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Who else noticed banditry has reduced significantly? Seems the last NAF airstrike in zamfara hit them really hard. Also NA did several clearance operations in that axis too. I expect the frequency of attacks to increase again next year(2023 elections politics). There was a certain local government chairman arrested in connection with banditry, we've had nothing about him/his sponsors since then. A few minutes ago, I received a message that police arrested 7 military officers for supporting banditry in Zamfara state. I hope they can get useful information from them.

SamuelAnyawu:
So the plan is for them to attack a military base? Was this not how Dikwa and Marte fell?

Kai Nigeria it’s well shaaaa.

I am more concerned how they come out in such numbers and over 50% ain’t decimated. Like WTF?

Even if the town falls, there is nothing of strategic significance they will get from the victory other than weapons. They won't be able to hold the town. If only the military can completely recapture all the territories under ISWAP and hold it in this manner, then the war would be almost won. They will lose major sources of revenue(taxation) used in financing their insurgency when they lose those territories and their capability will gradually reduce till it becomes non-threatening. The only weak point in this strategy is leaving the settlements outside of garrisoned towns unprotected and exposed to raids from the terrorists. Another strategy can be developed to counter that (probably fighting patrols).

I believe the recruits being trained in falgore forests will be used to garrison settlements that will be captured in coming offensives.

How about letting them break their will and force against Damasak to achieve little or nothing at all. If the military is very confident about being able to hold Damasak, they can keep on allowing ISWAP deploy their strength capabilities for the military to wreck so that subsequent offensive will be sort of less challenging. But only if they are sure they can hold the town because the terrorists will be learning everything they can from each of the attacks. Things air support response time, intensity of military resistance and so on. By now, they might have known the strongest part of the town and the weakest. They might have known the capability of the garrison unit and might be working on ways to counter it...... It will be wise if the military is thinking too. For the terrorists to have attacked three times within four days, then they have a base very close to the town from which they launch from. I doubt they've been coming from hundreds of kilometers each time they are attacking. Finding out where they are operating from and destroying it should be the duty of the airforce.
I expect that some of NAF's ISR aircrafts have capability to listen to phone conversations, that should be monitored around the town to know where the commanders are coordinating the attacks from and so on.

Another attack on Damasak ongoing. I guess the military knows they are trying to draw them out of the easily defensible camp by pretending to attack civilians.

This time they went straight to the base. At least one NAF aircraft deployed for air support.

https://humangle.ng/fresh-iswap-attack-ongoing-in-damasak-town-borno/


If the bastards are not bloodied, they will come back again

cutievik:
Guys, I Just saw this on twitter from a guy many here know too well. What exactly do you feel he's talking about??

Attacks of desperation and attacks on soft targets. Cutting of garrisoned towns from supplies and so on. Especially JAS.

NafeesaAA:
Why won't the police sleep? The military has recruited thousands of able men and women since Buhari came into power. The same Buhari only recruited 20K policemen within that period.

The military was gifted a $1Billon by GEJ from the Execss Crude oil account. Buhari on two occasions was dole out Billions of Dollars in extra budgetary allocation to the military. What has the military done with the money? All the Guntrucks BHT are currently using are from the NA.

The Police is the most hated institution in this Presidency, the police is the most under funded agency in this administration.

GEJ was the last President to provide vehicles to the police, the SAFER HIGHWAY VEHICLES you see on the highway are the last batch of vehicles given to the police in 2014.

Shey police that they found 80000 ghostworkers in after forcing the force to enroll into IPPIS?
They have a whole ministry to then that sends budget to the budget office for their needs. Even if they are being poorly funded, can't they lobby like the military? The only reason people hate them is because they project that image themselves.

SamuelAnyawu:
Is it possible that when JAS or ISWAP attacks a military base the Army and Airforce can lay out strategies to ensure 90% of these bastards are killed? The truth is that’s the easiest way to get them in high numbers.

I need your suggestions on how this can be achieved.

Let’s discuss.

Happy Sunday from a Brigade church in Sambisa area

They adapt easily and very fast so the strategy you use today will most likely not work tomorrow.
Few months ago, they attacked marte, the troops there lured them in while reinforcements was on the way to block their retreat but the reinforcement ended up being ambushed because that had been used against them before.

The only thing they've really not been able to counter is the air power and that is where our strategy should focus on. To be honest, it is really embarrassing when we deploy helos and aircrafts and we only destroy less than ten of their guntrucks. Is seems to me that the load out of the air support packages are few and not designed to take out the mobility, just to chase them off. Take out the guntrucks and the terrorists are easy pickings. It seems the military has decided never to use missiles in this war but maybe when the Tucanos arrive, they will use the APKWS to take out high value targets.
I heard that with the delivery of the Tucanos with their APKWS package, all aircrafts in NAF's arsenal will be able to use laser guided rockets with the Tucanos designating the targets. I don't know how true this is but it will be a great game changer if true.

Valkrie:
Enlisting in the Nigerian army is suicidal bro...got men in there and know how it is...Have turn that gesture down before.. !!

It's not even all about me enlisting...on this forum and thread we've got very sound mind with good advice on how to execute this war to bring it to a speedy end and I suspect they are not even military...if a civilian can give such advice what then happen to those who call themselves professional military men doing things upside down thereby prolonging this war?

The fact that you believe civilians discussing theoretical approaches to practical problems without considering the numerous ways the enemies can counter the plans, without considering the numerous problems arising due to logistics, terrain, campaign size, and several other problems, who probably do not even know the maps, terrains, the resources available for the war and so on are better than military officers who live in the crisis shows you just want to talk for the sake of it(no offense meant).

There are a million things that can go wrong with battle plans from the best military strategist talk less of those from civilians without training or experience.

joscofelix2:
i heard attack repelled. uncle sam confirm pls

If this is true and the terrorists use the same guile the deployed few weeks ago to capture Dikwa, then the CO of that town should be dismissed. There should be immediate clearance operations.

SamuelAnyawu:
Hmmmmm pictures of burnt buildings have started rolling in.

Hmmmmmmm

Burning buildings isn't important..... The armoury is. If at all troops will withdraw from the town, they should clean the armoury before leaving.

And also, the quality of NAs recruit is very poor. They are the major reasons for the terrorists capturing towns. They are not trained for counter insurgency like their SF mates. NA needs to change training and doctrine at the depot.

JOSCOFELIX:
the only location in which over 30, 14.5mm guide and more techincal vehicles , if you uss air they will engage you, if you use ground they will engage you, the only location where france drone flew over and never made a strike, the only location in which have over close 200-600 fighter station their. as i say the military are planning for them. it will be and heavy strike and if Gudzamala go down iswap terrorist is nigeria is over

MALE UAVs or aircrafts hovering at very high altitude can take out most of the anti-air and heavy support vehicles with precision missiles. The army can then slowly advance into the town from different locations over a duration of days/weeks with constant air support.
Taking it shouldn't be much of a problem, the real problem is holding it.

JOSCOFELIX:
they are trying to repay the military for killing their leader but God no go shame us. i heard the military are already showing them the way of meet their 72 virgin

No air support??

Sizzorkay:
That was the response i was talking about. Now i hope savanah reporters or whatever the fvk they are called, publish this

If they can't go after the publishers of the article, it is still a rubbish response. Legally ofcourse.
Tomorrow or the day after or next week, these people will put out another set of lies.

DubaiLandLord:
On what basis are you saying the Nigerian army is the best in Africa? The same army that have been struggling against Boko Haram and ISWAP for years? People are still in IDP camps in Borno state.

You can't compare the numbers of people killed extrajudicially by the police in Nigeria to that of the US police killing. The numbers of checkpoint on the Ikorodu-itokin-ijebu ode-ibadan expressway is so scary. The day there was an accident because of the illegal stop and search on that road, the accident happened at a checkpoint before the interchange on that axis. Cars were burnt, people died.

Immediately the accident happened, I was told the police fled.

I asked you earlier to mention any country that has defeated ideological armed groups with the use of force alone in the last 30 years. If we are still battling terrorists and armed groups in this country, it is the fault of governments at all levels. The military has done their part in most of the crises and they are not expected to play the non-kinetic part. The only other thing the military can do regarding ISWAP and JAS is to push them temporarily into other countries and I'm very sure those countries won't just watch you do that.

Checkpoints have their advantages and has helped in apprehending several criminals and also prevent crimes in the past. The problem is not with checkpoints, the problem is the quality of our policemen.
The several counties made bodycams compulsory for their officers for a reason.

People like FFK use ethnic gaps to score cheap political points when it is convenient for them but when they get caught, they manufacture some relationship with the maligned ethnic group out of thin air.

Come 2023, the president will change, appointments will change but the use of ethnic cards for politics won't change irrespective of what happens.

There are over 300 ethnic groups on Nigeria but three ethnic groups feel all the appointments/position should be given to them.


Credit: Tolu Ogunlesi.

As for the claims of marginalization and ethnic sidlining, every president in the fourth republic has been accused of same. The only difference is that the people who play the ethnic cards now have a wider reach especially with the use of social media.

If it doesn't destroy us, it will definitely make us a
Stronger.

JackWolfskin:
Pardon?
I said he wasn't?

I misunderstood you then..... Apologies.

DubaiLandLord:
Are the people of Northern ireland British?

The people of Northern Ireland are UK citizens. The full name of the country is The United Kingdom of great Britain, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The Nigerian government is doing more harm than good by allowing the likes of Sahara reporters and people's gazette to continue to publish misinformation. Even YouTube should be talked into blocking such hateful and diabolical channels targeted at the Nigerian public. The legislators are there passing bills on allowing hijabs in military and paramilitary when they should have passed the hate speech and misinformation bills. The NBC is there allowing the broadcast of very hateful content by people filled with hatred.

The government should stop pretending they are subtle democrats when the vast majority of people perceive them as dictators!!!
Buhari's administration is the weakest ever in this fourth Republic. Even Jonathan deployed soldiers to punch HQ when their trash was too much.

The Defence Headquarters wish to put it on record that apart from this initial 10 bandits, there are no other civilian casualties recorded in any part of Konshisha till date. We therefore challenge anybody from Konshisha to present to the public the 200, 70 or 30 dead bodies of innocent persons, male, female or children killed by troops in Konshisha. There was never a massacre as being touted by some mischief makers.

The remnants of the armed bandits that escaped from Bonta withdrew into neighbouring villages where they kept on attacking troops as they continued with the search operation through Bonta into other parts of Konshisha. Knowing the implications of killing troops in cold blood, most of the villagers fled their homes which were then occupied by armed bandits who kept firing at troops from the settlements as they advanced into Konshisha. Troops repelled the attacks and destroyed the houses and other buildings which the criminals used as hideout for the attacks. The use of abandoned settlements by armed bandits to attack troops is popular with insurgents. The aim is to draw military fire into the dwellings and then turn round to blame soldiers for the destruction. This is common guerilla tactics armed bandit designed to whip up public sentiment against security forces and this is what played out in Konshisha. This accounts for some of the burnt houses being reported in the press. Some of the phones of the dead soldiers were also tracked to some of the settlements. We should therefore blame the armed bandits for the destruction since they used these settlements as hideout for attacks. It will be wrong to blame soldiers who are in Konshisha on legitimate duties when some of them were murdered in cold blood. Some of the buildings being paraded today were actually burnt during earlier communal clashes between Konshisha and Oju, all of which the sponsors of the mayhem are now blaming on the military.




https://defenceinfo.mil.ng/update-on-situation-in-konshisha-local-government-area-of-benue-state/

JackWolfskin:
Josco my guy. How body na?

This 72sf go strong o. Na everytime you de call them.

DHQ has released statement and he is actually correct. Men of 72 SF battalion were involved.

DubaiLandLord:
And I still feel IPOB should be negotiated with. Because If we are to go the hard way, BSN will have the upper hand.

The Nigerian military have not been able to defeat any armed group since 1999.

They couldn't defeat MEND and Avengers, they have not been able to defeat Boko Haram since 2009, they have not been able to defeat ISWAP.

The only thing have been seeing them doing is attacking, brutalising and killing armless civilians since 1999 like we saw in Odi, Zaka Biam, Massacring of shittes in Kaduna, shooting at unarmed civilians in lekki.

How many ideological armed groups have been defeated by only force all over the world in the last 30 years?

I just hope NA has plans for support and recovery vehicles for the tanks and MRAPs they plan to get. And also spare parts..... The number one cause of loss of these platforms is lack of maintenance. Most of the armored vehicles and tanks ISWAP/JAS destroyed were abandoned because they are not movable (either engine problems or got stuck). The PHANTOM II is a recent example. The T72s are still supposed to be dominating the battlefield but lack of maintenance has rendered most useless. There are several hundreds vehicles (armored and unamored) in NAs arsenal but they are mostly unoperational because they can't be moved.

Hoverbird:
Keep on fantasizing till reality hit you. You people just mouth Niger Delta as if it's a tribe, maybe you don't know that the same Igbos are also Indigenous to the Niger Delta. It was an indigene of Niger Delta that led the first coup now termed Igbo coup for convenience and culminating into the civil war. Even the so called Biafra was a coinage from an Ijaw chief. I hope you know the military are having confrontations in AkwaIbom and sooner or later Rivers state would join the fray, many of you especially those from outside the region don't know whats going on. Rivers and Abia have some of the most extremists elements of IPOB if you don't know. I won't even want to drag the matter of a Biafra republic with clowns like you because you people easily bring up this argument when serious issues are being discussed but if you think the Niger Delta region comprising of hundreds of ethnic groups would want to be a part of Nigeria and not be on their own assuming they don't even want biafra then the joke is on you.
You think a destabilised South east region wont harm the economy of the country? most especially when Imo state has a proven gas reserve of over 6 trillion cubic ft(A resources of the future) energy coys are tussling to build refineries & win mouthwatering gas deals this govt wants to lay pipes down to Morocco under the guise of AKK project. Those giants gas pipelines to the north you think they don't pass through the region & are buried in the air ? not to talk of the oil exploration in parts of Abia & Imo and the proven reserves in the Anambra trough.
All well and good let's watch how things pans out, you people will soon learn that the South east is a major gateway to the economic hub of the country whatever affects it with will spill over. For a government that negotiates with bandits, but don't want to see talking as an option for agitations. Everyone knew that IPOB guys picking up arms today is as a result of the high handedness of the military, by the time they win 100% sympathy of the populace it will be interesting to see how the army will overcome a group that will easily recruit 50k at a go to launch guerilla warfare against an already overstretched and Ill equipped military, that even have IPOB sympathisers within their Officer cadre.

War will never benefit both sides, wars never happen as planned. The support of the people you have today may dissappear tomorrow and the war ESN is clamoring for will take several decades on their own land with their own people being the most casualties. The several tribes you are counting on might betray you when it all starts(exactly the way Ojukwu counted on Awolowo). In the end whether win or lose, the cost will be too great and that region will be set back by several decades.

Also the vast majority of Nigeria's gas reserve is offshore.

jpphilips:
Cut off Ebonyi/Kogi corridor, Abia/Akwaibom corridor, Imo/rivers corridor and choke everything inside, the civilian population will be so uncomfortable till they give up these guys, as months pass by, these blockade will keep collapsing to a point where these guys will be denied every freedom of movement, once you cant move freely, get resupplied, the battle is over, one thing is guaranteed, there will be so many collateral damage so those clapping for them should be ready, all is fair in Love & war, nobody is truly innocent.[/color]

I doubt the current administration has the balls to do this.
Another advantage that ISWAP/JAS has that IPOB/ESN lacks is support from a wide range of experienced allies(Terrorists organizations from all over the world have assisted ISWAP and JAS with supplies, tactics, technology and advising in several roles nevertheless, ESN should never be underestimated, they have easy access to the nation's economic backbone(oil rigs and pipelines; whether they have good relationship with the ND is still debatable but we have seen ex militants like Asari Dokubo associating with them. Use of force should be the last resort. Even the military should be advising the government to avoid force for now, there is nothing beneficial to be achieved from it.

Schooling and other economic activities has since stopped in the part of Southern Cameroon where the ambazonias are waging an insurgency, I do not see how the case will be different in the south east. Buhari will leave by 2023 but the damages will take several years to heal.

jpphilips:
Tell that to the birds, we cant have low IQ drug addicts with Ak47 on our streets, it is reprehensible & unacceptable, you are free to keep them in your father's house or yours if you can afford one.

Not when they have the support of their people.... Take away the support first then you will find it very easy to solve. Another insurgency will really bleed the military, especially the army.

jpphilips:
How many law enforcement have been maimed so far? Do you really understand the job of the military? Fulani militia problem is a sub Saharan African problem, it is not peculiar to Nigeria let alone South east, infact we have had militia attacks in NW & NC more that SE, that excuse of picking up arms because of Fula militia problem is lame and baseless.

Agreed, it is the state's responsibility to provide security for everyone, however, the state will do that within the ambit of her capabilities, Nigeria hasn't provided Security for Bornu indigenes for 12yrs since their insurgency started, have they picked up arms against the state?
NW has nearly 6 active hotspots including Kaduna, have they picked up arms against the state?
You dont know what you are saying, very soon, you will understand that Fulani militia is a better enemy to the new one you just made, they are coming, you can cry Genocide later.

It will be very unwise for the government to fight back right now.... That is exactly IPOB's plan so that they can get the sympathy of the people and get more recruits. The best thing to do is to avoid them. The militants will soon start making mistakes and the local population that are sympathetic to them currently will soon start getting tired of them.

So DSS even alerted the CP of imo about the imo attack 48-72hrs before it occurred......
https://eonsintelligence.com/details/news-108923456/imo-police-command-ignored-dss-intelligence-on-the-attack-on-police-headquarters-1287553943

It is not the uselessness of the police that is even painting me, it is the stupidity of DSS. Who else did they alert when they got the Intel? Did they deploy their own men to protect the locations and fend of the attack? What did they do to prevent the attack from taking place when they knew about the plan? Why didn't they involve the military?. The director of DSS should be the next person to be sacked and it should be soon.

iamnen:
Please go through your list of COAS. There are about 17 northerners there and not 13

17 northerners
8 southerners

Thanks for the correction, I mistook some northern Christians as southerners because of the names (Teophilus Danjuma, Gibson Jalo, Chris Alli and others I don't know). Is the Christian-Muslim ratio correct?
My point isn't even about which tribes/religions gets which appointment but about having competent people in positions irrespective of tribes and faith if we really want progress.

Stephandesward:
If this is true and possible, it shows the Nigerian police lacks an effective structure and is merely a business entity, whose in the mafian industry . Federally administered gangsters and it's obvious in the police .

Isn't that how every sector is?? Look at the health sector now, the reason hospitals are non-functional is because we have doctors who have no administrative skills or experience heading hospitals. Hospitals should be headed by hospital administrators, it is a course in many countries but in Nigeria......

We are still supposed to be dependent in many sectors hiring foreign expatriates to train Nigerians while working for us.
Health sector for example, hire surgeons from countries with advanced health systems to come and do special surgeries in Nigeria while also teaching resident doctors. Same with engineering, administration, security and so on but pride and ego won't let us.

Odunayaw:
Whyem15 has been my poster of the week! Dehmmm!

Ah! Na you be my boss oo!!!

DubaiLandLord:
Though I agree with what you say, but, you're quoting me out off point.

Go through my post again, make sure you read and understand what I wrote up there.

But if you still feel you want to keep on going this route, then you must list out the COAS that have been appointed from 1960-1999. You should also add their religion too.

We(Nigerians) have always have FCT ministers since 1976(or 1975 when ABJ was created, it was built with mostly oil money gotten from the Niger Delta) till the Seat of power was eventually moved to Abuja permanently from Lagos in 1991. Can you kindly list out the names of the FCT ministers we have been having since 1991-2021? You can also list the ones that have been the FCT minister from 1976 to 1991 and don't forget to add their religion too

We all saw how Onnoghen was dispose as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria even though it was initially vehemently opposed by the National Judicial Commission... Buratai was accused of stealing, there were even glaring evidence, but today, he is an Ambassador how about Monguno?

See bro, you don't want to go this route with me

Since GMB have been appointing mallams as IGP, have insecurity not gotten worst

Nah the weaklings southern politicians like GEJ I go still dey blame sha

Minister of FCT: 16 total ; 3 Christians, 13 Muslims (by the names)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ministers_of_the_Federal_Capital_Territory_(Nigeria)

COAS : Of the 25 Nigerians that were COAS, 13 were Christians, 12 Muslims. 13 northerners 12 southerners. (by the names)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_Army_Staff_(Nigeria)

Now that you have the information, how has the appointments benefited Nigeria?

Onnoghen resigned after the NJC recommended his compulsory retirement after allegations of fraud.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/324122-embattled-cjn-onnoghen-resigns.html

Good governance should never be about religion or ethnicity. And we should always endeavor to separate politics from governance.