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VIDEO: Nigerian soldier indicts leadership over military’s inability to defeat terrorists, bandits
A Nigerian soldier has practically put the blame for the inability of the Nigerian military in defeating terrorists and bandits and putting an end to insurgency in the country squarely on the country’s leadership.
The young soldier who made the assertions in a trending video posted on X on Tuesday, said Nigerians should stop blaming the field soldiers as they work based on instructions and obey orders from their superiors.
Speaking in Hausa language, the soldier said tackling the terrorists and bandits would not take them much time if they are given the marching orders, but that unfortunately, their superiors are not giving them the orders to take the fight to the enclaves of the criminals.
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He also accused the military eggheads of benefiting from the war against insurgency, hence their apathy in directing the right hit on the terrorists.
“Stop blaming the Nigerian military, we work with orders. We have the weapons and manpower. If our leaders gave us the directive to face these criminals head-on, we would finish them in a week.
“But the leaders are profiting from these heinous crimes. What is Zamfara bush, for God’s sake, that we cannot secure? If we can go to other countries for peacekeeping, why can’t we do the same in our own country?” the soldier said, among other things.
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