480 NIGERIAN SOLDIERS FLEE INTO CAMEROON DURING A BATTLE AGAINST BOKO HARAM

  I woke up this morning very disappointed and with my self esteem seriously daunted. I couldn´t believe what I was reading on the social media until I consulted with different online Nigerian newspapers to confirm the shameful story that was trending, that more than 400 Nigerian soldiers fled the battle against the Boko Haram into neighboring Cameroon Republic because of shortage of ammunition. Oh, my God, has our incompetence as a nation gotten this bad? A standby military unit fleeing from a nomadic terrorist group that needs first to regroup themselves before employing logistic support to move their weapons and their field soldiers into the battle field?

  What exactly is happening in Nigeria? Who are these Boko Haram people? And why does it appear to me as if they have better intelligence unit and even ammunitions than the federal government troops? Why is it that nobody on the Nigerian government side is honorably retiring for gross incompetence? And if it is true that all our neighboring countries; Niger, Chad and Cameroon have beefed-up surveillance in their sides of the borders, then how are these unfinished arms and ammunitions getting into the hands of the Boko Haram, so much so that our own federal government troops ran short of ammunitions and the Boko haram group did not run out of supply?

  It is past a 130 days since Boko Haram abducted some innocent Nigerian girls from their school where they were writing an examination and up till now, our internationally highly ranked military men and women have not been able to free the girls or subdue the assailants. What happened to the Nigerian military´s responsibility of upholding our integrity and defending our nation? Do we still have a nation? Why is it that our military officers keep announcing beforehand how and when it plans to attack the Boko Haram, is this the latest military strategy, tell your enemies how you plan to get him so that he can escape or re-enforce better than you before you arrive?

  Honestly, one is forced to smell a rat everywhere and suspect every single person in government in Nigeria. Who are the people sponsoring the Boko Haram? Definitely someone is responsible for their feeding and their several other needs including their arms and ammunitions, who are these persons? Are we truly fighting a group of Islamic fundamentalists or a region with a political agenda? The secrecy and the silence with which the issue is being treated by those who should be more concerned and more worried is inciting every sort of suspicions. How can any group turn themselves into the visible government of any zone in the country and the very prominent indigenes of that region are quiet about it.

  Are these people fighting under the guise of a fundamentalist group not members of the society? Are they ghosts? For how long are we going to continue deceiving ourselves and sacrificing innocent Nigerians for selfish and senseless reasons? Whoever is responsible for drafting the Nigerian soldiers to this mock war, should stop ridiculing our soldiers, we either arm them to the teeth to fight and fight very well, or they be made to stay back in their Barracks while our politicians look for ways of cleaning up their mess.