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“We Can’t Keep Wasting Our Lives” – Soldiers Abandon Fight Against Boko Haram [Video]

A video footage is trending online showing some Nigerian soldiers complaining about their weapons and abandoning the fight against Boko Haram terrorists in Borno state.

The gallant soldiers said when Nigeria Army is ready to provide them with weapons, they will come back and fight, but for now, they are not ready to fight Boko Haram and keep wasting their lives.

One of the soldiers confirmed that many of his colleagues have been killed. They said Boko Haram insurgents are equipped with better weapons.

There has been intense fighting between the Boko Haram and Nigerian troops in Baga in the past few days. On Friday, the Nigerian air force announced how it deployed several aircraft to bomb gatherings of the insurgents who had attacked a military base in Baga.

Watch the video below:

The army, in a statement by Onyeka Nwachukwu, a colonel, accused some “unscrupulous individuals” of “trying to create panic and unnecessary humanitarian problems for undisclosed reasons.”

Read the press statement below.

The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to an old video clip circulating on the social media in which a supposedly soldier clad with an AK-47 rifle alleging lack of arms and ammunition, among other soldiers in a remote location walking. This is not true, as the video was recorded in 2014 and therefore cannot be a true reflection of the present reality. The public are please requested to discountenance the video clip.

You are please requested to disseminate this information to the public through your medium.

Tobias Sylvester

Tobias Sylvester is the news editor for Kanyi Daily News and is based in Lagos. Contact Tobias at editor@kanyidaily.com. Got a confidential tip? Submit it here