Chief Of Army Staff Please Save Our Husbands - Blog Vistor Cries Out

The sender of this mail is in Tears and wants something done fast!

''Hello Stella,There was an attack on Saturday in Adamawa state and the casualty is staggering. My God, am in tears right now becos an officer i know so well is confirmed shot and missing. That's becos no reinforcement was sent to rescue injured soldiers.

 Am just praying that he's still alive and hasn't bled to death bcos I'll be devastated. Thank God that my neighbour who was missing has been found alive, his wife is pregnant. A lieutenant has been confirmed dead, casualty for soldiers is unknown.

 Its by Gods mercy my husband wasn't part of that team bcos he's been deployed there also. Stella please, pealse and please. Who knows if the COAS will do something to save our husbands. I don't want to be a widow Stella. 

Please, soldiers are dying like chickens daily and there bodies are not even been retrieved.  OMG crying......

The Nigerian army is simply being callous and hypocritical in this fight against boko haram. Soldiers and officers are being killed in their numbers daily with nothing being done about it.

It is true that the Nigerian army have NO arms and ammunition to prosecute this war. Can you imagine soldiers being burnt live in armoured personnel carriers(APCs)?  These APCs are dead and rusty. They usually contract old retired soldiers who fought in the Nigerian civil wars and Onitsha and Aba boys to help reconstruct parts of this APCs because these parts cant be gotten from manufacturers as they have been phased out years ago. 

These soldiers are forced to drive this dead armours and get stuck in the heat of battle. The BH then come and burn them alive inside these tanks. Other times they kill the soldiers and take the tanks. The tanks BH have all belong to the Nigerian army.

Right now soldiers have had it to their necks. We know they swore to pay the ultimate price but that doesn't mean they be treated as chickens. How do you want these men to be motivated when they see their colleagues die and cant Even be buried properly with the honour they deserve. The bodies of soldiers are left to rot in the bush in BH strongholds, and the ones they get their bodies are given mass burials with no honour or respect. These soldiers are seeing this daily and you expect them to fight wit vigour and selflessly?

Since the inception of this war the Nigerian army have been promising to procure ammunition's and up until now there is nada on ground. Its no secret that BH have more sophisticated weapons than the almighty Nigerian army.

Am sending this because of the news that some soldiers refused to engage in offensive without armour and the quick response of the army in the negative. Its appalling that they're quick to respond wit no action.

The army have not bought a single weapon in decades. The few that survived Biafran war were grounded during our big brother role in Liberia. Even the weapons produced by DICON is the worst. Soldiers prefer the old weapons to the supposed 'new' ones. DICON cannot produce a simple functional AK47 weapon. 

One then wonders whats been happening to the billions made available since the onset of this war, not to talk of the yearly allocation to the army. The army has been corrupted and its all about amassing wealth by the big boys.

Soldiers who died in the line of duty are still been owed their dues. Families have been left without a breadwinner and some big shot in an AC office in Abuja is still sitting on their entitlement for years.

Soldiers with gunshot wounds are left to treat themselves, with most of them going to seek for treatments traditionally in their villages.

Isn't it surprising that there's no army trauma hospital in the north east or Nigeria as a whole? Even 44 army reference hospital in Kaduna doesn't have a trauma surgeon or a standard trauma unit.

Am not even talking of the fact that soldiers are left to provide basic amenities like toiletries, mosquito nets and the likes for themselves while they are holed up in the bush. No raincoats or covers during this raining season with soldiers having to eat just bread all day as there's nothing else available in these bushes they are.

So Nigerians let's be more sympathetic to these young men out there and turn our anger to those with the fat ranks in Abuja who prefer to see young lives cut short. All they are interested in is profiting from this war.

Let me state categorically that president Jonathan Will never go anywhere near the north east because he and the generals know that the army cannot guarantee his safety. Except of course they want to build a wall round the president with bare-chested men as they don't have functional bulletproof vests. 

The Kevlar in what you see them wearing cant withstand a common nail much less bullets. I rest my case here but please tell the chief of army staff that we are still waiting for the ammunition's he went to buy months back. Our fathers, brothers, sons and husbands are dying and they deserve better.Thank you''

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