What Happened To The Nigerian Army? From being one of the crackiest ,most courageous and result oriented troops to the present pitiable state.From an army capable if rubbing shoulders with the best in the world to a tool for election rigging , oil bunkering etc. They were so badass that special punishments were usually reserved for Nigerian soldiers when they were captured wherever they were operating. 1)In Seirra leone , the army landed at Freetown airport at dawn in a number of Hercules C130 aircraft,took control of the airport and started fanning out into strategic positions in the city ;starting from the approaches to the airport.They battled street by street until the drove out the rebels out of Freetown. In Somalia ,a platoon of Nigeria soldiers single handedly held and fought to the last man against a massive column of insurgents while the Europeans troop nearby ran away and left them to their fate. In Liberia , Nigeria troops landed right into the middle of a senseless war with no clear friend or foe and fought block by block, city by city ,swamp by swamp ,jungle by jujngle. Many lost their lives in the process . While the usual corruption was there ,but these men fought and fought hard. What exactly has changed that they are unable to fight a group of terrorists who attack military bases in numbers (which means that conventional military methods can be used to destroy them )? By odua
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:20:04 +0000