Immediate past Chief of Defence staff, Alex Badeh has continued lamenting he lack of equipment in the Nigerian army.
In an interview with Channels TV, Alex Badeh said the last time the Nigerian army received new equipment was in 2006 and that the Nigerian military flies the oldest fighter jets in the whole world.
His words below...
"We found out that we had fifth columnist in the military that were leaking information to terrorist and then we also had challenges of serviceable equipment. If I go down memory lane, I think the last time any piece of equipment was bought for the Nigerian army was in 2006 and how many were they? They were few.
In fact they were few and if we go way back to 1993, from then on, soldiers were not allowed to even go to range to go and practice. So a soldier that is not practicing how to use his gun, what kind of military are you going to have? So those were the challenges we had so when we were faced with Boko Haram, it became a very big challenge.
We have been trying to increase the military by ourselves.
You don't give me budget and say go and build barracks. Barracks is capital intensive. So even if we recruit so many people in the military now, we don't have where to house them. So it is a challenge too that government must face. Government must build barracks for us so that we can recruit more.
For a population of over 170 million, what we have in Nigeria can not be adequate enough to protect us So those were the challenges we had. Inadequate equipment, obsolete equipment. In fact we are the ones that are flying the oldest fighter aeroplanes in the whole world. Alpha jets we bought them in 1981. That is the backbone of our operations in the Northeast" he said.
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Video credits: Channels TV
WOW! This indeed is news! Mr Badeh, where were you in the last regime; why didn't you cry out then? You want to tell us that since the inauguration of the late Yar'adua no weapon has been bought for the Nigerian Army. PDP, una see una life? A bunch of shameless CRIMINALS! PMB will hunt you down...GEJ should be the first in row. Oh! What about the millions confiscated in South Africa (to buy weapons for the military)? There is God oh! PDP, una see una life?
ReplyDeleteU talk like a mad man u want them to kill him before. U will understand him did u think that military men talk anyhow my friend don't talk like a fool
ReplyDeleteAll of them r liars, has Badeh 4gotten so soon dat when d general Elections were shifted 4 2wks he told us dat Nigerian army had gotten new equipment to combat d terrorists or were d equipments stolen or they collected d money n shared among themselves. Wat kind of leaders do we hav, hav they also 4gotten d South America issue, has Badeh too 4gotten GEJ to Nigerians they acquired new n modern weapons frm China n Russia since America refused to sale us weapons
ReplyDeleteBros, don't forget that in the military, you are not allowed to say what the commander in chief has not agreed for you to say.
DeleteTherfore we should ignore that speach in total
DeleteAs a matter of fact am seeing this long serving general in NIGERIAN ARMY as an inexperience man.
ReplyDeleteAlso his confessions is in line with blames that he didn't want to leave office.He's very old on the job but he's not all that matured to the trend of military.When you were starved of weapon.why didn't you open up to the nation? Please keep your excuses to your self not Nigerian people.In view of this you need to be audit on arms and security vote for your office since 2009 till date.Am Clemo
My take is simple: if Mr Badeh was a true patriot, he would have resigned, assuming that what he is now saying is true. And perhaps he should also explain what happened to the cash freighted away in Ayo Oritsejafor's private jet. They haven't seen thei nemesis yet; just wait till PMB starts digging deep.
ReplyDeleteIf we can still recall,GEJ actually mention this in one of his PDP campaigned talks, that GMB should tell Nigerians, if the former Heads of states including himself Buhari, bought any weapons for Nigerian army. So with what Mr. Badeh is saying now, one begins to wonder, and then ask, is this the same military, that defence tops the list on our yearly budgets .what do they use the huge amount of money voted every year in our budgets for?.Their soldiers are not well paid, and they can't still by weapons. No wonder OBJ and the military refused to go for war with Cameroon over the OIL RICH BAKKASSI.
ReplyDeleteDid you read the story well? The man said the last time weapons were bought for the military was 2006. You should be asking those who have ruled the country since 2006. GMB was certainly not one of them. I take it that Badeh implies that weapons were bought during OBJ's 1999-2007 regime. OBJ's refusal to go to war with Cameroon over Bakassi had nothing to do with our military capability. He simply saw that Nigeria had no case at all because a previous Head of State had signed away Bakassi. Only a jingo goes to war over an issue he knows fully well he has no case.
DeleteBuhari started emasculating the Nigeria military in 1984 when he remove a democratically elected government in a coup. They did that to prevent other military guys from staging a coup against them. Subsequently, Babangida and Abacha carried the act to the new height in their paranoia. Abdulsalam did not have much time as he was busy with the transition to civil rule. When Obasanjo came in 1999 as a civilian president, his American consultants told him to further incapacitate the military in order for the young democracy to 'survive'. Some of the first things he did was to retire experienced hands claiming they were political. This was followed with disorganization of commands and of course continuation of stifling the military of necessary weapons. With the benefit of hindsight, Obasanjo's pandering to the Americans was driven more by selfishness than sustainability of democracy, otherwise, he would have done it with more tact, knowing fully well that the Americans' interest was not borne our of altruism but to reduce Nigeria's military capabilities and reduce the capacity to respond to external aggression. Most of the international operations involving our military were largely non-combat peace keeping operations involving small arms, therefore, soldiers and officers did not actually go there to fight. Be that as it may, Boko Haram operations largely involve elements inside the Nigeria military who are religiously and politically sympathetic to the murderous sect. They disclose tactical operations and give officers and men away. This was responsible for the almost invincible status of the sect. All of these facts are on the street.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all let me use this opportunity to tell Mr President GMB that, after listening to this man' the former Chief of Defence Staff and failed to release those Soldiers that was sentence to death and those that has been Dismissed because they refused to fight due to lack of Equipment in which the former CDS came out then and tell the whole would that those Soldier we're lying, now the truth is here now, furthermore if Mr President refused or ignore or disided not to prob them' I mean the Military God we surly judge Mr President, and we Nigerian we not in anyway have trust in him any longer because, the tap rut of CORRUPTION in this Country is NIGERIAN ARMY no doubt, I pray that God Almighty we gave Mr president and his Cabinet the power, Wisdom, Knowledge to fight the Corruption to the bearest minimum, God bless Nigerian.
ReplyDeleteFrom 1993 when attempt was made to oust IBB, deliberate efforts have been made by successive regimes to disarm the military and upgrade the presidential security as a way of forestalling coup plots.
ReplyDeleteThe eagerness to take power using the gun is what has placed us where we are.
This is not a party thing. It started all the way back to military regime. The weapons the army has been relying on were bought by Shagari and this stock was further depleted and downgraded by the Liberian war peace enforcement initiative
Its all Satanic. What are they doing with all the yearly budgeted funds? Let CAN pres and the man of God Oritsejafor come out to tell us about the South African trip on weaponry! I tell you we shall continue to suffer until all these madmen so called big men are killed we may not know peace as lies upon lies were told everyday...with lots of attrocities on young girls..... soldiers were even dancing davido at the war front..... May God Punish them all. Badeh and others should be probed but if they failed to be probed God Almighty will probe them to death to the 4th generations except they come out to restitute. Amen. DO U KNOW HOW MANY LIVES THAT WERE LOST EVEN SOME SOLDIERS WERE MUTINISED.
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