade led by the Commander engaged them with superior fire power resulting in high casualty on the terrorists. In the aftermath of the decisive encounter, 5 Boko Haram Terrorists were neutralized while few others are believed to have escaped with gunshot wounds. Equipment captured from the criminals include; one Pulemyot Kalashnikova Tankovyy(PKT) Gun, 3 AK 47 Rifles, 4 extra AK 47 Rifle magazines and a Vulcanizing Machine. Other items captured and destroyed includes food stuffs, some Improvised Explosive Device (IED) making materials including the criminals' hideouts and clothings among others.

2. The renewed onslaught against the remnants of Boko Haram/Islamic State's West Africa Province criminals by the dogged troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO is indicative of the end of all criminal elements within the North East.

3. The troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO are highly commended for their dedication and determination in flushing out remnants of the terrorists from their hideouts. They are also encouraged not to relent but build on the successes recorded.

4. The entire populace of the North East region are hereby assured of the Nigerian Army's renewed vigour and determination to crush the remnants of Boko Haram/Islamic State's West Africa Province criminals from their enclaves in this zone.

5. You are kindly requested to disseminate this information to the general public through your medium with attached photographs for awareness. Thank you for your usual cooperation.

BENARD ONYEUKO
Brigadier General
Acting Director
Defence Media Operations
22 January 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZMg-TRw2T4

bidexiii:
PRESS RELEASE

OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE: MORE BOKO HARAM CRIMINALS ELIMINATED BY TROOPS OF 402 SPECIAL FORCES BRIGADE OPERATION TURA TAKAIBANGO CAPTURE ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN BORNO STATE.

1. Troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO a subsidiary Operation of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in the North East continue to obliterate elements of Boko Haram/Islamic State's West Africa Province criminals with uncommon ferocity as they overrun *Abbagajiri and Dusula* towns in Damboa. Latest encounter with the marauding Boko Haram criminals occurred by 0835hrs on 20 January 2021 at Abbagajiri in Damboa LGA of Borno State where the Gallant troops identified and encycled some Boko Haram criminals enclaves. The troops of 402 Special Forces Task Force Brigade led by the Commander engaged them with superior fire power resulting in high casualty on the terrorists. In the aftermath of the decisive encounter, 5 Boko Haram Terrorists were neutralized while few others are believed to have escaped with gunshot wounds. Equipment captured from the criminals include; one Pulemyot Kalashnikova Tankovyy(PKT) Gun, 3 AK 47 Rifles, 4 extra AK 47 Rifle magazines and a Vulcanizing Machine. Other items captured and destroyed includes food stuffs, some Improvised Explosive Device (IED) making materials including the criminals' hideouts and clothings among others.

2. The renewed onslaught against the remnants of Boko Haram/Islamic State's West Africa Province criminals by the dogged troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO is indicative of the end of all criminal elements within the North East.

3. The troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO are highly commended for their dedication and determination in flushing out remnants of the terrorists from their hideouts. They are also encouraged not to relent but build on the successes recorded.

4. The entire populace of the North East region are hereby assured of the Nigerian Army's renewed vigour and determination to crush the remnants of Boko Haram/Islamic State's West Africa Province criminals from their enclaves in this zone.

5. You are kindly requested to disseminate this information to the general public through your medium with attached photographs for awareness. Thank you for your usual cooperation.

BENARD ONYEUKO
Brigadier General
Acting Director
Defence Media Operations
22 January 2021

Nice video clip



https://www.facebook.com/MilitainmentT/videos/1138055076629571/

WoeBetide666:
Propaganda machine don dey overwork

The joke is on u

QuietMynd:
The joke is on u

God bless you, the effrontery with which those Fulani boys to treat people in their own community is something else.

BabaOwen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3jowUZf4kY

Only God knows the crime of this guy wey dey make the soldier dey tear am slap like this

There is no way you will be innocent and a soldier without a gun go dey tear you slap without tearing your own.

The army heirarchy has a lot of work cut out

bidexiii:
Nice video clip



https://www.facebook.com/MilitainmentT/videos/1138055076629571/

Keeps telling me content not found.

QuietMynd:
The joke is on u

If you choose to believe fake news sites then that's your problem. PremiumTimes, People's Gazette, Sahara Reporters, and other similar tabloids should be avoided by normal and right thinking Nigerians

https://twitter.com/Affan1030/status/1353056327308693505?s=20 the hunt continues
#PrayForOurTroops

Men

Toju200:
https://twitter.com/Affan1030/status/1353056327308693505?s=20 the hunt continues
#PrayForOurTroops

Men

Nice one Guys. I really want to know what's happening in Borno North, this our Sambisa axis no too get wahala aside that Dreaded Banki and some outskirts of Pulka

WoeBetide666:
If you choose to believe fake news sites then that's your problem. PremiumTimes, People's Gazette, Sahara Reporters, and other similar tabloids should be avoided by normal and right thinking Nigerians

Lmao,
Despite glaring video evidence.
I don't think u can see anything truth with that eyes again.

bidexiii:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZMg-TRw2T4

One wonders why he didn't get in the red cross bus. Trying to play the hero or what? Dumb scene.

Military reports are centered on Alagarno and Sambisa have been fully occupied by the NA .
Heavy Fighting took place.
The Chads and the Cameroonians forces were involved.
It appears Fighting will continue into the LCB or possibly into Niger.
There have been stories of VBIEDs..

The NAF has built up a Special regiment from scratch. Their job will be to handle the Base Security arrangement for the Kainji Dam Airforce that house the A-29 Tuscanos.

The NAF for the first time admitted that in providing security in Taraba State encountered elements of Ambazonian Seperatists Of Cameroon.
Details were not given but does not appear any casualties occurred on the NAF side.

LTGEN:
Military reports are centered on Alagarno and Sambisa have been fully occupied by the NA .
Heavy Fighting took place.
The Chads and the Cameroonians forces were involved.
It appears Fighting will continue into the LCB or possibly into Niger.
There have been stories of VBIEDs..

There should be a plan to ensure that the terrorists don't resettle the forests after the operation. This isn't the first time the forest will be cleared.
Maybe replicating the Falgore forests training camp.

The solution to the herdsmen crisis is pretty straightforward. Each state legislature should make laws banning open grazing and provide alternatives to cattle husbandry. Local farmers can be sensitized to process the shoots of their crops into silage after harvesting that they can sell to ruminant animal farmers (extra income for farmers). The state can also partner with private sector to create grazing reserves with each portion being leased to cattle farmers to graze for a specific period for a reasonable amount of money.
But the people that are meant to do all these in each of the states are the ones benefiting the most from the status quo. Even many of your local kings and chiefs own cattles. Ask yourself whatvare their cattles feeding on? They want to maximize the returns on their investments by reducing costs to the barest minimum.