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| Nigeria: Soldiers Pardoned for 'Cowardice' Refuse to Fight Boko Haram |
| 2016-01-29 |
[BREITBART] The 3,000 Nigerian soldiers pardoned in September after being placed in durance vileYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for various acts of contempt, including refusing to fight Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorists, are refusing their reinstatement in the nation's northeast, where the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... affiliate is headquartered. The military has now begun to court martial eight other soldiers suspected of leaking the tension between the reinstated soldiers and their big shotship to the press. The national news outlet Naij reports that eight service members were arrested after military officials dispatched a Major General to Kaduna state to investigate and find those who leaked the story to the press. Vanguard lists those in jug, noting that the highest-ranking soldier to leak the story to the press is a Brigadier stationed in Lagos, on the opposite end of the country. In an explosive report, Vanguard exposed this month the struggle of more than 3,000 soldiers to escape being redeployed in the nation's northeast, where Boko Haram remains an active threat. The soldiers have refused to return to the front lines because, the newspaper reports, they claim "they were never really pardoned and re-integrated into the Army, but rather, re-sentenced to the war front." As proof of this, they cite the fact that they were never given redeployment letters. Some who attempted to return to their units in the northeast were stranded in the region, rejected by the units, because of their lack of proper documentation. "Since they have been kicked out of the barracks they have not been paid for seven months making their families who live off-barracks begging [sic] for food," Vanguard reported. "But, our experience in fighting to save our motherland is too sad a story for the outside world to know. We are not cowards. We held on for over four months facing Boko Haram," one soldier told Vanguard, asserting that he is not returning to the war front because army leadership "treated us like prisoners of war." "The Nigerian Army thrives on discipline, loyalty and good conduct and if anyone of them cannot measure up to expectation or live by those tenets, such a person is free to leave the army," Sani Usman, a front man for the Nigerian army, said in response to the Vanguard report. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Feh. The Romans gave us the word Decimation. The Nigerians need to look into it. Also, the Nigerians might want to look into the concept of Zampolit. While far from ideal, things are bad enough that either, or both solutions will probably improve military performance. For a while, at least. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2016-01-29 12:39 |