To say the least, the curious
frequency with which some commanders and their troops run away from the
battlefield and abandon their weapons to the Boko Haram terrorists has become a
national embarrassment. More so when it is now becoming clearer that these
soldiers flee not because they were poorly equipped as we were made to believe
in the past.
Politics aside, the military high
command particularly the Chief of Defense Staff and the Chief of Army Staff, if
they are already not, should be made uncomfortable by this embarrassing
development except there is something they know that the ordinary citizens
don’t.
If hunters and members of the civilian JTF from these areas-
Mubi and parts of Borno, could gallantly engage and, outright, defeat Boko
Haram fighters without the sophisticated equipment and training our soldiers
had, then obviously there is something wrong and somebody should be held
responsible for this national embarrassment of our soldiers fleeing everyday
from tag-ragged terrorists…