I am a Navy girl ( went to NNSS Ojo and wished to be in The Navy too) so sometimes i tend to think military like and when there is any story that concerns the military i tend to wanna know more. When i heard about this i was extremely glad. It is about time someone stands up to the nonsense that is going on in the military. You don't play with people's lives even if they had sworn to protect our lives and properties and give up their own. As they are already willing agreed to sacrifice their lives that others may live free, let them sacrifice with dignity and pride not like chicken or cows going to a slaughter house.
Here is the story making waves in the military circle:
Boko Haram: Spouses of Nigerian Troops Block Husbands’ Deployment to Gwosa
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Dozens
of women and children on Saturday forcefully stopped military trucks
from ferrying their husbands and fathers to the Boko Haram-seized Gwosa
by locking the exit gates of a barracks in Borno State, demanding
quality fighting equipment for the soldiers.
Scores of soldiers have been killed by Boko Haram in Borno State in the
last few months, and many blame the inferior weapons Nigerian troops are
equipped with to fight brutal insurgents. Reports say nearly 60
soldiers were killed last Wednesday in Gwosa, taken over by Boko Haram
after hundreds of heavily-armed militants swooped on the border town.
After locking the gates Saturday, the women and children placed themselves as wedges before the trucks that were to drive out of Giwa Barracks of the 21 armoured brigade Maiduguri, witnesses said.
“We don’t want to be turned another set of widows, give our husbands
modern and better arms, weapons and vehicles or they go nowhere!” one
woman was quoted by a source as saying.
The reaction came after nearly 60 soldiers killed in Gwoza and Damboa-
both in Borno State- were given a mass burial at the Maimalari Barracks
Maiduguri. The military authority at the 7-Division of the Nigeria Army
received a mandate to send more troops to rescue Gwoza. Efforts to stop
the women from protesting failed as they stood their grounds all day,
demanding that the General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the brigade,
address them.
After defying all entreaties, the women turned on the barracks’ Regiment
Sergeant Major and the Garrison Commander, and almost lynched them for
trying to prevent the stand out, witnesses at the barracks told PREMIUM TIMES.
The women and children also blockaded the roads leading to the barracks
with stones and sticks, while some sat in front of the barracks’ gate.
Some soldiers at the barracks said they were in support of the action. One soldier told journalists:
“We are ever ready to tackle Boko Haram terrorists but our superior
officers are the ones killing us by not giving us the right arms to
execute the war. How could I go and face Boko Haram with AK47 that is
charged with only three cartridges when the enemy is brandishing modern
GPMG, AA, RPG and so on.
Most of our soldiers die every day like fowls because of faulty
deployment and yet when you complain they only tell you to obey the last
order”.
Another soldier said:
“We are being pushed to death because we usually run out of ammunition
or our weapons would fail us during an operation, while the Boko Haram
who came fully kitted with better arms and extra supplies would continue
to pick on us like insects."
Another soldier said:
“We are ready to finish Boko Haram in one week because we have the
courage to do that if we are given the right arms and ammunition”.
With the sit in lasting al through Saturday, the hope of Gwoza people
trapped up in the mountains diminished amid reports or some dying of
hunger and thirst as at Saturday evening. - See more at:
http://www.lailasblog.com/2014/08/boko-haram-spouses-of-nigerian-troops.html#sthash.FBprQNCi.dpuf | | |
Dozens
of women and children on Saturday forcefully stopped military trucks
from ferrying their husbands and fathers to the Boko Haram-seized Gwosa
by locking the exit gates of a barracks in Borno State, demanding
quality fighting equipment for the soldiers.
Scores of soldiers have been killed by Boko Haram in Borno State in the
last few months, and many blame the inferior weapons Nigerian troops are
equipped with to fight brutal insurgents. Reports say nearly 60
soldiers were killed last Wednesday in Gwosa, taken over by Boko Haram
after hundreds of heavily-armed militants swooped on the border town.
After locking the gates Saturday, the women and children placed themselves as wedges before the
trucks that were to drive out of Giwa Barracks of the 21 armoured brigade Maiduguri, witnesses said.
“We don’t want to be turned another set of widows, give our husbands
modern and better arms, weapons and vehicles or they go nowhere!” one
woman was quoted by a source as saying.
The reaction came after nearly 60 soldiers killed in Gwoza and Damboa-
both in Borno State- were given a mass burial at the Maimalari Barracks
Maiduguri. The military authority at the 7-Division of the Nigeria Army
received a mandate to send more troops to rescue Gwoza. Efforts to stop
the women from protesting failed as they stood their grounds all day,
demanding that the General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the brigade,
address them.
After defying all entreaties, the women turned on the barracks’ Regiment
Sergeant Major and the Garrison Commander, and almost lynched them for
trying to prevent the stand out, witnesses at the barracks told
PREMIUM TIMES.
The women and children also blockaded the roads leading to the barracks
with stones and sticks, while some sat in front of the barracks’ gate.
Some soldiers at the barracks said they were in support of the action. One soldier told journalists:
“We are ever ready to tackle Boko Haram terrorists but our superior
officers are the ones killing us by not giving us the right arms to
execute the war. How could I go and face Boko Haram with AK47 that is
charged with only three cartridges when the enemy is brandishing modern
GPMG, AA, RPG and so on.
Most of our soldiers die every day like fowls because of faulty
deployment and yet when you complain they only tell you to obey the last
order”.
Another soldier said:
“We are being pushed to death because we usually run out of ammunition
or our weapons would fail us during an operation, while the Boko Haram
who came fully kitted with better arms and extra supplies would continue
to pick on us like insects."
Another soldier said:
“We are ready to finish Boko Haram in one week because we have the
courage to do that if we are given the right arms and ammunition”.
With the sit in lasting al through Saturday, the hope of Gwoza people
trapped up in the mountains diminished amid reports or some dying of
hunger and thirst as at Saturday evening. - See more at:
http://www.lailasblog.com/2014/08/boko-haram-spouses-of-nigerian-troops.html#sthash.FBprQNCi.dpuf
