NIGERIAN MILITARY: LACK OF WATER AND FOOD KILL SOLDIERS

Report show 70 soldiers have fallen due to lack of water and food.

Some soldiers drafted to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast have come out to complain the poor state of livelihood on the field. A video showing some of them already fainted and receiving medical care was obtained by the  eye reporters

Video shows the agonies of Nigerian Soldier fighting Bokoharem  

One of the voices in the video said for over two years, they have been battling short supplies of food and water, a situation which has led to some of them dying and fainting.
Efforts to reach the Army Spokesperson, Col. Sani Usman were futile as at the time of publishing this report

similar story reported by naij.com on the 30th of November 2016 prove that soldiers in the Northeast are been neglected

In the report by Naij.com one Mr Moses, the man who claimed to be the Nigerian soldier, on the behalf of his colleagues serving in the north-east, writes an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. The soldier asks the president to change the troops on the frontline of the battlefield with the Boko Haram insurgents, saying that army generals are not interested in the end of this war.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the editorial policy of NAIJ.com.

Dear sir,

It is with a lot of sadness I am writing this letter to you because we, the soldiers in the north-east, are getting tired here. Some of us have spent three years, others two years and above while some locations have changed two or three commanding officers as their co. I keep asking myself the same question that if it was other missions outside Nigeria where we are paid good money the army would have found all means to change us.

But the case is different here. We are begging because some of our senior officers do not want this fight to finish because of their selfish interest and we keep on losing soldiers and good officers day by day.

Sir, it will be wise for you to change your technique on some of our senior officers in charge of the areas where there is fighting in the state because the more the fight get longer the more money they make.

Sir please I am pleading on behalf of myself and my colleagues that have overstayed in this north-east to be changed.

We are begging before we lose our sense of reasoning. The Nigerian army generals are not ready to finish this fight now. I am ready to die fighting for my country but seeing how things are happening here is never encouraging.

People give the wrong command here because they feel that they are senior officers that must be obeyed and we end up losing soldiers but they will always turn back to put the blame for someone to carry.

I get to understand these days that Nigerian army always lives with lies because most of the story we see on the net are cooked up stories given to the press to tell the whole world.

Mr President, Sir, I am not fighting for anything but for love and peace to restore back in my country. Please, Sir, use your good office to look into our problems.