Boko Haram can not really thrive
without inside help, hence the military need to be more vigilant. I hear they
have arrested several soldiers, who were discovered to have leaked vital
security information on the troops’ strategies and tactics to Boko Haram that
led to a series of ambush and killing of over 30 Nigerian soldiers by the
rag-tag terrorists in recent times.
Sources say ,most of the arrested
soldiers serve as orderlies or ADCs to Commanders of Troops on the field. Can
you imagine that?
“The situation became so bad that there was mutual suspicion
among fellow commanders, the Brigade headquarters and even the Division
headquarters. But at last, the moles were found out to be some of the orderlies
and aides of Commanders. What they do is that after operational briefings and
troops take off, these moles immediately pass on the information through
calls.”
According to Vanguard, the alleged moles among the soldiers leaked the information on the deployment of soldiers from Maimalari Barracks in April this year to the terrorists which led to an ambush and killing of so many soldiers of the 101 Battalion that consequently led to soldiers’ mutiny and the shooting at the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Major General Ahmed Mohammed. His armoured official car saved his life.
It further gathered that the
activities of these moles may have been responsible for the recent shooting of
the Nigerian Airforce Alpha Jet on September 12 which took off from Yola
airport and was reported missing until Boko Haram terrorists said they shot it
down and killed one of its pilot, which was confirmed by the Facebook account
of friends of the military.
Speaking under condition of
anonymity, a reliable source said Commanders on the field had for long wondered
how information on strategies for deployment, type of weaponry and fall back
tactics easily filtered out to the terrorists to the extent that soldiers’
movement, timing of deployment, and routes to take, became known to Boko Haram
insurgents.
Asked why it was difficult to discover
the traitors before now, the source said, “Who will suspect that an orderly or
the ADC of a Commander will be the one giving out information. He does
everything for the Commander and he is with him all the time. He is the last
person that would be suspected. But thank God, they have been exposed; the
truth is now known”.
Already, the source noted that a
Board of Inquiry (BOI) has been set up to carry out further investigations into
the activities of the traitors and to try to find out if there were fellow
fifth columnists still existing among the troops, after which a General Court
Martial will be constituted to try the soldiers for Criminal Conspiracy among
others.
Also, Vanguard was told at the weekend that six
officers taking part in the offensive to flush out the terrorists from the
Adamawa axis recently shot themselves in parts of their bodies that were not
life threatening with a view to escape being drafted to the battle field to
confront Boko Haram terrorists.
After allegedly shooting themselves
in the arm, hip, foot and making sure that the bullets did not affect any bones
in these parts of their bodies, the officers ran to a military hospital and
claimed that they were shot by terrorists.
Medical experts attached to the
hospital in Vintim, after carrying out several checks and x-rays on the gunshot
wounds, discovered that the officers had ‘clean gunshot wounds’ which meant the
injuries were 99% self inflicted.
Vanguard gathered that the Army High
Command ordered that further medical tests be carried out to be doubly sure and
that the x-rays were sent to Abuja where experts did further analysis and came
out with the same results of ‘Clean Gunshot Wounds’ .
But why are some of our soldiers
afraid of Boko Haram so much?
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