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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by KanwuliaExtra: 9:27am On Aug 13, 2018
Then result of recruiting from ex and current Boko Haram, Niger-Chad mercenaries.

No WAEC, no common sense!

Chai Baba! cheesy

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Nobody: 9:27am On Aug 13, 2018
Sourcekode:
See international airport....chai....it is well
Is there anything wrong with it?
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by remi2good: 9:28am On Aug 13, 2018
Soon they'll say it's the handwork of saraki�
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by LZAA: 9:30am On Aug 13, 2018
geek8:
The Nigerian Army said calm has been restored at Maiduguri Airport seized for two hours on Sunday by riotous troops, that it described as ‘unscrupulous”.

In a statement on Monday, Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole Theatre Command, said the protest by the soldiers happened while the command was conducting a redeployment of soldiers at the Maiduguri Airport, following a directive to review troops’ deployment in Maiduguri metropolis, to reinvigorate the security architecture of the city.

“The redeployment became expedient after a recent assessment of the security situation by the Theatre Command. Regrettably however, a few of the troops who had misunderstood the development and erroneously assumed it was going to negatively affect their rotation from the theatre of operation became agitated and reacted by firing into the air.

“Calm has however been restored, as the Theatre Commander, Major General Abba Dikko has promptly taken charge of the situation after addressing and admonishing the troops,” Mr Nwachukwu, a colonel said.

“The Theatre Command undoubtedly considers this ugly incident quite regrettable and appropriate measures are being taken to forestall a recurrence”, he added.

NAN reports that the aggrieved soldiers claimed they had overstayed and were resisting redeployment to Marte, one of the towns liberated by the military several years ago from the control of Boko Haram terrorists.

The protesters are part of the special force deployed to provide air defence and enhance security at the airport.

The troops barricaded some section of the airport and fired shots in the air, causing pandemonium, as hundreds of pilgrims waiting to be airlifted to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, scampered for safety..

One of the protesting soldiers who spoke under condition of anonymity, said the planned deployment was against the directives by the Army Headquarters.

“The army special forces deployed to the airport were not trained to engage in ground battle rather trained to provide air defence.


“Our task is to provide air defence. Alas, special forces trained to fight ground battle are stationed in Maiduguri and we are deployed to go and die in Marte”.

Another soldier lamented that the troops have overstayed in the Northeast fighting Boko Haram, despite the rotation order by the military authorities.

He said many of them have spent over three years in the battle field.

“Some troops of Operation Lafiya Dole were deployed and worked for over three years in the theatre and not rotated as against the directives by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.

“The command is directed to redeploy soldiers back to their bases after spending stipulated time in the theatre of operation.

“We have spent over three years in the northeast and we should be transferred out of the northeast and not within.”

(NAN)


https://celenaija.com/nigerian-soldiers-fighting-boko-haram-protest-seize-airport-army-reacts/
Cc immhotep justiceleague1 pointzerom greenback mightguy

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Chuksmonika(m): 9:31am On Aug 13, 2018
Mutinous soldiers,they are capable of staging a coup,their grieviance should be adressed
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by unitysheart(m): 9:33am On Aug 13, 2018
Bethel4Life:
Protesting against ur superiors in the army even tho dangerous shows courageousness



Pls how many likes for this soldiers that protested

That courage fit lead to death by hanging. They knew what they were signing for.

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Otarkpa: 9:34am On Aug 13, 2018
I understand with them
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Nobody: 9:36am On Aug 13, 2018
LZAA:

Cc immhotep justiceleague1 pointzerom greenback mightguy
Nigger area army is a wasted army, as usual.

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Anijay1212(m): 9:36am On Aug 13, 2018
Bethel4Life:


the rate by which peeps dey book space for here ehh.....
Haba!


Make una fear God na

cheesy
No be my fault nah, before i go type my comments finish come post na page 5 i go find myself if i no book space now.
Everything for life this days ma'am na struggle.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by mightguy(m): 9:37am On Aug 13, 2018
LZAA:

Cc immhotep justiceleague1 pointzerom greenback mightguy
lol they should ave kept quiet while the terrorist in chief use them to play chess.

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by ebereokey(m): 9:38am On Aug 13, 2018
If I enter army.I will plan coup and overthrow the president

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Bethel4Life(f): 9:41am On Aug 13, 2018
unitysheart:


That courage fit lead to death by hanging. They knew what they were signing for.
for those protesters,, they know its either they accept or protest which may lead to some small changes...... And as we av seen, d protest was a success
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by RaptorX: 9:42am On Aug 13, 2018
What kind of special forces is trained only on air defence but not on ground battle? Just a silly excuse by the soldiers, special forces anywhere in the world fight ground battles not shooting down planes or does BH have fighter jets.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Bethel4Life(f): 9:42am On Aug 13, 2018
immhotep:

Nigger area army is a wasted army, as usual.
more like terrorists in uniforms

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by don4real18(m): 9:43am On Aug 13, 2018
rafabenitez:
Look at d ragtag soldiers,scared of fighting,imagine US special forces protesting in iraq or iran wen potus visits,its practically impossible, joining d zoo armed forces is suicide
Read it again... They have been on the battlefield for over 3yrs and deserve to see their families.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by don4real18(m): 9:44am On Aug 13, 2018
RaptorX:
What kind of special forces is trained only on air defence but not on ground battle?
There are different specialties in the army. It's just like asking how foot soldiers aren't trained for air battles

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Bethel4Life(f): 9:45am On Aug 13, 2018
Anijay1212:

cheesy
No be my fault nah, before i go type my comments finish come post na page 5 i go find myself if i no book space now.
Everything for life this days ma'am na struggle.
cheesycheesycheesy


peace
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by lacidi: 9:58am On Aug 13, 2018
tommykiwi:
This Government is doom.
Doomed not doom.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Nobody: 10:04am On Aug 13, 2018
Sourcekode:
See international airport....chai....it is well

hehehe lol i thought i was the only one who noticed it chaiiiii......
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Catastrophe1: 10:06am On Aug 13, 2018
Sourcekode:
See international airport....chai....it is well
Very unfortunate. We have airports with a million times better structures and facilities in other states still operating as local airports.
The problem we have in Nigeria is from the north.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Litmus: 10:18am On Aug 13, 2018
Likely social media sentiments along the lines of ‘Nigeria is not worth dying for’, perpetuated by combination of terrorist sympathisers, greenfoot-intellectuals(essentially idiots) and paid enemies of Nigeria got to them, made them self-pitying and entitled.

The soldier ought be devoid of self-pity and fear, as much as can be trained and ingrained in him, as well as deciplined and obidient to the military structure. The soldiers comfort and needs are desirable but not the central point. In return, he ought earn our unquestioning gratitude and admiration.

The soldier fights to preserve the nation, however the nation may be, to give the nation, in surviving the threat, the chance to become the best place for all that the nation can become. The soldier is not there to be picky and to decide if the Nation deserves his or her sacrifice or service.

More or less
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by goodvision12(m): 10:35am On Aug 13, 2018
Did someone notice that most of the commanders fighting boko haram are from the east.of igbo extraction?They dont give us good positions to occupy but positions of death.You will hardly see any hausa man on that deadly mission.May God help us in this country.I wonder what we have done to get this ill treatment from this govt.

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Gracesofar(m): 10:38am On Aug 13, 2018
This is mutiny. The soldiers should be made to face the law. They signed for the job,


This is arrant nonsense and a great offense that can land the Great Nigerian army into future re-occurence. Those soldiers should be court-martialed asap
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by dederocs(m): 10:38am On Aug 13, 2018
Bethel4Life:
Protesting against ur superiors in the army issa sure way of signing ur Death Warrant


yet the soldiers choose to protest even tho its dangerous

fortunately for them,, the protest was a success...... It achieved some thingcheesycheesycheesy(as this News attests to that fact)


LESSON: The Effects Of A Well Planned and Successful Protest Should Never Be UnderEstimated


Pls how many likes for this COURAGEOUS soldiers that protested??
There are shortages of able fighters, though everyone have a right to protest, in the army, you simply obey... thus protest of this nature only boost the advantage of the terrorists.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Gracesofar(m): 10:41am On Aug 13, 2018
goodvision12:
Did someone notice that most of the commanders fighting boko haram are from the east.of igbo extraction?They dont give us good positions to occupy but positions of death.You will hardly see any hausa man on that deadly mission.May God help us in this country.I wonder what we have done to get this ill treatment from this govt.

U r a big racist. So man Gen Irabor z Igbo? and many more generals commanding the theatre are Igbos?? What a pity you will say anything to gain likes.


65percent of the soldiers that have died in north east have been Hausa's followed by Yoruba's and dz kogi pple. How many igbos are even in the north east. What a pity
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Gracesofar(m): 10:42am On Aug 13, 2018
dederocs:

There are shortages of able fighters, though everyone have a right to protest, in the army, you simply obey... thus protest of this nature only boost the advantage of the terrorists.

Seriously that's Guys should be court martialed if they are lucky jailed and if not made as detriment to others. This the army not the fuckung police or boyscout.

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Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by geek8(m): 10:49am On Aug 13, 2018
lol
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Jmk9292(m): 10:52am On Aug 13, 2018
Punitive measures must be taken against those troops... Watch out
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by Litmus: 10:53am On Aug 13, 2018
Something else, Nigeria ought to begin organising and implementing the entire Special Forces training in Nigeria. This is because it is beginning to seem as if soldiers trained abroad are returning with I .T. K attitudes, see Mali. Just as we built a small town (movie set) in Calabar for the making of films, we should build one for the training of special forces. The town should incorporate urban buildings of typical variety, roads, shopping malls, shanty ghettos and so on in addition to obstacle courses designed to look like the sort of things one finds everyday in town. Things like high walls, abandoned vehicles, bushes, gutters etc. Obstacle courses don't have to follow the same old tired structure such as depicted in Full Metal Jacket.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by RaptorX: 11:00am On Aug 13, 2018
don4real18:

There are different specialties in the army. It's just like asking how foot soldiers aren't trained for air battles
Nobody is disputing that there are different specialities in the military, but my point is why call yourselves special forces if you can't fight ground battles. So they are just air defence plain and simple not special forces. If the so called "special forces" are scared to face BH then the NA should just concede defeat and the government give BH what they want.
Re: Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Protest, Seize Airport; Army Reacts by goodvision12(m): 11:15am On Aug 13, 2018
Gracesofar:


U r a big racist. So man Gen Irabor z Igbo? and many more generals commanding the theatre are Igbos?? What a pity you will say anything to gain likes.


65percent of the soldiers that have died in north east have been Hausa's followed by Yoruba's and dz kogi pple. How many igbos are even in the north east. What a pity
you are the bigger racist and a wicked soul.After this your wicked govt has awarded all the juicy positions to hausa people.you come here and spit rubbish.

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