The Nigerian Army has said a new trick used by the Boko Haram insurgents to evade air detection and bombardments by troops was to roof their buildings with “mud and coated sugar.”

The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, said this on Monday, noting that the military had uncovered the trick and would soon apprehend more Boko Haram commanders.



The army spokesman said a factional Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, had been revealed in a terrible state of health and was no more a threat to the troops.

Usman said, “The Boko Haram terrorists’ trick of evading air raids has been uncovered by the Theatre Command of the Operation Lafiya Dole. The terrorists perfected the survival trick to continue their nefarious activities through their enticement, deceit and propaganda. These tricks were decoded through credible intelligence.

“The insurgents deployed special roofing techniques to avoid air detection and bombardment from the Nigerian Air Force. They resort to roofing their buildings and hideouts with a mixture of coated sugar and mud so that the roof will not reflect when there is sunshine. Decisive measures have been taken to deal with this deception.

“There is also no doubt that the main Boko Haram terrorists group factional leader, Abubakar Shekau, is in a terrible state of health and not much a threat. He is waiting for his waterloo. We reliably learnt that some misguided persons, particularly youths, are getting conscripted into the sect through enticements.

“The factions have recruiters all over the country, especially in the North-East. However, their clearing house for such conscripts is at Potiskum, Yobe State. Efforts are ongoing to track those involved.”

http://punchng.com/bharam-uses-special-roofs-to-evade-air-bombardment-army/

Huh?

Rubbish,so what should i do? Fry stones abi?

There is nothing special about Coating roof with mud. The army should not make these guys look sophisticated abeg.

See how they are wasting their intelligence instead of been useful to the society.

I can not See US Soldiers Giving Credits to Terrorists like this !!

Since it's now known, the air should circumvent that challenge

Stuupid soldiers...must you reveal your moves?
Not that i care much about their success anyway

which of the bokoharam?
The already defeated one

So they should use bright reflector roofs shei ? camouflaging in warfare is over a thousand years old and i am shocked our Army is seeing it as a challenge ..Please this is an embarassing statement coming from a supposedly organised military service.

Naija I hail Ooo.
Boko war has been defected technically now

mud and coated sugar.....How do they have all the time in the world to do all the construction if our intelligency is adequate

Another story that smells incompetence

Propaganda upon lies. I thought they told us that shekaru had been killed a longtime ago and that Boko boys are technically defeated.

Its like a defender saying that Lionel Messi uses special boots to dribble past him!


Fulani herdsmen also use special hats to prevent detection and arrests.

Incompetence of the highest order. In what way is letting us and the terrorists know going to help win the war?

NONSENSE TALK

These excuses really infuriate me.
You can't tackle boko haram and Miyetti Allah but can gloat and boost of squashing non violent pressure groups like Ipob.
Shame on Nigeria!

That's nothing a heat seeking radar can't see through

Them even know where BK DEY. Invade them and kill them all.

Another 1bn dollars loading........

NDE army abiakwa ozo.which one be special roof again .Nigerian army only knows how to dance on helpless civilians,when it comes to BH excuses abounds.

HungerBAD:
Huh?

I bet they learnt it from the terrorist in Mali. The terrorists in Mali used similar techniques to evade detection by French drones and several Boko Haram members fought alongside those terrorists.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/www.rte.ie/amp/369070/

Boko haram war,a war that will never end....lots of politicians eat fat from this man made war. From government to government, each administration will have men eating from the war


This is year 3000 and Nigeria is still fighting bokoharam

NaijaMutant:
which of the bokoharam?

The already defeated one

Was it not yesterday the chief army staff told us that the Boko Haram has been defeated. APC lies daily.

THE DEFEATED BOOK HARAM

Joke


So, the Nigerian army don't have bunker bursting air to ground missiles in their arsenal