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ruggedtimi:
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Truth be told these report is nothing but the truth,Is just that the soldiers and officer there are afraid of victimization,but is nothing but the truth.

Boko Haram: Army Officer Replies Buratai From Battle Front
parrotgist.com Jun 29, 2019 1:00 PM
It came like a thunderbolt. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen.Tukur Buratai, penultimate Wednesday, said that poor commitment of troops on the front line of the insurgency war is responsible for the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks. Prominent groups, political parties and individuals expressed shock over the statement by Buratai. Then, a voice came from the “wilderness” through a dawn telephone call (number hidden) from one of the soldiers on the front line.

The voice was unmistakably hoarse and angry not only on what the Chief of Army staff said but also against the press for being “docile “over the issue of insurgency in the Northern part of the country. It pleaded for strict anonymity but stated in clear terms that his rendition through the phone is a truthful representation of what is obtainable in the battle front, presently. His outburst is as explosive as it is instructive. He intermittently challenged the press to find way to the battle fronts and find out the true situation of things. He said that Buratai did not encourage them by making such a statement he termed ‘demoralising. Excerpts:



“To start with, if Buratai said we don’t have sufficient commitment in the battle field, Number one, find out how many regular soldiers we have in the battle field to back the troops and give them the needed morale support in the battle front. Let me tell you categorically about the officers we have here in the battle front; short service commissioned officers. You can never see regular combatant officers here. They hide themselves in various places like in Abuja, Lagos, PortHarcourt, where they are making money. In case you don’t know, some regular combatant soldiers are those who spend just within five years and get promoted fast.

It would have been nice if the chief of Army staff came to camp zero here, the heart of Sambisa, before he went to the media. He needs to visit here to see our problems.



Here in camp zero, we have limited Mine Resistant Ambush Protection, MRAP, and gun truck used for maximum capacity to retain fire from the enemies. If Boko Haram is coming with eleven to twenty gun trucks and we have only few here, how can we confront such situation? We agree that in the time of warfare, skill and professionalism matter, but also, the number matters.

With professionalism you can only confront minimal situation. The troops here are ill -equipped and highly demoralized. Even the statement by Buratai is another demoralizing statement. The statement has gotten to the troops in battle grounds, and do you know how we are feeling here now? We feel that despite our struggle, Buratai went ahead and made such a statement, and we are not being appreciated. At the end of the day, the society will treat and look at us with lukewarm and docile attitudes.

In terms of our equipment, let me give you a layman analogy. If you are holding a water cane, no matter how long it is, and you are fighting a man with a cutlass, you may flog him severally, but immediately he gives you one cut, that is the end for you. We are nowhere near Boko Haram.

There is also confusion. On a good day, we could be advancing after receiving intelligence. We will get a call, maybe from one General in Abuja who will say, gentlemen, pin down, pause. That is when you are set to give a massive devastation to the enemies. In the next hour, we will get a call again to advance, before we get there, we would realize that all the enemies have gone. The General may mean well based on intelligence made available to him. But it could also be pure sabotage. That is what I call conspiracy of silence. That’s confusion.

Another instance is that, you can see the army about launching an attack, and they will tell you, gentlemen, withdraw. For what? And when we withdraw, the same road we came through, the enemies would have laid ambush for you. At the end, we would become the victims. Also, when we get Intelligence report through our drone, they will report that in an axis like Metele, we have sighted enemies with about 20 gun trucks, and that we should get ready. Tell me, what stops the Air Force that saw the enemies from shooting them immediately? Then at the end of the month, we are being given N20 or N30, 000, to do what?

Another disheartening part is that, when a soldier dies, after two months, they stop paying the soldier’s salary, and leave his family suffering, without any care for them. If you could recall, a video went viral recently of a soldier that needed a kidney transplant. He needed just about N6 million, but the government could not assist him and that was a man that laid down his life for his country.”

How much are you in the battle front paid?

We receive our normal salary and then, they give us N45, 000. But, all is not given in cash. They give N10, 000 cash; pay N20, 000 into your bank account. Then, the authorities collect the remaining N15, 000, saying it is for our feeding.

What type of food do you people eat?

Normal food, Gari, Rice, Beans, and whatever they bring.

So, we are just here because we don’t have any other country to call our own. We have laid down our lives for Nigeria. There is no greater love than a man to lay down his life for his country and colleague, which is what we are doing here.

Describe how you are equipped to fight enemies?

The simple word is that we are ill-equipped. What we normally have with us is just our AK47 rifles and nothing more apart from our uniforms. Some soldiers don’t have ballistic helmet, some, no fighting jacket, except you make personal efforts. We buy some equipment by ourselves. For instance, if a soldier leading a troop is changed, the new leader has to beg the former to buy his equipment from him after negotiation. If you don’t provide for yourself, you are on your own. Sometimes, we have to go to soldiers in the barracks, give them little money and collect their equipment.

What happens at the battlefield when you go to war?

What we are fighting here is defensive, not offensive. In an ideal situation, we are supposed to be fighting offensive battle. Defensive means that, you are on your own position, and they bring the fight to you. This happens because we don’t have logistics, not the type of vehicles you would expect. When the troops are going, movement could sometimes be compromised. So, when they bring the fight to us, by the time we start engaging them, it becomes difficult. They come in thousands against us in hundreds. We will shoot until we get tired, that your barrel gets so hot that if you don’t pause for a moment and urinate on it to cool off, it could explode and become another weapon of destruction to you.

And as we are firing, after sometime, we run short of ammunition, while they keep coming from right, back and centre, shouting ‘Alahu Ak bar’ and shooting at us. Sometimes, they don’t even come close, they stay afar and launch Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG), one grenade can bring down a 3- storey building, and they come with over a thousand of them. In such situation, how do we face them? There’s a place in Maiduguri well fortified and defended. It will be nice for other locations to be like that.

What makes it difficult for the Air force to intervene?

What we heard is that, when money is released a larger chunk, say about 90%, goes to the army when Airforce could be expecting may be 70%. So, when we call them, they say they don’t have aviation fuel or equipment, and you can’t blame them. But please not that these are challenges we sometimes face. It’s not all the time. There are times we are good and on the offensive and credit must go to where it’s due. But we can be better than we are now.

Is it true people are deserting the army?

That is not a new thing. It only takes the grace of God to withstand all what is going on here. That’s why we have formed a slogan that, a living standing soldier is better than a dead general. It forms the basis for desertion, because if you are alive, you should be able to do something for yourself tomorrow.

What, in your candid opinion, will government do to stop the menace of Boko Haram?

If the government of the day will listen and do the needful:

The morale of the soldiers must be boosted. Provide adequate remuneration for them, how can you be paying what they are earning now and you expect them to be highly motivated. Government should approve money for this war and is approved should be well managed.
Properly equip the soldiers. Look at the way the US army equips their soldiers, it gives them confidence to fight. The money is there to buy these things. Ours is like giving one Toyota Camry to go and fight enemies with Armoured Tankers. We can be better equipped to fight this war. Result will be better.
Where are the hotspots?

For now, the battle is hottest at Gajira, Kareto, Avadan, Damask closer to the Chad. There is this group called Islamic State of West Africa Provinc, ISRAP, that usually join them. When they come, they come fearlessly not minding bullets, shouting Alau Akbar. They come in mass. Whenever the air force comes, we feel relieved. That is only when we have less casualties.

When will this Boko Haram problem end?

Some people are benefiting from it. It will end if the military is well equipped and motivated. If what is affecting our operations are looked into and addressed, things like equipment etc. When you see a tank written 272, the implication is that that tank was made in 1972 which has been phased out. You see the one written 215, and it was made in 1915, during the First World War. Despite all these, we remain here, if we were cowards we won’t be here.

Do senior officers celebrate salah and Christmas with you as claimed?

They do that in areas that are not prone to attacks, relatively calm.

Has there been any protest by you people?

It is an offence punishable under the army act section 63. That is why we are suppressed. Last time they rotated some soldiers and when they protested, they charged them for insubordination. A former highly placed officer who sent troops to a particular route where they were ambushed in 2014 was challenged. Some of those that challenged him were later punished and many of them are still in prison till date

AM NORTHERN ABOKI AND SHOE SHINER.
"Even if I remain poor forever I will never sell my MOTHER for rituals. My brother will never be hard drug pusher, my sister will never be a prostitutes and my children will never be 419 scammers.
Even if is raining heavely me and my Aboki family will go out and votes in an orderly manner and defend our votes under the Sun or in the rain, we will not go and be playing football on the empty street during election periods. My sister will never go to visit her boyfriend to fornicate and have a Bastard child or do Abortion.
When they are busy pursuing western education that derail their moral character we are busy studying our religion morally, that promote conscious mind and good conduct.
When they were busy abusing us and mocking our polygamous marriage, we are busy producing more in a legal doctrine of marriage law, and our numbers keep accelerating.
When they were busy gathering money and wealth for a show marriage at the age of 40, we are busy clebrating our 7 child bithday.
Only one if any out of 100 of their ladies got married as a virgin while our girls 99 out of 100 get married as virgin in the north.
When they were busy sleeping around and cohabating in all the hotels with their supposed daughters and grand daughters in the name of sugar Daddy we are adding more wives and multiplying our numbers.
When they were busy aborting babies for the fear of poverty we are producing more thru legitimate marital means without the fear of poverty.
When they call for democracy we were busy uniting our numbers to dictate for the leadership of democracy.
When they were busy calling us almajiris and street beggars we are waiting patiently and reply with our votes during general elections.
When they loose elections to us the election is rig but when they win the election is free, fair and credible.
When they abuse our choice on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, freely without remorse we reply in a conscious and subtle manner they remember friendship and tell us to withdraw our statement so that our friendship grow.
When they cry for religious agenda we wonder if those video clips by their pastors are Imams scripture.
When they were busy fanning the embers of war and hatred we are busy building and promoting peace and unity in Nigeria.
Am a proud Northern Almajiri and aboki."

Final boss that couldn't do anything for us.

Amin Ya Rabbi.

Jazakallahu khair to Nairaland muslim community for the donation given to me thanks and am greatful most especially to brother Balash may Allah (s.w.t) bless and reward you for the care and concern you show us Amin.

Sorry about your health Sir please don't ignore me.

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Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatulla My Fellow Muslim
Am not new on nairaland but am new here Am a mother of two residing here in lagos with my husband and kids last month i lost my house and entire property to fire but Alhamdulillah for being Alive,The most painful and surprising part of the issue is that uptil date its my christains neigbour and friends that are standing by me infact even the congregation of church around me paid me a visit pray and help in their own way but the surprising thing from my fellow muslim is they didn't pay me a visit or put me in prayers these is the mosque we have been attending and praying in for 7years,infact my husband & kids has never miss prayers there but they could not share in our sorrow,pain and lost.The question here is does it mean the spirit of love and oneness is gone, When will we muslim practice what we preach towards one another?Does it mean we preach what we can't put into pratice.Am in short of words now thinking twice about human behaviour thanks.

Bastard 4 ur own info i gv order 2 JTF, what abt u? Jst shut ur stinky mouth up and hand dat system 2 d owner, u opportunist.

Chimerase: no dnt use bros use ewu[goat] aboki swtie nah, dnt wori JTF no de nairaland no fear 2 call am such

Another Son of a bitch who cares.

Chimerase: come u de fear dt SAUDAH way de sell tuwo, see him aboki boko ram boi frnd no fit do u anytin I dey ur back u hear?

abdulkayus: @Saudah, y are u argueing wit dos brainwash shameless nincompoops who doesnt knw diff btw left and right. 4get abt dem jor.

Thank u my Bros.

U'r d desperate fellow here, Son of a bitch

Airforce1: What are u saying?
Sounds like something a poor lonely disturbed person would say..

Foolish boy talks childishly

Airforce1: Saudah

I forgot u belong to the terrorist clan..I won't bother u again.. I promise!

Chimerase: my frnd u no see dt miss aboki of a tuwo gal ask am, na her business or if she no answer u, dn u google am

Birds of a feather, so evn knw hw 2 google word? Funny.

The fact dat ur mother is an expert in selling Tuwo does nt make me her type mind u.

Chimerase: she de sell nah

U'r a bastard, u knw wat? The truth is always bitter 2 say pls go and face pple wt no reputation lyk u

Chimerase: choi miss aboki awu hausa so u slf de do WAT EVR, wonders shall neva end, wit all dt ur "I FIGHT WIT LION FACE" choi and una go talk western education is evil lwkmd ntin way I no go see for dis TUWO SELLER

I think Ur Mama has d answer 2 dat.

AVWENAGHA: pls nor vex ooo,but u da sell tuwo b.4?just asking o

Wat evr.

AVWENAGHA: i will just ignore u, to risk been banned

slowpoke meaning? U'r as foolish as ur partner

Chimerase: bros de wowo blackie babe no gain much 2day, becos him aboki boi frnd stil de hussle for him own share of 70 birgins sori virgins

Reserved Question 4 ur Mama.

AVWENAGHA: how ur tuwo mkt?

U knw what? I knw wit under age fools like u who don't knw left 4rm right NL wil not b mature, must u comment fool? Unreasonable creature

Chimerase: u re de bigger miss aboki fool, u beta forget ur useless aboki boi frnd cus am sure he is one of dos useless virgin hunters dt were kill by JTF dis morning, all northern muslim re blood sucker beast of boko RAM both de stu.pid elders.. infact u dn sell ur tuwo today?

U Ar a big fool and who told u the Northern Muslims are backing Boko Haram?

okosodo: Boko haram is having is having the unwavering backing of the animals callednorthern muslims and their elders. No need to blow hot and cold, they should all be destroyed

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