This certainly explains why the jihad in Nigeria has gone on for so many years, amid plenty of promises from the government but no effective action to stop it.
“‘We Consider Boko Haram Terrorists As ‘Government Boys’ As Our Superiors Said Our Duty Is To Catch, Not Harm Them’ – Nigerian Soldier In North-East,” Sahara Reporters, July 22, 2022:
One of the Nigerian soldiers fighting in the ongoing counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast has expressed sadness over the recent attack on Kuje prison, during which hundreds of inmates including Boko Haram terrorists escaped….
He said in an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters, “Now there’s confusion in Maiduguri due to the recent jail break at Kuje prison. It will take the live of 6 – 8 soldiers to capture a single Boko-Haram alive face to face.
“And before they take such Boko Haram member to Abuja, he must be a high-profile terrorist. If not, the Boko Haram would be kept in Maiduguri Barracks guard room. But look at what happened, just overnight these people launched an attack, spent over 2 – 3hrs and videoed everything without any military response and they went away free.
“You will catch a Boko Haram in Maiduguri, you will get an order ‘don’t harm him’, and within 24 hours, the person will disappear. And any soldier that tortures them, they will put you into the guardroom and give him IHL, imprisonment with hard labour. They will tell you it is not your duty, your duty is to capture them and you do not have power to do anything to them.
“The sad news now is that, upon the loss of soldiers and equipment, thinking government will do everything to bring these terrorists to book and do the needful. The news we heard is that government has set them free and not only that, they are giving them skill acquisition so that they will be able to fit in into the society. They are saying they have repented.
“Boko Haram who has been terrorising the town, making people homeless, making people lose lives and property. And the government is saying they are being repented. What of the soldiers that ran out of arms that you dismissed? He is now pleading to come back, you said no that they cannot come back again.
“The news of Kuje prison is not a good one, people are not happy about it at all. The soldiers now prefer to capture and kill them, then wait for the consequences.
“We now consider them as ‘Government Boys’, the Boko Haram who only understand minor English will tell you, ‘If you want to kill me, you kill me. If not, when I go, they will leave me’, which is the truth.”…
somehistory says
I hope this honest soldier stays safe. If the mozlum government finds out he talked, it may be the end of him.
the killing will go on until Someone puts it to a permanent end. I pray that He does so soon. Very soon.
Fitna says
It seems the govt it corrupt or run by Muslims and radical Leftists. They soldiers would be better off staging a coup and eliminate the evil regime in charge.
Obviously all Islamic terrorists should be wiped out, take no prisoners, only then will the jihad against innocents will end. Muslims are the enemy plain and simple, either you get them or they get you, this is a war.
In the West they’re more cunning because we vastly outnumber them, which is why they mostly do ‘lone wolf’ attacks…but the war is the same all over the world. People need to wake up and realize Islam is our enemy and act accordingly.
Fitna says
*govt is…
*The soldiers
SemiDave says
Obviously the government is playing both sides.
Likely the government exists as is so long as they serve the greater muzlum brotherhood agenda.
Meanwhile in Ukraine…
gravenimage says
Nigerian soldier: “We consider them ‘Government Boys,’ you catch a Boko Haram, you get an order ‘don’t harm him’”
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Well, I’d long suspected this–this confirms it. Buhari isn’t just incompetent or even corrupt–he *supports* Jihad terror.
Roland says
There is jihad from the top and jihad from below in Nigeria. Boko Haram is financed from the Middle East (just google it) and the government is no doubt pressured by Middle Eastern money in different ways. General Buhari is probably sympathetic to jihad.