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When Islamist militants raided the northeastern Nigerian village of Izghe, killing 90 people, some government troops dropped their weapons, stripped off their uniforms and fled in civilian clothes, according to two soldiers who were at the scene.

The soldiers said the troops were angry their monthly pay had been cut in half to 15,000 naira ($92) without explanation, heightening their belief that money meant for them and their front-line fight against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram was being siphoned off by officials in Abuja, the capital.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/nigerian-troops-say-corruption-saps-will-to-confront-islamists.html

Out of the 49 years of the nation's existence, the NA has taken a large chunk of about 31 years. The first, second and third Republics failed essentially due to corruption from our political gladiators and the military insatiable appetite for greed and power. More often than not, the military establishment has always capitalized on the ills that beleaguered the civilian administrations and swung the pendulum of the political economy to its advantage.

This trend has been established since 1985 when the then maximum ruler General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida entrenched corruption and reinforced a huge rent-seeking and patronage network. Analysts believe that corruption in the NA was worsened by sharp practices such as over inflation of contract values, diversion of pension funds, drug trafficking, intimidation of contractors, withholding allowances and sundry other vices. Senior Officers heading the financial branch of their arm of the armed forces usually become instant billionaires on retirement. Successive Chief of Army Finance, Chief of Air Finance or Chief of Naval Finance respectively never retire from the service without billions of Naira in their accounts or stashed somewhere.On Friday the 4th of July, 2008, soldiers that converged from all over Nigeria held Akure town to ransom; the city stood at a standstill, the city got frozen. The soldiers that went on peacekeeping missions abroad became peace disturbers at home. the “wipers of other people's tears” started “shedding basins of tears”. Army peacekeepers drawn from across the country to participate in the operations protested the non-payment of their allowances. Authentic sources claimed that instead of the $1,228 that the global body approved for them on monthly basis, authorities of the Nigerian Army were short changing them by paying them only $3,000 for the six-month period.

They claimed that since they returned to Nigeria on April 23 2008 from the operation, which they started on September 12 since 2007, life had been difficult for them because they were not paid their allowances.The atmosphere at the Owena Barracks of the 323 Artillery Regiment of the Nigerian Army in Akure, Ondo State was a rancorous and mutinous one. Hundreds of soldiers went on violent demonstration over the alleged military authorities' cut of the United Nations (UN) allowances for their peacekeeping operations in the former war-torn Liberia. The protest of the soldiers confirms a well tested Igbo proverb that “Cheating brings nightmare to the victim”. Even Thomas Paine said many years ago that “When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect”IBB is believed to have guzzled over $12 Billion Naira windfall during the American invasion of Iraq. From awesome Abacha loot to other Abdulsalam profligacy, from the Niger Dock scandal under Ozobia-led management to the controversy surrounding the removal of Auditor-General of the Federation, virtually all government agencies ranging from federal ministries to the National, State and even at the local government levels, have recorded one case of corruption or another.

Corruption has also emasculated the potency of the military. Until the Niger Delta insurgency, the Nigerian Airforce can only boost of about two battle ready MIG Fighters and few helicopters, the other day; the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Paul Dike, was disclosed to the Senate Armed Forces Committee the pathetic story that the Nigerian Air Force has no fighter jets, the Navy on its own cannot boost of any class A warship except N.N.S Aradu that should have been disengaged from the service as most of its gunnery cannot even function again, the Navy has no single submarine in this 21 st century while Libya can boost of about three. The implication is that the Army has only obsolete arsenals. As the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) begins the probe of allegations of corruption in the PTDF, the Campaign for Accountable Governance through Elections (CAGE) has asked the Committee to uphold transparency, accountability and fairness in undertaking this important constitutional task. The Senate Committee was established following reports that out of about $700 million realized during the 2002/2003 bidding rounds only about $145 is known to have been transferred to the PTDF account. Cases like this are legion.

In January, 2008, the Chief of Army Staff, Ministry of Defence, acting for and on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria awarded contracts to Esquire Ventures Ltd; Profitel Ltd, Century Communications Ltd and Jonny-Way Investments Ltd ) for the supply of various specialist Military items to be used by the Nigeria's United Nations-backed Troops deployed to Darfur and Sudan for the total sum of One Billion, Two Hundred Million Naira. The man at the centre of the shaddy deals is Lt. Gen. AB Danbazau.

Our investigations revealed that between January and August 2008, these companies supplied these items to the Nigerian Army worth N660,000,000 (Six Hundred and Sixty Million Naira) because of the note of urgency expressed by the NA and the assurance that the mobilization fee was being processes in line with Due Process, mobilization fees as provided by the said contract. Of the total sum, only N175,000,000 was paid by the Late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Lukas Yusuf shortly before he was retired. The outstanding balance stood at N476,000,000 unpaid. The total cost of the items when fully supplied was N476,448,000 while the cost of items produced and ready for shipment is N530,700,000.Further investigations revealed that when Lt. Gen Dambazau took over as the new Chief of Army Staff, the Nigerian Army was paid millions of dollars from the United Nations in respect of these military items to be used by the Nigerian peace keeping troops in Darfur, Sudan. There seems to be a clear case of diversion of a huge chunk of the money. Rather than pay the contractors the Chief of Army Staff, instructed that the money be deposited in special accounts and used for other purposes at the expense of the contractors and the welfare of the Nigerian troops in Dafur. Following mounting pressures from the contractors, Gen. Dambazau set up two committees, one of which was headed by Major-General Azurunwa, to verify all contracts awarded by his predecessor.

The Major-General Azurunwa committee after visiting all the depots where the supplies were made, and checking out all documentations from both the contractors and the supply depots, came out with a report which certified that the contracts were duly executed and should therefore be paid by the army authorities. After the report of the Azurunwa Committee over two months ago, the Chief of army staff mandated Major-General U T Usman and Major-General Charles to negotiate with the contractors to give the army some discounts on the outstanding debts and also to agree for the debts to be paid in two installments. Since then, the contractors claim, nothing else has been heard from the army authorities. Sources revealed that these companies have made several demands on the Chief of Army Staff to pay for the Military items already supplied and honour the terms of the contracts but to no avail. Meanwhile, the money used for the execution of the contracts being borrowed funds from the banks continues to yield huge default interest rate of 30% against the companies. Subsequently, the banks threatened to foreclose on the companies' collaterals for failure to pay back the loans.

However, the companies have stopped further supply of these items to the soldiers in Darfur and Sudan as a result of this ugly incident. Having exhausted all amicable means of urging the Chief of Army Staff to pay the outstanding sum and honour the agreement have briefed Festus Keyamo Chambers to give a formal notice of the reference of the matter to the Arbitration court and the appointment of J.B Daudu (SAN) as their arbitrator. The contractors' claims against the Federal Government before the arbitration panel are as follows: (a) The sum of N476,448,000 being the contractual price of the good supplied to the Nigerian Army with 21% interest per annum from August 2008 till judgment is entered and 60% interest on the judgment sum until it is liquidated. (b) The sum of N100,000,000.00 as general damages for breach of contract. (c) The sum of N530,700,000 being the purchase price of the remaining items for which our clients have already committed part payment to the manufacturers, production of which is ready for shipment. Or alternatively, the sum of £358,000 paid as deposit by our clients to the manufacturers in respect of the remaining items with 21% interest per annum from February, 2008 till judgment is entered and 60% interest until the judgment sum is liquidated.

The Chief of Army Staff and the Federal Government are expected to forward the name of their Arbitrator within 15 days of their receipt of the notice. In the court of law, facts are sacred and the military establishment cannot twist these facts to serve its own megalomania. It is also wrong for the military to intimidationcivilians especially contractors. The solution is to pay for genuinely executed contractors. The likes of Lt.General Dambazu should learn from past military dictators like Gen. Sani Abacha that power is transient.
source: http://www.modernghana.com/news/259133/1/nigerian-army-in-the-shadow-of-corruption.html
Posted 1st November 2011 by Nigerian Army: In the Shadow of Corruption

NIGERIAN ARMY DENIES THEIR SOLDIERS OF OCTOBER'S SALARY
Wonder shall never end in Nigerian Army, as corrupt as the Nigerian Army system is there has never been a time when troops salary is not paid.
Despite the fact that the least Soldier supposed to be paid N100.000 plus as stated by the President of CBN, yet even a SSGT is not paid that much let alone a private Soldier.
Soldiers are been denied their allowances like FURNITURE ALLOWANCE, TRAVELLING CLAIM, to mention but few. we're now in November, the Soldiers don't even know when they're going to be paid or not. They were not hinted or briefed about what's going on. Why? THE FEEL OF IMMUNITY ABOVE EFCC.
The question is this:
Is Nigeria Army above EFCC?
Does Mr President has hand in these? If no why has he not taken a step about Soldiers E-payment directly from CBN?
Is CBN president innocent? Or only claiming to be?
You should all watch out because Nigerians are looking, the soldiers are not happy, WE ALL SAY YES TO EFCC IN NIGERIA ARMY.

Posted 1st November 2011 by Nigerian Army: In the Shadow of Corruption

@AUGUSTUS IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS CORRUPTION YOU WILL COME OUT WORSE AND HUMILIATED

CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA

Unfortunately, simply bringing in financial help and military hardware from around the world to help locate the missing girls is only a stop-gap measure for Nigeria: it will not halt the endemic problem of corruption that fuels insecurity.

Nigeria’s government and its armed forces and police are mistrusted by the people – nine out of 10 people said the police were corrupt in the 2013 Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer and 45 per cent said the military was corrupt.

The scandals surrounding so-called “security votes”, which allow politicians to appropriate millions of dollars behind closed doors simply by evoking “national security”, for example, are well documented.

Former president Sani Abacha is estimated to have allegedly siphoned off more than $1.1 billion using 60 “security votes”, leaving the Nigerian military extremely under-resourced. The slow response to Boko Haram’s abduction of the girls is a legacy of an institution not fit for purpose.

In the recent Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index, which rated 82 countries on their anti-corruption policies, Nigeria’s score indicated a very high level of corruption risk. It was criticised for its lack of overall transparency and having no anti-corruption plan in place for the military, no training for personnel, and significant opaque off-budget military expenditure.

http://www.transparency.org/news/feature/nigeria_corruption_and_insecurity

SOUTH AFRICANS CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS IS THE TRAINING OFFERED BY THE NIGERIAN MILITARY ACADEMY....HENCE IS NO SUPRISE THAT @AUGUSTUS CANNOT THINK,REASON AND MAKE A POSITIVE INPUT

https://www.nairaland.com/281409/nigerian-defence-academy-nda-military

Compare to this

These are pictures of an advance militia force in Africa...Atleast a bit better than most Rag Tag Armies....but do not make the mark

@AUGUSTUS INSULTS INDICATES YOUR MENTAL STATE ESPECIALLY WHEN CANNOT OFFER ANY CREDIBLE AND FACTUAL DEBATE AND ARGUMENTS....NOW BANKRUPT OF IDEAS YOU RESORT TO INSULT.......WHAT HAPPEN TO YOUR MBA? WHAT HAPPEN TO YOUR LUCRATIVE JOB IN THE UNITED STATE? YOU HAVE LOST AND SOUTH AFRICANS WELCOME YOUR DIABOLIC INSUNIATION.....BRING IT ON WE ARE WAITING WITH FAR MORE FACTUAL ANSWERS AND CREDIBLE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION.....HOPE ELECTRICITY IS STILL ON IN YOUR VILLAGE

“We hear what people say about us, and it’s not true. We’re soldiers and we want to fight,” the Nigerian corporal said, the exhaustion in his voice clear even down the crackly phone line from Borno state, where large swaths of territory have become plundering grounds for religious extremists Boko Haram.

“Most days we go out to face the enemy in Hilux [trucks],” he continued, hesitating before saying what came next. “You can imagine what happens to a human body when somebody fires rockets on a [soft shell] Hilux. Meanwhile, we all know the money to buy proper equipment is being chopped [stolen] higher up.”

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-07-31-uphill-battle-for-nigerias-ailing-army/

@AUGUSTUS DOES THIS REFLECT THE TRUE STATE OF THE SO CALLED BEST ARMY IN AFRICA.....PURPOTED TO BE THE PROFESSIONAL ONE

In addition to corruption, inadequate armament, low morale and possible collusion with the enemy, the growing rift between officers and non-commissioned officers (NCOs) in Battalion 101 of 7Division based in Maiduguri, has been identified as one of the factors that has hindered the country's counter-terrorism efforts in the North-east, THISDAY has learnt.

According to findings, the mistrust between officers and the NCOs is so bad that it has served to weaken the country's offensive against Boko Haram terrorists.

Investigations have revealed that the rift has seen the parties setting each other up and helped to expose senior officers in the army currently being investigated and face court martial, contrary to the repeated denials by the Defence Headquaters and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, that no officer is being tried in the military.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201406110388.html

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-General Kenneth Minimah has confirmed speculations that some soldiers within the rank and file of the military involved in the war against Boko Haram terrorists are displaying acts of cowardice, indiscipline and desertion from duty and that these constitute the greatest danger in the ongoing fight against terrorism.

THISDAY had in an exclusive report last month revealed that the troublesome Battalion 101 of 7 Division of the Nigerian Army was made up of lily-livered soldiers "whose frame of mind are rather attuned to comfort than engaging terrorists in a battle." Another report by the United States also indicted some soldiers in the troubled states for cowardice.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201407211354.html

BOKO Haram terrorists are reported to have murdered the wife of the emir of Gwoza after they sacked the sacked the town and took it over forcing the emir top flee into the surrounding hills for safety.

Gwoza, in Borno State, has been one of the town besieged by Boko Haram and has been under constant attack. Last week, the Islamist sect laid siege to Gwoza and eventually overran it but because their attack took place during a heavy downpour, the emir was able to use it as a camoflague to escape.

http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/5080-emir-of-gwoza-flees-as-boko-haram-militants-sack-his-town-and-murder-his-wife#sthash.TjcJiKhg.dpuf

@AUGUSTUS MUMU EVEN WOMEN ARE DEFENDING THEIR HUSBAND AGAINST A FINANCIAL BANKRUPTY ARMY

WIVES of soldiers deployed to the north east of the country to confront terrorist sect Boko Haram have stepped up their protests outside the Nigerian Army's barracks in Maiduguri insisting that they will not allow their spouses to go and face certain death.

Over the last two days, the wives have staged protests outside the Giwa Barracks of the 21 Armoured Brigade of the Nigeria Army in Maiduguri, opposing the deployment of their husbands. Numbering over 100, the women have insisted that they will not allow their spouses to leave their homes to go to the captured towns of Damboa and Gwoza to take on the terrorists with the inferior weapons they were given.
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http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/5068-soldiers-wives-barricade-barracks-refusing-to-let-their-husbands-fight-boko-haram#sthash.vk1GtTZu.dpuf

NO SINGLE COUNTRY IN AFRICA MATCHES SOUTH AFRICAN PROWESS.....@AUGUSTUS REST IN PIECES.....CHANCE TAKER....JUST REST IN YOUR VILLAGE AND SELL WATER ON THE STREET

@augustus show us the modern road networks throughout Nigeria as is displayed in the South African map........No country in Africa possess such a sophistication of network and these roads are paved and excellent.....unlike YOUR BUNDU COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA

@AUGUSTUS BRING MORE OF THE NAIRA PHOTOS AND SOUTH AFRICA SHALL RESPOND IN KIND

@AUGUSTUS DOES NIGERIA HAVE ANY FORM OF TRANSPORT RESEMBLING WHAT SOUTH AFRICA HAS.....PLEASE NO DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE THAT WERE USED IN THE LAST CENTURY 1950's AS A MODE OF TRANSPORT

HERE BELOW IS SOUTH AFRICA FAST TRAIN.....TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE STATION

TOTAL ONSLAUGHT ON @AUGUSTUS MUST BE FIERCE

LET THE FOOL @AUGUSTUS REMAIN THEIR LAST HOPE WITH TO PUT A FUTILE RESISTANCE AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN ONSLAUGHT

@AUGUSTUS YOU ARE BLEEDING AND SWEETING WITH ENVY....EVERY SOBER NAIRA CAN DECIPHER YOUR STUPIDITY AND HOT AIR COMPARISON BUT THE REALITY SOUTH AFRICA HAS SMASHED YOUR FAKE GIANT STATUS.....JUST GO AND REST IN YOUR VILLAGE HOHOHOHO MAYBE NO ELECTRICITY HENCE STILL IN THE INTERNET CAFE....BLOODY UNEMPLOYED LOOFER

SANDF SHOW CASING THE NEW AND THE OLD

@FighterPilot this guy @AUGUSTUS has been making a mockery of himself.....says opinions that lacks factual backing and when challenged changes and shift goal posts to another irrelevant topic. To me it indicates the low level of intelligence and debate...which means his MBA qualification is non existing, his claim to be in the US and working for a military company are nothing but a blue lie.....PAY ATTENTION TO HIS RESEASONING CAPACITY AND YOU WILL GET THAT THIS IS AN UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUAL SITTING SOME WHERE IN IKEJA

ON A SERIOUS NOTE

The traditional mobile phone jammer are adopted radio interference technology, the working principle is transmit high power electromagnetic interference signal of the whole frequency band to suppress communication system signal, cut off the communication of mobile phone and base station. This method of interference is simple to operate. Although mobile phone jammer can block the communication of target mobile phone, its coverage is difficult to control, it always interfere with other “innocent” mobile phones, and the high power is harm to the health. The most seriously problem is that may interfere with the base station, so this equipment is prohibited by the operator and radio regulatory commission. GSH mobile phone jammer can set specified area and mobile phone, as small as 1 square meters range or numbers of mobile phones can achieve the effect, and it won’t interfere with the base station.

MEANING @AUGUSTUS IF USED AT A DISTANCE OF 50 KM NOONE WITHIN THE THIS RANGE WOULD USE MOBILE PHONE ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO SUCH TECHNOLOGY MUMU

@AUGUSTUS YOU ARE MAKING A FOOL OF YOURSELF AND SURELY YOU ARE NOW EMBARASED, ANGRY, FRUSTRATED WITH NOTHING TO SHOW OR PROOF....THROUGH PICTURES SOUTH AFRICA HAS PROVE THAT NAIRA SECURITY FORCES ARE A THIRD WORLD, BACKWARD AND CORRUPT

@AUGUSTUS I ASKED ABOUT THE RANGE...YOU DID NOT ADVANCE ANSWER.....YOU DOUBTED THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE AND PROVE WAS MADE AVAILABLE NOW YOU ARE ASKING FOR DISTANCE.....WHY DISTACE OF 50 KM WHICH U FAIL TO ANSWER....ATLEAST THE ARMY HAS GOT AND YOUR ARMY DONT UNLESS YOU PROVE IT........@AUGUSTUS YOU ARE AN EMPTY VESSEL THAT MAKES A LOUDEST USELESS ARGUMENT.....SATELLITE ARGUMENT BURIED AS WITH JAMMERS AND EVERY RUBBISH ARGUMENT.

SIT AND WATCH ADVANCE COUNTRY....SOUTH AFRICA

@FighterPilot I AM ATTACHING A SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE DIRECTORY WHICH REDUCES NIGERIA TO A DWARF IN DEFENCE INDUSTRY AND @HANDSOFCHUKU @AUGUSTUS @CHRIS365 @patches689 ACCESS THE PUBLICATION AND MAYBE NIGERIANS WOULD THINK ABOUT BUYING SOUTH AFRICAN.....IT IS 159 GLOSSY PICTURES ABOUT WHATS AVAILABLE IN SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE COMPANIES

http://www.sadid.co.za/

@AUGUSTUS SOUTH AFRICAN SATELLITE

For access go to SUMANDILA AND CHECK PHOTOS OF THE SETELLITE

http://www.sunspace.co.za/home/

@FIGHTERPILOT THE MOTOR MOUTH PROPAGANDIST AND CLOWN @AUGUSTUS HAS BEEN SHOUTING ABOUT SATELLITE AND NOW HERE ARE SOUTH AFRICAN SATELLITE FROM PREPARATION TO LAUNCH FROM SUNSPACE INCLUDING THE FIRST SATELLITE PHOTO

@AUGUSTUS THE NIGERIAN POLICE IS OLD VERSION THAT WAS USED IN 2000-2003 OUTDATED SEE BELOW MODERN AND CURRENTLY IN USED

@AUGUSTUS A BETTER IMAGE

@AUGUSTUS CHECK THAT ARE USED BY SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY AND POLICE

@AUGUSTUS CHECK JAMMERS THAT ARE USED BY ADVANCE AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

NEMESIS OF NIGERIAN FALSE MYTH

@AUGUSTUS SHAMED AND IN DESPAIR ABOUT HIS LIES AND SWIMMING IN ENDLESS INDEFENSIBLE MOOD...BOW TO SOUTH AFRICA