ichidodo:
The frontline is vast in between which boko haram operates along pockets of safe zones..Like the Nigerian army, once you breakup a pocket you move to next pocket of resistance which could be hundreds of km away.You don't hold the ground when there isnt any immediate fear of resistance...Jes like the US Marine tactics of 'Island Hopping' in the WW2 pacific theatre once you finish off the japs of an island you hop to the next island instead of murking about with press men.These Tchad boys are just being mischievious, if you ask mi.

totoakins:
if this doesn't make ppl vote out Jonathan I don't know what will

Qoraxeey:


You should be ashamed that Chad is sending its troops to die in your country. You want them to hop around in your country? You must be very naive to think that you can hop in such as situation - for you can easily find yourself surrounded in a country where no one will come to rescue you

kernel504:
Jonathan despite my love for you, you... Are highly incompetent. Where on earth will such be happening?
Buhari is clueless on national economics.

Change2015:


Why the false hysteria!



#change
#GMB
#APC

Qoraxeey:


You should be ashamed that Chad is sending its troops to die in your country. You want them to hop around in your country? You must be very naive to think that you can hop in such as situation - for you can easily find yourself surrounded in a country where no one will come to rescue you

ocelot2006:
This write up is nothing but ABSOLUTE CRAP. If Nigerian troops were present, there wouldn't have been any need for the Chadians and Nigeriens to liberate Damask. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. Right now, the main Nigerian Force (HAMMER) is pushing in from the South. The Chadians and Nigeriens ought to have stayed put at their own boundaries and serve as the ANVIL from the North instead of pushing into Nigerian territory in search of fame and glory. Anyway, our neighbors have 2 choices: (1) hold their ground and serve as a blocking force in these boundary towns till the main Nigerian armoured force arrives OR (2) return to their defensive lines being the boundary.

Bitterleafsoup:
how many countries fought in Iraq? Afghan? You people need to read more history before commenting, as not to appear ignorant.

GenBuhari:
Ok, then u can give me an explanation whyNigeriens has failed to collect its territory from Chad, then people can decide which version is more plausible.

Also explain why Chad in the meantime is refusing to allow displaced Nigerians back home

What have done to confirm what I have told you before labelling it false hysteria?

Is there any logic in a country not collecting its territory?

Our govt is colluding with our enemies to allow them break up Nigeria.

If it sounds far fetched then ask yourself whether it wasn't also far fetched that Thief Obasanjo should give away resource rich Bakassi against the will of the indegines.

Without any compensation to Nigeria or guarantees about the welfare of the Nigerians on the territory.

This case no different just a different method the break off more parts of Nigeria.

This is why Iam calling for immediate set up of a parallel government because our country would not survive if our current government remains unchallenged.

criminalmindz:
VOTE WISELY

Letter to Buhari from the grave of the innocents –
By Bashir Yusufu
Dear General Buhari; I would’ve addressed this letter privately to you, but in the expectation that you may not receive it, I decided to make it an Open Letter, in the hope that you would stumble on it, read it and hopefully feel some of the pains and anguish that have been my lot. Having said that, permit me therefore to proceed with the rest of this missive from the grave of innocents departed.
Last night, while I was at my modest home in Katsina, relaxing and probably half-awake, I heard the voice of my cousin who was killed in the North in April 2011 during the post-election violence instigated by your loss of the presidential election. With bloodshot sad eyes, my cousin, looking apparition-like, was wailing “Gen Buhari, why why”. My cousin’s name is (or was) Mallam Yusuf Danfulani, a bright young lad originally from Katsina State, who was slaughtered in cold blood and set on fire by youths chanting “Sai Buhari”, like they are again now chanting in 2015.
Gen Buhari, in case you have forgotten, Yusuf was slaughtered in your name even though he never did any wrong to you, and even voted for you against Dr Jonathan. He lost his life just because the murderers you encouraged by your many hate speeches believed Yusuf to be from middle belt or southern Nigeria, most probably because of his bulky looks and brave, patriotic attempts to prevent the killing of an innocent Youth Corper, Ukeoma Ikechukwu. Even though he cried out in Hausa and Fulfulde, he was still not believed by those you (Buhari) managed to brainwash to see all non-Fulani Nigerians as conspiring to vote against you. In this very case, Yusuf voted for you but his ‘Sai Buhari’ killers never believed he did. Like you, Gen Buhari, the mob was baying for the blood of innocents.
If not for Yusuf’s best friend who was with him and was himself nearly killed, we would not have recognized his charred body that was burnt beyond recognition. And thanks to the same friend for recounting to us the little he could make out at the last moments of Yusuf’s life, the agony he passed through and the most important words he uttered before he gave up. It is the same words I heard him utter last night from the grave: ‘Gen Buhari, why why’. Yet, to this day, you (Buhari) have not cared to apologize or show any remorse, but you instead offered lame excuses for the bloodletting you had instigated, and still instigate. I now ask you this: Gen Buhari, must you always shade blood, like you started doing from 1983, to rule Nigeria? Do you recall how you killed Brigadier Bako in 1983 just so you could take power by force from Shehu Shagari?
General Buhari, Ukeoma Ikechukwu himself was reported missing that same day Yusuf was murdered by your supporters, and finally confirmed dead the following day when his charred remains was discovered in a hooded area. Apparently, your supporters had dragged him out of the open and tortured him before finally snuffing life out of him. Like my cousin, Yusuf, Ukeoma was very young and an innocent. Unlike Dr. Jonathan, they were not contesting against you. Yet, when they were killed, part of Nigeria was killed with them; the same Nigeria that you are now angrily campaigning to rule.
Yusuf and Ukeoma were not alone. Six other innocent Youth Corpers were also murdered in Bauchi, where you Buhari, polled 1,315,209 votes (almost 82 per cent), defeating Dr Jonathan who scored 258,404 votes and did not even hit the 25 per cent mark. The corps members were reportedly chased to a police station where they sought refuge. But the rioters, who were raving mad with bloodlust and chanting “Sai Buhari”, overran the station and murdered the young Nigerians in cold blood. So, Gen Buhari, as you can see from the Bauchi result and it’s aftermath, your supporters even shade blood when you win; still you have no qualms. Today, you are prancing around the nation, arrogant and angry as usual, behaving like you have already won the election; and thus setting up another bloodletting if you are not announced winner.
The story of Obinna Okpokiri is as heart-wrenching as Yusuf’s. The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes, in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging ‘Sai Buhari’ rioters targeted Youth Corper polling officers recruited by INEC for the election. As painful death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks. But they were not lucky enough. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters caught up with them, slaughtered and set them on fire. Like Yusuf, these innocents are human beings and future leaders on the last laps of fulfilling their national duty before moving on to a bright future. But it was not to be because, in your name, Gen Buhari, they were slaughtered, sliced, soaked in petrol and scorched. Reduced to ashes in minutes and in the most callous fashion by those that are not better citizens or humans than them.
General Buhari, while you are now busy inciting another violence, please bear in mind that in 2011, your supporters turned violent in whole 12 northern states as they burned the homes, vehicles, and properties of innocent Nigerians, some of whom are also Muslims and Northerners like you and my cousin Yusuf. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters also targeted and killed Christians and members of southern Nigerian ethnic groups, who were seen as supporting the PDP, and they burnt churches across the north. One particular attack in Bauchi stood out as most heart-breaking. According to Human Rights Watch, on April 17 in Giade, a rural town in northern Bauchi, ‘Sai Buhari’ mobs attacked youth corps members in the town. The Corpers, who were mostly from Yoruba, ran to the local police station to seek refuge, but the mobs stormed the police station. The mob killed the police officer on duty and burned down the police station. They raped two of the female youth corps members and then hacked them to death with machetes, along with five male youth corps members. In total, rioters killed ten youth corps members in that town alone.
A lecturer at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State, described to Human Rights Watch how a mob of Muslims chanting “Change, Sai Buhari” attacked and killed several Christian students, a Christian lecturer and four Muslim students suspected of being PDP sympathizers on April 17: He said “Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., they entered the school chanting slogans and shouting: “Where are the Christians and Muslims that supported the ruling party?” They had painted their faces black and were shouting that they needed “change”, the Congress for Progressive Change campaign slogan. The mob had all sorts of weapons – machetes, sticks, and clubs. They started breaking the glass on the buildings. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death. The lecturer they killed was Yoruba“.
Finally, Gen Buhari, let me end this letter by asking you this question: When are you going to apologize to me, to Yusuf’s aged parents, to Ukeoma’s parents, to parents of all innocents murdered by your brainwashed supporters, to Nigeria and to mankind? And here is Yusuf again, asking you from the grave: “Gen Buhari, why why”.
Bashir Yusufu.
yusufubashir@yahoo.com

lond07:


Somebody must take responsibility. So who do you blame?

kasheemawo:
GEJ you see ya clueless life?

uchwar1:
my problem with people like u is that u believe everything u see on paper. Comtinue insulting the president

adezt08:
DAMASAK, Nigeria — Boko Haram’s black flag is everywhere in the town of Damasak, deep in Islamist-held territory in northern Nigeria: It is painted on former administrative buildings and schools, and on the side of abandoned gas stations.

The other unmistakable sign of the Islamist militants’ recent presence is that practically none of the residents are left in a once-thriving town of 200,000. They have either fled to the state capital, Maiduguri, or been killed by Boko Haram. Every looted and battered storefront yawns open to the dusty roadside.

Mostly, the only sound in the hot, still air is from military vehicles, carrying soldiers from the neighboring countries of Chad and Niger as they make their way through the wreckage of the deadly five-month Islamist occupation of this Nigerian town. From time to time, the Chadian soldiers ululate to celebrate their victory against the militants in a fierce firefight that stretched into this week.

The Chadians ushered a small group of journalists around for a brief look at their handiwork this week, offering a rare glimpse into the group’s northern Nigerian stronghold, and into the dimensions, and difficulties, of a cross-border, four-nation fight against the Islamists.


Chadian soldiers in Damasak on Wednesday, only days after the town was liberated from Boko Haram militants. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
Rather than a display of important regional cooperation in the battle against Boko Haram, the visit instead pointed out some of the confusion and resentment that are creating tension among neighbors. The soldiers from Chad and Niger had succeeded here, but there was not a single Nigerian soldier to be found. The force members were bewildered to find themselves as foreign liberators without any help from the Nigerians.

Even as the Nigerian government, with a national election looming, insists that its forces have chased Boko Haram fighters out of much of their northern territory, the deserted streets and all-foreign force here paint a different picture. Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians still cannot return home to towns that have been, nominally at least, freed from Boko Haram.

But the foreign soldiers here said they do not want to occupy somebody else’s country, and worry that the Islamist fighters will simply return if they leave and the Nigerians have not arrived to take over.

Hundreds of miles away in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, officials are expressing anger at the near-total absence of cooperation from the Nigerians in a crucial regional battle, even as Nigerian officials are discounting the extent of Chad’s role.

The disquiet of the Chadian officials was echoed in the words of the front-line Chadian soldiers here who wonder why they, and not the Nigerians, are holding towns like Damasak, several days after the last Boko Haram fighter has fled or been killed.

“We asked them to come, to receive this town from us, but they have not come,” said Second Lt. Mohammed Hassan, resting in the shade of the armored vehicle he had manned with his company.

“It is because they are afraid,” Lieutenant Hassan added, spitting out the words, his face half-hiddenagainst the 107-degree heat in a black turban.

Around him hundreds of soldiers from Chad and Niger were camped out under the broiling sun. The senior Chadian officers tried to shoo away a handful of journalists, but a few of the soldiers, like the lieutenant, still wanted to talk about the battle.

“We fought on the night of the 14th, and the last attack was on the 15th,” Lieutenant Hassan said. As for the Nigerians, “we called them on the 16th” — after the fight for Damasak had ended — “and told them to come; they didn’t believe we were here,” Lieutenant Hassan said.

More politely, his country’s foreign minister, Moussa Faki Mahamat, two hours away by military transport plane and helicopter in N’Djamena, offered a similar appraisal in an interview Thursday.

Soldiers from Chad played cards in Damasak. The force members were bewildered at having become foreign liberators without any help from the Nigerians. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Nigerian Army has not succeeded in facing up to Boko Haram,” Mr. Mahamat said.

“The occupation of these towns, this is up to Nigeria,” he added. “My fondest wish is that they assume their responsibilities.”

The soldiers around Lieutenant Hassan, savoring their victory over Boko Haram, displayed a pile of battered rifles captured from the Islamists, some with Arabic exhortations on the stocks. The men said they had thoroughly searched the looted town and its parched savanna surroundings in the past two days, and there was not a single Boko Haram fighter to be found.

The fight was definitely over, several of the men said with satisfaction, noting with wonder the strange fighting habits and beliefs of their opponents.

“You would say that these are people ready to die, to commit suicide,” Lieutenant Hassan said.


He recounted how, after the battle, a Boko Haram prisoner seemed terrified by the Chadians’ superior matériel — Chad has perhaps the region’s best-equipped army after decades of war, civil and external. The captured fighter insisted that the lieutenant’s armored personnel carrier was self-driving and ate its opponents.

As a convoy of military vehicles rumbled down the deserted main street, a solitary older couple could be glimpsed at the back of a mud-walled compound. The woman raised clenched fists to the sky, despairingly, as the trucks passed. The soldiers said that the handful of people left in Damasak were simply too feeble to move.

Boko Haram captured the town late in November, according to Nigerian news accounts. The fighters infiltrated Damasak’s extensive market — on the border with Niger, and close to Cameroon, it was until recently a major regional trading hub — and killed merchants there to sow terror in the population, its customary method. Another group of fighters was waiting at the town’s edge and overran government buildings as the remaining soldiers were occupied at the market.

Since then, Damasak had become a regional headquarters for Boko Haram, officials in Maiduguri said. “Damasak is where they were doing their planning and operational business,” said an official close to the governor of Borno State, of which Maiduguri is the capital.

The number of substantial buildings bearing the Boko Haram insignia was testimony to the town’s strategic role for the group. “They were coordinating and doing all their training there,” the official said.

Now Damasak, like much of northeastern Nigeria, is in a vacuum. Boko Haram has been chased away for now, but it is not clear that the Nigerian Army is ready to occupy and hold this and other towns.

“It is up to them to hold the town. Not us. Our role is offensive. Our mission is to chase the terrorists,” Lieutenant Hassan said. “But they are afraid,” he repeated angrily.

“Our biggest wish is that the Nigerian Army pulls itself together — that it takes responsibility in the towns,” said Mr. Mahamat, the Chadian foreign minister. “We are ready to disengage, right away.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/world/africa/nigerian-army-noticeably-absent-in-town-taken-from-boko-haram.html

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GenBuhari:
If it doesn't make sense it is because we are being deceived.

Boko Haram = Chadian troops

Nigerian corrupt government is in collusion with Chad and Boko Haram.

Why do you think that towns that are being captured by Chad are not being handed over to Nigeria?

Why do you think the residents of those towns are not being allowed to return.

Nigerians please wake up, Nigeria is being broken up and those territories under Chadian control will eventually be annexed by them.

Our government has accepted to deceptively allow the break up of Nigeria all in the name of pleasing their masters (America and Europe ) who are instructing them to allow the break up of Nigeria whilst keeping us Nigerians in the dark.

One day we would wake up to hear that Chad , Cameroon and Niger have decided to keep onto captured Nigerian territory and the UN has voted to allow them to annex those territories.

They began breaking up Nigeria when Thief Obasanjo (America's most loyal house slave) handed Bakassi over to Cameroon.

Can we see what is happening ?

Don't we even care?

ocelot2006:



Before you post, at least get your facts straight. Yesterday, the Chadians and Nigeriens on All Jazeera called for occupants of Damask to return home, yet you say otherwise. You also claim that Nigeria has faiked to retrieve its land from the Chadians when both forces are YET to link up. Enough of all these your conspiracy theories.

Defcon1:

So you didn't read where 2nd Lt Hassan said they fought on the 14th and 15th,won, and called the Nigerian army to take over.

Did you not also read where the Chadian foreign minister said Nigeria had been invited to take over the town ,but were yet to do so

GenBuhari:
Do you believe what u wrote?

Why would Nigeria need to begged to collect it's own territory?

oneda:
New york times? Americans? These people should just leave Nigeria alone

GenBuhari:
Do you believe what u wrote?

Why would Nigeria need to begged to collect it's own territory?