Jake B:

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I am aware that this is a tribute to the nigerian military but i think im entitled to voice my disagreement just as you are entitled to voice yours, as i said earlier i do not think the nigerian military have done anything for the nigerian people worth celebrating.

Has nigeria ever fought and defeated an external enemy?

the nigerian military can't even guarantee the safety of its own citizens INSIDE the country (Jos) so why the celebration?

the tanks, guns, planes etc are simply being used for THEIR OWN PROTECTION not for the protection of the nigerian people and it's territory.

This military hardware is being stockpiled to be used against nigerian citizens should there be any attempt to resist IBB's bid for the presidency come 2011.

It is very funny also cos if Nigeria was wasting money on such expensive armament, you will be the same one's complaining that people are hungry and don't have light, blah, blah.blaaahh.

ROSSIKE:

cap28 said:

You are wrong.

What exactly do you expect the Nigerian army to do for the people that would be ''worth celebrating''? As far as I know we've not been attacked by any nation, so what is our military supposed to do? Invent an ''enemy'' and start a shooting war just to please you?

Do you suggest we send emails round to various nations seeking a combat opponent?

Or are you suggesting we attack neighbouring territories in order to fulfill your condition of having ''fought and defeated an external enemy''?

The US army could not guarantee the safety of its citizens on 9/11. The US army cannot guarantee the safety of citizens in its major cities, each of whose murder rate is in the thousands per year!

Lesson: Shhit happens. No country's military on earth can ''guarantee'' anything!

And why exactly does the govt need hundreds of jet fighters, warships and tanks for protection against an unarmed civilian population

That's the strangest thing you've written.

I see. So NOW that IBB has been rejected by his northern constituency in favour of Atiku, are we to expect the Nigerian military to launch attacks against Nigerians soon in defence of IBB's ambition?

lordangers:

lol the Nigerian Police have stretch limo jeeps in armoured plateing. Wouldnt mind getting arrested in that

xterra2:

^^^ When he ordered Peace Keepers out of his country?
So should we be like US that interfere with matters of other countries ? No

always go to Cnn.com everyday, and read the news

xterra2:

^^ My first line meant that no one would send peacekeepers there , he ordered them out, by reality no one would send any peacekeepers in

. . .but what the nigerian govt could do is trim the bloated army and spend those billions of dollars that it wastes on "defence" on adequate housing, constant electricity, running water. . . .

I dont know if you are aware of this but nations that spend vast sums of money on military defence tend to be either imperialist nations ie with expansionist objectives like the US or repressive ones  - ie with the objective of crushing dissent or opposition within their own countries like nigeria.  Other developed nations like britain, germany, france can AFFORD to allocate huge sums on military defence because they do not have the same type of socio economic problems that nigeria has such as mass poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, inadequate health care etc

Does it make sense to you that despite not being at war with any nation we allocate huge sums of money towards the purchase of military hardware - can you justify for me why this is important?

Funny!!!! but the jokes on you who does not seem to think that there is something wrong with spending huge sums of money on defence while 70% of the population live on $1 a day.

My point was this : nigeria has never fought or defeated an external enemy, neither has it been under threat of invasion therefore it makes no sense allocate huge sums of money on defence when that revenue could be put to better use.

Aside from brutalising, maiming and killing innocent civilians within their own country  and committing genocide against the igbos during the nigeria/biafra civil war i do not recall any time that the nigerian military's "greatness"  or courage has ever actually been tested. 

Before you mention ECOMOG please remember that nigeria were performing a peace keeping role only and were not engaged in protracted combat also nigeria was instructed to send troops to liberia and sierra leone by the US who did not want to comitt their own troops to these areas, i would therefore describe the ECOMOG project as nigeria doing america's dirty work.

have you ever heard of americans being massacred by rampaging lynch mobs on american soil with the american military standing helplessly by and doing nothing? It beggars beleif that you would compare a plane being flown into the world trade centre by alleged terrorists with a rampaging lynch mob. 

Try telling that to the indigenes of Odi, Gbamaratu and Zaki Biam where soldiers rampaged through their villages ra.ping, shooting, maiming and brutalising innocent unarmed civilians before burning entire villages to the ground, have you ever heard of western soldiers perpertrating such atrocities on their own people?

I see  you are  yet to awaken from your deep slumber, okay this is how it works - when you run a dictatorship like nigeria you keep people in line by way of violence, terror and repression, that is what all those unmanned drones, militarised police , JTF , automatic weapons, tanks, are for - to kill, maim and brutalise any potential threat, to crush any form of opposition from the nigerian populace  - do you get it now?

kikuyu1:

But WTF is up with those 50 year old F7s. Come on Naija isn't Gambia or Sierra Leone!