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Boko Haram insurgents attacked a Nigerian military position early this morning around 3 AM, and eight of our gallant soldiers tragically lost their lives.
This horrific attack can only happen due to a catastrophic failure of intelligence.
As someone who has extensively traveled and even lived in Northern Nigeria, I can tell you for free that the Nigerian state has absolutely no regard for the lives of our me in uniform. They treat frontline soldiers as disposable pawns on a chessboard of massive corruption.
Naturally, a military outpost is supposed to be the most fortified, impenetrable, and safest coordinate of any town that hosts it.
But the way it is set up in Nigeria is a total death trap and a tragic mockery of modern military architecture.
These military outposts are essentially nothing more than makeshift, vulnerable camps, lazily fenced with deteriorating cement bags filled with sand, patched together with cheap razor wire, and frequently plunged into absolute darkness the moment the sun sets because there is no reliable power supply to even light up the perimeter.
These military outposts in the North lacks helium-filled aerostat balloons equipped with high-definition thermal, infrared, and optical cameras that are considered a priority in advanced countries.
In any serious military operation, these tethered surveillance balloons are flown hundreds of feet above the base to provide constant 360-degree overwatch of the surrounding terrain.
They can pierce through the dead of night and heavy forest canopies. This basic, standard-issue setup would make it physically impossible for these terrorists to gather their forces, maneuver heavy technical vehicles, or set up deadly mortar positions undetected in the dark.
Along with the surveillance balloons floating in the sky, there are supposed to be acoustic and seismic sensors buried strategically across a wide square radius around these bases. These autonomous early-warning systems instantly detect the heavy vibrations and coordinated movements of insurgent convoys, motorcycle swarms, or stealth foot patrols approaching through tactical blind spots or low-visibility terrain, triggering the base alarms long before the first shot is even fired.
These defensive technologies are not science fiction, and they are absolutely not prohibitively expensive. The billions of naira that the Nigerian government is currently wasting to build luxury mansions for compromised judges, to purchase fleets of bulletproof SUVs for bloated lawmakers, and to fund frivolous presidential yacht budgets can easily purchase these exact surveillance systems en masse from defense contractors in China or Turkey.
It is a deliberate, calculated political choice not to properly equip these bases. The political elites in Abuja would rather watch our brave, under-equipped troops be slaughtered needlessly in their sleep by rag-tag militias than divert a single fraction of their looted wealth toward the actual preservation of human life and genuine national security.
Granddaughter shares the before-and-after transformation of her 76-year-old grandmother after leaving Nigeria, and the striking change has left many questioning the quality of life in Nigeria.
"The Fulani that are kidnapping people are not Nigerian Fulani. They are mostly Fulani from Chad, we Nigerian Fulani may eat someone else farm with our cow, but we donโt kidnap."
โโ An abducted Fulani man, narrating his experience after being kidnapped.
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