BOKO HARAM ARMS SHIPMENT:-NIGERIAN ARMY OFFICIALS ATTACKED THREE TIMES BETWEEN 2012 TILL 2013

                                                                  BOKO HARAM

ARMS SHIPMENT:-NIGERIAN ARMY OFFICIALS ATTACKED THREE TIMES BETWEEN 2012 TILL 2013

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

 

 Movement of arms and ammunition is a big issue around the world as the regular national armed forces is in continual war with militia groups over who takes control of what.

Facts have begun to emerge as at press time about the level of risks and hardship ,Nigerian Armed Forces personnel especially  that of the Nigerian Army had to face in the movement of arms and ammunition to check mate the insurgency in the North eastern Part of Nigeria.

In an exclusive investigation by Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos, Nigeria at one of the military formations it was discovered that a very brilliant Nigerian Soldier of the rank of Major who hails from Kano but had his formative years in Kotangora, Niger State has displayed a very rare gallantry in trying to discharge his professional duties.

He speaks exclusively "You know when you are applying to be a military officer the vocation is voluntary but by the time you are given the job it becomes a compulsory thing for you to discharge your duties accordingly as you have sworn an allegiance to defend the territorial integrity and honor of your nation"

"I have been ambushed at least three times by Boko Haram members but this will not stop me from doing my job very well"

"I have this colleague who normally should do this job but he always had a habit of getting doctors cover note so that he will not travel to Maiduguri on assignment or any other assignment that he believes to be dangerous"

"my bosses do not like him very much because of this character which is a drawback on national security and he has since been relegated in the scheme of things in the office because of his poor attitude to work"

"I am usually at the rare of what can be a very long motorcade of hardware made up of weapons but somehow I have managed to survive ,each time my friends call me up and I tell them that am in Maiduguri,Bornu State on national assignment they are always praying for my safety but if somebody does not do this then who will "

The military strategist from the Nigerian Army Signal and Communication Corp told this reporter anonymously that the Boko Haram Crisis was a difficult phase in the life of the nation but quickly added that he was sure that Nigeria will come out of the terror saga a better nation.

He enjoined Nigerians to see themselves as Nigerians first before they think of there tribal and religious affiliations as it was only this kind of philosophy that can make a nation truly achieve greatness .