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What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ by Gbawe: 11:03am On Jan 16, 2015
Exactly as many of us argued while TANdroids and their oga countered that "stealing is not corruption".


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What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ

A Nigerian soldier who has been on the frontlines of the fight against Boko Haram has identified corruption as the
major factor hindering the fight against insurgency.
In an unprecedented exclusive interview with senior international correspondent of Cable News Network (CNN) , Nick Robertson, the soldier who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, “Not just the generals, everybody in the country wants to get rich by any means necessary,”
The soldier said the troops never benefit from the billions allocated to the defence budget and that he even had to
buy his own uniform.

“The troop morale is actually very low, very low, because we are not issued uniform; we buy the uniforms ourselves,” he explained.
Another soldier, a veteran of African Union and United Nations peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Sudan, said that the army did not have the equipment needed to successfully fight Boko Haram.
“The major problem the soldiers have is they don’t have the equipment to fight,” a video posted on CNN’s website
revealed him as saying.
According to him, the insurgents have anti-aircraft guns, which he says are accurate up to three-quarters of a mile.
All the Nigerian military has are AK47 rifles and small machine guns, accurate up to a few hundred metres.
According to him, the Nigerian soldiers are often given only 60 bullets each, so they quickly run out, but Boko Haram,
he said, has large supplies of ammunition and more fighters.
Although the Nigerian soldiers do win some fights, he said they are regularly forced to turn tail and run for their lives
by the sheer volume of gunfire from Boko Haram fighters.
The soldier also revealed that the Army medics refused to pay the $200 for medicine to treat his injuries.

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Re: What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ by Redoil: 11:45am On Jan 16, 2015
I never expect you to write anything positive about gej.
Musiwa and cramjones are looking for they want to share their pschiatric drugs with you for you to be sane and stop living in shangri-la
Re: What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ by Nobody: 12:22pm On Jan 16, 2015
Ask yourself, if these 'lies' were true, how come our country has never sued CNN for defamation?
How come it is the same youth suffering under harsh government regimes doing the job of PR damage control?
How is it possible that verified satellite images show 3,000 homes were destroyed yet DHQ claims only 150 lives were taken?

I weep for this country and liken it to the proverbial Hell the bible mentions.
We cannot fool ourselves forever.

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Re: What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ by dre11(m): 12:47pm On Jan 16, 2015
charix:
Ask yourself, if these 'lies' were true, how come our country has never sued CNN for defamation?
How come it is the same youth suffering under harsh government regimes doing the job of PR damage control?
How is it possible that verified satellite images show 3,000 homes were destroyed yet DHQ claims only 150 lives were taken?

I weep for this country and liken it to the proverbial Hell the bible mentions.
We cannot fool ourselves forever.


A million thanks for this post
They will always turn a blind eye to the truth

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Re: What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ by Ayoakinkahunsi(m): 1:34pm On Jan 16, 2015
I hope we can rely on this because I would not want to hear some days after now that they knew nothing about this
Re: What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ by Gbawe2: 1:51pm On Jan 16, 2015
charix:
Ask yourself, if these 'lies' were true, how come our country has never sued CNN for defamation?
How come it is the same youth suffering under harsh government regimes doing the job of PR damage control?
How is it possible that verified satellite images show 3,000 homes were destroyed yet DHQ claims only 150 lives were taken?

I weep for this country and liken it to the proverbial Hell the bible mentions.
We cannot fool ourselves forever.

You know some Nigerians are the kings of deception and 419. They will continue lying while Nigerians are dying. This is why the world converged for France over the death of around 20 individuals while there appears to be only compassion fatigue for Nigeria that lost thousands of souls around the same time. These liars think the are fooling the world without understanding they are only fooling themselves. It is their duplicity and deceit that allowed Boko Haram to become what it is today in the first place.

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