AKUKO- # UWA.
WE 'LL NAME BOKO HARAM COLLABORATORS
IN MILITARY HIERARCHY IF...
...AGGRIEVED SOLDIERS WARN.
Published on Monday, 22 September 2014
06:50
Written by Our Reporter
JUNIOR officers of the Nigerian Army have
threatened to expose senior military officers
who collaborate with the Boko Haram
insurgents in protest of the death sentence
passed on their colleagues by the military
martial court that tried them for mutiny.
According to our source, Nigerian soldiers
are fiercely proud of their exploits and
anything that makes them lose face must be
dealt with squarely. This according to him
was responsible for the alleged mutiny which
led to the court marshalling of some of their
colleagues. Our source, a serving soldier who
pleaded anonymity said that the unfortunate
uprising leading to the attack on the vehicle
of the General Officer Commanding the 7th
Division of the Nigerian Army, General
Ahmed Mohammed was as a result of poor
tactics in the field.
He pointed out that the residents of Bama
still nurse contempt for the soldiers because
of the mistakes they made during the battle
of Bama. But they did not know that it was
not the fault of the soldiers in the field
rather the tactical mistakes came from their
superiors which culminated in the alleged
mutiny against the former General Officer
Commanding GOC of the 7th Division.
The soldiers claim that the Defence
Headquarters should be blamed because they
failed to heed to their complaints. According
to the soldiers, General Mohammed, our
source said, has had his strategies queried
several times because it all led to failures.
His tactical ability has been a concern since
he was made the GOC of the Division. His
soldiers have even complained to the hearing
of Abuja that he is fond of taking decisions
that lead to wrong judgments and deaths of
the soldiers and civilian.
They said that this has been going on even
before the first visit of the Chief of Army
staff General Kenneth Minimah to the north
east to cheer the soldiers.
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haram-collaborators-in-military-hierarchy-if .
However, regardless of what the soldiers did
which culminated in the said mutiny, many
within the barracks are of the views that too
many mistakes have been made by the senior
military officers and politicians who have
been managing this insurgency. It is these
mistakes that have led to pent up frustration
by the soldiers and subsequent attack on the
GOC which the high command of the Army is
hurrying to nip in the bud with death
sentences against the 12 soldiers instead of
addressing the grievances of the soldiers, our
source say.
General Chris Olukolade in one of his visits
to the Division this year actually told this
reporter that the essence of using this
approach to manage the crisis was to set an
example so that other divisions do not get
infected by what he called insubordination
and mutiny.
However some within the military circles are
worried because the strategy may not work.
A retired military officer who spoke with
National Daily in Maiduguri during the week
warned that if the condition of service fails
to improve, there will be no guarantee that it
will force the soldiers to keep mute, warning
that it may even lead to a silent rebellion in
all the Army divisions right now knowing that
this trial was directed at the men and not the
officers who should share in the blame. Add
to that, the retired officer who would not
want his name mentioned said that rumoured
retirement of General Ahmed Mohammed,
the man in the eye of the storm may not go
down well with the junior officers, he said.
From our investigations within the ranks of
the soldiers, the very trial itself was a
mistake. Instead of management placating
the men who have been fighting and losing
their lives to a rag tag war being fought by
the government who have failed to declare a
full scale war against insurgents who are
treating them as enemies, they have declared
a silent war against soldiers. This has turned
to a serious quandary in all the battalions
under the 7th Division.
During our investigations, we found that
most of the rank and file of the 7th Division
of the Army received the news of the
sentence of their colleagues with shock. Most
of them are really bitter and have vowed to
respond accordingly if the sentence was
carried.
According to one of the military sources
"Our generals have not been carrying
soldiers along. They treat us as if we are still
in the 1960's when soldiers did not go to
school before the civil war.
Soldiers are now educated. A lot of those
who they treat like ignoramuses have quality
certificates including degrees. So it is not
true that we do not know our rights we know
all our rights but we do not have anybody
who will see our plights and adjust the army
act to give us fair dealings.
These generals are really cheating us. They
treat us as if we do not matter when it is us
the soldiers that make their lives go on.
"If people think we complain too much
because the job is about obeying and
complaining later then they are getting it
wrong. We have been complaining that way
because there is no general who do not have
one of us as his orderly or batsman yet they
do not feel our pains.
They know we know their secrets which are
why they think this Court Marshall may make
us submit, it is not possible.
"Let me tell you, our colleagues are their
batmen and they know so much about their
secrets. This job is about keeping secrets but
very soon we will start to expose them
because we have evidence that so many of
them are members of boko Haram.
What happened to those who were fingered
in dangerous Boko Haram deals, the thing
just died a natural death isnt it?
Now they want to kill our colleagues. We are
waiting to see how they will do that. If they
eventually kill those colleagues of ours, I
swear there will be repercussions, very
daring ones.
On the situation on ground in the 7th
Division he went on:"The barracks is tensed
up now and we do not know how the
battered morale of our colleagues will be
built up in case of any eventuality. I was
trained to fight war with the right
equipments, not to go and deliberately
expose myself to be killed.
So many of our colleagues have been killed,
we buried more than 100 corpses in a month
at the Marmalari Barracks Cemetery. Many of
them are buried without the knowledge of
their next of kin which is wrong.
How will you not inform the next of kin
about somebody's death immediately it
happened only for them to get to know when
it is time to evacuate them from the
barracks?
"My brother we live in a country of different
laws for different people,
if not why would they fix a different law for
themselves with full honours when they pay
the supreme price and a different law for us
if not for corruption which has crept into
our institution? That is a wrong which must
be redressed by the National Assembly
because left to our generals; this old colonial
behaviour is ok by them.
Mark my word, we expect our colleagues to
appeal but at the end of the day if this
judgment is carried, the whole army will be
divided between officers and men because
we are their drivers, cooks, orderly, batmen
and everything you think of, they rely on us,
including their very lives.
No general can live without the soldier but
we can live without them. That court
Marshall Judgment is faulty.
"We are not rebellious as General Olukolade
is painting us in some of his pronouncements
we read in the media.
We are rather very loyal soldiers of the
Nigerian Army and the behaviour of those
sentenced to death is just a signal that they,
the officers will not be safe if they kill our
people unnecessarily.
How many do they want to kill? We have a
common enemy Boko Haram inside this very
state, instead of them to rally round the
soldiers and the people to get to the root,
they are using oppression. We are waiting to
see who will fire the shots at the firing range
and where they will get the soldiers from to
do the job."
Another soldier told this reporter that the
country could be dismembered completely if
the accused soldiers were shot because his
colleagues have planned to abandon their
stations for the officers to fight the
insurgents themselves, and if that happens, it
means the insurgents could go as far as
Abuja without anybody stopping their trail of
impunity the way they have been contained
in the north east.
He said he was not happy with the way the
judiciary has been handling a lot of these
impunity cases brought before them adding
that they were supposed to set examples for
the country to remain united. He cited the
case of major Hamza Mustapha who had
committed so many atrocities yet was
released by the same judiciary.
He went on: “my brother, officers are
symbols of the unit, but we are the people
that hold the unit. The contents of any unit
are the real soldiers, without that unit you
will not be talking to me in Maiduguri by
now.
It is the same unit that forms the Chief
Clerks,
drivers of officers,
batmen,
RSM and many others who protect and take
care of both the doctors and the wounded in
MRS.
They form the core of the fighting men. It
has been so from time in memorial and it is
time, they begin to seek our advice in
anything concerning us and our very welfare.
We want all the rights our international
colleagues are enjoying be restored to us.
When soldiers pay the supreme price, they
should be recognized. They have refused to
declare full scale war and it has opened a
can of warms and if they do not want us to
be exposing them; they should give our next
of kins accesses to our remains if we pay the
supreme price.
Why are they playing politics with people's
lives by refusing to give us the right
equipments and the matching orders to fight
a full scale war?
Why should field commanders ask for
permission before routing out insurgents? He
asked angrily.
Meanwhile, while the soldiers continued their
campaign for better conditions of service
including increased field allowance available
in a full scale war, several skirmishes have
been heard between Konduga and the Mafa
axis of the town where insurgents of Boko
Haram have taken over several towns and
villages.
The fracas of 11th September led by Col
Danladi Hassan of the 103 Battalion led to a
big catch, a serving soldier of the Nigerian
Army who has been helping the enemy was
recaptured from the Boko Haram intruders.
He is believed to be undergoing debriefing
sessions to neutralize the radicalization he
may have gone through in the hands of the
Sambisa war Lords. Lots of items were
recovered including: 5 Toyota Hilux vehicles,
4 Buffaloes Land Cruisers,
35 FN Rifles,
39 ak47 Rifles,
6GPMG,
9RPG's and 2 Boko Haram flags meant to be
planted somewhere.
Since last week, residents in the Maiduguri
metropolis could not sleep because the close
gun battles. There are indications that the
insurgents are dead serious about getting to
Maiduguri. They had a grand plan to come
from different angles. And based on their
plans some of them moved down to Gamju,
close to Beneshiek, a strategic town along
the Damaturu, Maiduguri road.
Indeed no one is praying for an invasion of
the state capital the way the insurgents have
been successful in some major towns and
villages in northern Borno state.
They are really not resting in their oars
because they have been radicalised to believe
that capturing Maiduguri is a divine duty
which must be fulfilled even if it takes the
rest of this decade, said a source who knows
about the insurgents.
But the gallant soldiers are not giving an
inch, as at Wednesday morning, this reporter
was around West-End Roundabout which
connects Customs Area. A long convoy of
battered tanks and Toyota Hilux fighter
vehicles were being ferried back to
Marmalari Barracks where it rightly
belonged.
Three of the tanks had massive inscriptions
of the insignia of the haramists in arabic.
On Thursday about the same time another
convoy was ferried to their Divisional Base in
Barga Road. This means they had converted
stolen tanks of the Nigerian Army and the
7th division was fully in control of these
tanks seized from theirs failed attempt to
overrun the infantry soldiers at Konduga.
For the first time in a long while soldiers
smiled at the citizenry and the people hailed
them. Shouts of well done, well done, rented
the air with lots of people waving at the
victorious warriors.
Sources say that the hero of this latest
conquest is Col. Danladi Hassan who was said
to be actively involved in the fields.
Residents of Maiduguri are in high spirit with
many praying for an end to this war. From
every indication, the soldiers are having the
upper hand. —

All this ''i will i will'' is begining to piss me off . If you know them name them now all forever remain silent.

OK

The Soldiers are just making noise.

Why are they playing politics with people's
lives by refusing to give us the right
equipments and the matching orders to fight
a full scale war?
Why should field commanders ask for
permission before routing out insurgents? He
asked angrily.

Jonathan

@kel4soft, sharaaap you bloody idiat.

toooooooooooooooo long..

This post is a lie. Everyone now fabricates non-sense and dumps them online.

I give up is too long

SOUNDKING: @kel4soft, sharaaap you bloody idiat.

If I support the Soldiers, sane una go insult me.

You guys should stop playing hide and seek with us, we are not first grade fools....maybe second grade, but def not first.