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Henry120:
The South African National Defense Force is reportedly considering selling off its Gripen fighter planes and its Agusta A109 helicopters as it has no money to operate them.

According to a Beeld report, the South African Air Force's 18 Agusta helicopters were occasionally enabled but the craft did not ascend.

Due to military budget cuts, the 26 Gripen fighters purchased in the controversial arms deal were also not being used. The report said that the SANDF was considering selling off the aircraft due to the lack of money.

Military expert Helmoed-Romer Heitman suggested that the SAAF was suffering from the state's indecision about its military expectations.

"An air force without fighter aircraft is a dead duck in Africa's military context. An army without helicopters and transport aircraft is a dinosaur in a swamp," he was quoted as saying in an IOL report.

"An army without attack and tactical transport helicopters is a lame duck. A navy without helicopters and maritime patrol planes is blind."


2013 report, but it clearly proves my point.

we all know these SA goons here are just talking for patriotic reasons. the real experts keep revealing the reality. so sad for the SALoanDF

patches689:
It snows in nigeria?

yes. in Jos

mzilakazi:
The true reflection of the Nigerian Army ad told by the Commander who is directly involved with the operation of the military on daily bases, absolutely not lies and fallacious claims that @agaugust is parading to us. Now we know what Nigerian military is.


PLEASE MR PRESIDENT SAVE THE MILITARY
AND NIGERIA FROM COLLAPSING

1. Sir, I am constrain to write you this letter
which I consider it a matter of more than great
importance for me to inform you and put to
record issues that are happening in the North
East (Operation Zaman Lafiya). I choose this
medium to write you this open letter because I
have written similar letter but no action was
taking which I believe some forces have blocked
it are now after my life. Sir I have served in 7
Division as staff officer and presently I am the
commanding officer of 103Bn in the field. My
combined wealth of experience as a staff officer
and now commanding officer are the disturbing
fact that necessitated me to write you this letter.
While as a staff officer, I was among those who
believed that the commanders in the field are not
doing well. But presently, as a commander in the
field, I found out that it is not the fault of any
commander that the defeat of the so called
BOKO HARAM (BH) has not been achieved.

2. First and foremost sir, the Nigerian Army is
poorly equipped in the North East, if all the
battalions are well-equipped as required; it will
not take the Army more than two weeks to flush
out the BH. Presently there are four units in my
location here in KONDUGA including 21 Armoured
Brigade HQ. If all the units are provided with all
their requirements, we can advance and flush out
BH out of North East. Mr. President sir, the
Nigerian Army is well-trained and capable of
defending our nation. It has demonstrated the
capacity to even successfully enforce peace in
other nations. Why not in our own country
Nigeria?

3. The fact about NE operation is that we are
poorly equipped, understaffed, high corruption
from Army Headquarters down to battalion level.
Commanders see it as opportunity to make
money. My predecessor has complained of the
same problem. Instead of ASA addressing the
issue raised by him, the army authorities decided
to Court Martialled him. All the units in NE are
understaffed, but on payroll their strength are
complete just to collect more allowances than
what each unit is supposed to. The commanders
see it as a personal money making venture
rather than taking care of men and equipment.
This ugly trend led to loss of many officers and
soldiers and thereby having adverse effect on the
moral (sic) of troops. Majority of soldiers in the
operation area wear mufti (civil cloths) under
their military uniforms in case there is an attack
and the troops cannot withstand the BH, they
found it easy to disguise as civilians to enable
them escape. This is not the traditional practice
in the NA. Though it is lack of adequate
equipment and poor administration from the
higher authority that resulted to this ugly trend
by our troops

4. Sir, another bad and unprofessional act is
that soldiers don’t take to orders from their
superior officers because they have lost
confidence/trust from them. The case of former
General Officer Commanding 7 Division Major
General A. Mohammed is enough evidence to
show that all is not well in the Nigerian Army. It
will interest you to note that worse cases has
been recorded before that of the former GOC and
more are still happening, but nobody is ready to
investigate the root cause of problems facing the
troops in the field.

5. This brings me to a recent occurrence which
is my main purpose of writing this letter. As I
mentioned earlier, due to the failure of the
authority to address issues that I made
mentioned, when a unit is attacked and overran
by the BH not because the soldiers are unable to
fight, but lack of weapons, ammunitions and
communications equipment, the soldiers on
many occasions will ran away, and a commander
cannot stand and fight alone as a result of this.
Presently seventy percent of commanders in the
NE are facing Court Martial due to the reasons
mentioned. We the commanding officers are very
worried over this development. This is because
we many soon find our self as victims of this
maladministration from our higher authorities.

6. There is no sincerity in this operation; this
is because the present acting GOC has never
visited any location outside Maiduguri town not
to talk of principal staff officers in Army
Headquarters or even the COAS. But we keep on
hearing all sorts of lies that Generals are leading
the fight against BH. These are facts that can be
confirmed from officers and soldiers in this
operation including those in the 7 Division
Headquarters. The GOC is so afraid that even
with the Divisional Headquarters; he doesn’t go
out and always locked himself inside his office.
Infact it is a common knowledge among officers
and soldiers in this operation that the acting
GOC is here to make his money and earn his
promotion to the detriment of the operation. The
completion of his mansion at No 8 Gwamna
Road in Kaduna which the GOC ignorantly
disclosed that when he completed it, will be
among the best houses in Kaduna, has turned to
be a subject of discussion among troops.

7. The former 21 Armored Brigade commander
is facing Court Martial today because the acting
GOC does not want to see him and his garrision
in Maiduguri town simply because of the huge
monthly allocations from the Borno State
government to the brigade garrision. He wanted
to be collecting his money by using 7 Div
Garrison, but in reality 7 Div Garrision does not
have troops to claim such money. It is worthy to
note that the GOC received 33,000litres of AGO
and PMS each, 600 bags of rice monthly from
Borno State government. All these items are
diverted for his personal use.

8. Recently the newly appointed 21 Brigade
commander lead 3 units to flush out the BH, that
operation was successful, almost 300 BH were
killed, weapons and vehicles were recovered from
them, in the process the troops exhausted their
ammunitions from the Div, the GOC simply
replied that there was no ammunition this made
all the troops to withdraw back to KONDUGA.

9. Presently more than 3000 officers and
soldiers are either killed in action, deserted,
captured as POW or on AWOL. But due to lack of
proper administration the army directed that
their salary should be stopped. This affect the
families of those that are either genuinely killed
in action or captured as Prisoners of War. It has
also affected some of the troops that are still
participating in this operation.

10. Mr. President sir, if all issues raised in this
letter are not urgently address, the Nigerian Army
will soon be history and by implication there will
be no country called Nigeria. No country without
strong army will survive. I decided to write you
this letter because the life of officers and soldiers
trusted in my care are no longer save. My life is
also at the stake because the NA authority as
usual will say I have communicated directly to
you as the Commander in Chief of the Armed
Forces and may sanction me. As a citizen of this
country and a commander in the operational
area, with all the points I have mentioned in this
letter, it is clearly that the Military authorities
have failed the country, as such they should be
held liable for their misdeeds. I have consulted
seasonal constitutional lawyers if writing you
this letter will be an offence, but they said it is
my constitutional right to inform the C in C
about what is happening in the NE and within
the military which if not address will affect the
survival of Nigeria.

you forgot yo post the source of your fake letter mr man.

SiriusBlack:
Oga henry, pls check your mail.

brossss!!! na me don miss you pass o. good to know you're okay.

CAMNEWTON4PRES:
trust me the day Cameroon will work against Nigeria or with france is the day Nigeria will only exist in history book

furthermore as a typical uneducated Nigerian supremacist you need to get educated and get in your thick skull that Cameroon was not a colony and you that is not shitty , big and def not a colony what are you waiting for ? come and take it back ..funny how someone in my thread mentioned land grab and here I am confronting a land grabber, I can only advise you this way, I indeed you love Nigeria do not mess with us , not only we are your only hope in this region but we can annihilate you and conquer a big chunk of your territory if we want, we don't believe in emptiness and are not loudmouthed but be sure that whenever our mind is on something we go to the fullest to have it. I think at this time it is necessary to remind you that Nigeria owe us more territory and sooner or later we will get it back, and before you start crying , you are not alone , you all land grabbers surrounding us will give us back what belongs to us or face the wrath of our imperialistic army, the empire has been awaken, ,our shackles have been broken, we have shake off from our slumber, we have the youth and the will ......trying anything don't cry the world hate you when you start counting your bodies

bwahahahahahaha... this guy should be king in the comedy section.

orobs93:
Apc just like real Madrid full of stars...rochas all the way...

roaches better go and sit down. a man who has finished owerri with sub standard projects. the pedestrian bridges he built is a death trap no sane imolite is ready to die using. dude is sooooo unqualified.

u still wonder why fashola was dropped from the race. dude would have been the best alternative to jonathan. they are both performers but jonathan is too weak to hold this country.

my mum is always worried anytime she sees the news about buhari's intention. these are the people that felt the brutality of this dictator, ( of course i was still a kid then so wasn't aware of these things) not us young ones that blindly support him. (i used to support him till my mum gave me the chilling story of buhari's reign as a dictator).

my question to Nigerians is.. why do we love bad leaders so much and pray for their comeback?

obasanjo was a dictator who governed poorly and still failed under a democratic rule. now it's buhari's turn to take us to the dark ages. what we don't realize is that these people will continue to have that traits of dictatorship in them no matter how they re-emerge. what does he want from aso villa that he is willing yo borrow money to contest for? why isvhe desperate?

i don't like jonathan but the APC will make me hold on to my vote if peopke like fashola don't contest for the number one seat. not these old failed politicians who had nothing but sorrow tears and blood to offer when they had the chance.

Nigerians, please vote wisely

ActivateKruger:
But the problem is that, you're only buying 12

bwahahahahhaha... so now its about numbers? surely you must know how many jets make 2 squadrons. e dey pain Una sha.

TheSonOfMark:
Omen.ka, Bar.canista, PhockPhockman come see real WARriors doing real strategies.

BackDatAssUp and Cannonleo: I'm glad you guys are on the side of the Nigerian Army 'cause if you weren't....

One more thing: You guys are frigging scary!

chai!!! you be bushmur.

mzilakazi:
You really do not understand that there are some of the weapon system which will really not adapt well with gripen as a platform. The integration of some weapons might possibly interfere with the effective operation of the fighters' software and thus causing the overall malfunctioning. However, the A-Darter has been found out to be the perfect compatible AAM for gripen fighters. Mr stillchriss, you just have to understand that the gripen system is very complex and is not just another system from SU-30, JF-17 or a J7 system.

it's funny how you saffers always have excuses whenever your weaknesses are exposed.

you bought an expensive hardware you need permission to fully use.
did you know that just like our uncoming OPVs we can use whatever avionics we want on the jets?

una dey vex sha.

patches689:
JF-17 is inferior in every way

And what conditions do you speak of?

You get what you pay for

no it isn't

so south african is too poor to afford a grippen with full capabilities? is that it?

patches689:
Buy all the Junk Fighters you want

the junk is on par with your over priced and outdated fighter. heck, the pakis will even let us use whatever we want on it if we wish. soooo unlike the conditions the swedes gave you.

sorry for the pain bruv.

patches689:
1) Nigerians are of unknown training and are no where near the best in the continent, confirmed by the fact that your men had to be trained from scratch.

2) Russian training is inferior to Western Training

3) Your emotional nature has cost you an opportunity you will never again receive

1) sure, no training, yet carried out successful peace enforcement operations when SA was still struggling for identity.
and we refused to be trained from scratch, we are not the iraqis... period. the police CTU that recently arrived from intensive COIN training from Russia defended damaturu from BH in a blitzkrieg attack (you are aware that's the strategy BH used and it's not easy to defeat expecially in a populated area) before the army and airforce intervened. that's what we need... intensive COIN training from expereineced professionals. i.e russia, israel

2) no need to respond to that seeing as your pro western stance will blind you from an effective debate. so, whatever floats your boat.

3) pray tell what opportunity is that. is it advanced weapons systems we will never get from the west? advanced infantry training on media? please, enlighten us what opportunitiese we have missed mr patches.. since you are the smart one.

patches689:
Nope, that is literal fact according to a US Embassy press release reported on by ENCA

Your "ranger" battalion completed phases 1 and 2, but will not receive phase 3 which is advanced combat training

i believe the boldened i quoted was whatvi referred to.

yes we cancelled it cos the russians offered better training in just one phase.

mind you, aside from the useless propaganda from the US, phase 2 never commenced and this is among the reasons the training was cancelled. Nigerian army does not need to be trained from the scratch, we already have one of the best infantry on the continent.

what we only need is advanced counter terror training which the US claimed they feared would be used on civilians. a gap the Russians and Israelis have filled and will be backed up wiyh weapons supply without the human rights brouhaha.. so tell me why we shouldn't ignore the US since we have already been ignored.

but go ahead, argue about Nigerian issues with a Nigerian. we know that's how you roll.

Henry120:
They can say whatever they like. After all, the U.S military assistance was all media and no substance. Just like everything with the Americans.

We would defeat this insurgency, that is a fact, we only need to tailor the media to report the news primarily from our point of view, propaganda or not, it is imperative that we do so.

canceling the training was the best thing to do. i watched an aljazeera interview of a retired british army colonel as to why the slow assistance to Nigerian military from the west. the guy made a very insightful revelation that the west will never give the required training and weapons to the Nigerian military because of the abuses in the north. (against BH for that matter). something they do with impunity to terror suspects. (UK had a death squad that targeted terror suspects during their own insurgency), saying they fear that kind of lethal training will be used against civilians. of course he was referring to the military dictatorship that ended like 14 years ago.

we desperately need to overhaul our defence and foreign policies.

patches689:
Training of Nigerian "Ranger" Battalion cancelled before they receive advanced combat training
http://www.enca.com/media/video/nigeria-and-us-diplomatic-row-deepens

Nigerian emotions continue to overcome practical concerns

good thing it's just your usual blind opinion. keep it up.

Henry120:
Fvcking goodnews bra, fvcking good news

i tells ya.

it seems the US media attack has started since we canceled military training with them. i saw one article from a US media saying Nigeria will collapse now that the US has left.

the propaganda war has begun. and i fear it is one our government will lose cos they never learn.

can someone tell this old fool to just shut up already.
so now that he is not in power he realizes the youths
are the future but when he was seeking a sit tight
presidency he was blind to that fact. Nigerian politicians, always forming saints after
losing power. just like ezekwesili. rubbish old monkey

jteku:
Make una no waste una time for nonsense MOCK OPERATION by the POLICE,
but if you care to watch,
heres a link.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVj-M1wK6vw&feature=player_detailpage

haba bros. this clip is just to support the news of an event to come na. not the actual exercise. from the little i saw, it was well cordinated and cool. and it wasn't just the police.

Henry120:
Since none of us saw it, have checked on youtube, and it hasn't been uploaded @Chris, can you give us a vivid description of what you saw?

wish i could bro, like @fynline said, the coverage was just too poor. instead of focusing a little more on the exercise, na the ogas dem just dey interview anyhow. that's why i couldn't properly identify the sbs/dss men.

Henry120:
I hope to catch it at channels news at 10 pm.

don't even try channels. they didn't cover it. not even NTA.
try AIT, they might show it today again.

there was a mock security drill in abuja today that involved special forces from all security serviced. it's in preparation for a possible westgate styled attack ( since boko haram likes to copy so much). The DSS troopers stole my heart with their gear but i got kinda confused if they were DSS or SBS since they both wear black.

@henry should be able to tell cos they wore the standard plain desert like tactical gear.

it was a nice clip i saw on AIT 8 pm news.

i hope pictures will be released soon. won't hold my breath though

tqmbuwal should be arrested for breaching the constitution of he refuses to step down as Speaker. no where in the world does a minority bloc lead the majority in any house of assembly. he is now a minority and has no business being the speaker.i don't know why Nigerian politicians just love trouble like this.

and by the way it is shameful that PDP has not dealing with false and those agbero lawmakers in Ekiti for the recent show of shame over there. what is wrong with these politicians sef

ayukdaboss:
I saw this comment somewhere. Read and please don't quote me again.

oookk. i get it. you are too empty headed to reason on your own and resort to giving me another person's opinion as your brilliance. i see..

ayukdaboss:
Did you watch the video? Why were the APC reps locked out of their House of Assembly? Give me just one valid reason with proof.

i see how you have intelligently responded to my comment and how blind you made yourself from reading the answer to your question.

typical APC tout.

ayukdaboss:
Pity yourself. Are you in support of yesterday's show of shame?

the show of shame was caused by her APC pay masters. and it's not news that the group is lead by APC senior members.

there is no where in history where a minority party in the house of reps leads the majority. tambuwal should be arrested for breaching the constitution. trying to convene a house where he is now a minority? since he was selected to be speaker under the PDP as the majority party, he should step down now that he belongs to the minority. it's common sense.
only in Nigeria will which nonsense be allowed to slide.

the police tried to be civil but the rascal APC don't understand the meaning of civility.

fela was right right all. Majority of Nigerians are like zombies. ignorant to the benefit of these rogue politricktians.

.

na wa o. this group don become political movement already?

mzilakazi:
Nigerian army will lose a bitter battle against SANDF.


Soldiers who cannot carry their weapons correctly will not stand a chance against SANDF.

the same H.I.V invested SANDF? same one your ministry of defense has confessed to being over stretched despite being involved in very few operations with less than 5000 personnel deployed. try protecting your border from ordinary rhino poachers before you can confidently brag abeg.

you are a fool for making me waste my precious data to open this thread and comment(cos it's necessary i do)

Henry120:
You are a Dolt.

you dey mind patch? on the other hand, war crimes against boko haram isn't a bad way to go.( i assume the group is what the guy is sympathetic to. not civilians)