Govt For Terrorists !!! Sacked army commander complaining about poor equipment against Boko Haram

Barely seven months as theatre commander of operation Lafiya Dole, the Nigerian Army on Tuesday announced a replacement for Olusegun Adeniyi, a major-general. 

Known to have commanded a couple of army’s brigades in the fight against Boko Haram, Adeniyi would now leave a less combatant life as he is to resume at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC), Abuja.
Faruk Yahaya, general officer commanding (GOC) of the army’s 1 division in Kaduna, has been named the new commander at the theatre of war.
Hours after his removal was announced, Adeniyi was seen in a video where he told a superior believed to be Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, about how they had been hit by insurgents. 
As the general lamented, he kept reassuring his superior that he and his soldiers remained battle ready. 

“I’m standing here with sector 2 commander. The armed helicopter has just come over our head. The instruction I gave them, anything moving they should engage it because most of my gun trucks are not moving,” Adeniyi was heard saying.   
“Like I said earlier, we are with the leading embrance, 3 battalion are fighting and deployed, nobody is running. 

“But what we have here, I will give you some estimates to guide your good decision, sir. Boko Haram has fired more than a hundred mortal bombs at us, they have fired more than 80 to 100 RPGs (rocket propelled grenades) at us in addition to more than 8 to 10 gun trucks from every side since yesterday. 
“We have not run, and the soldiers are not misbehaving or disobeying orders. We have casualties, I will come and see you in person on what we need to do. But we are not running.”

Pointing at the one the vehicles being fixed by some soldiers, Adeniyi continued:“That’s one of our MRAP’s (mine-resistant ambush protected) tyres that ran flat after bullet touched it. We have used more than 20 MRAP tyres here. That’s another one, sir. We have changed close to 250 Hilux tyres due to the terrain. This is what we are facing.”
He added that they were ready to achieve the mission of the superior. 
It is not clear when the video was recorded, but sources said it was at the time in January when Adeniyi’s convoy was attacked and his driver killed in Jakana, Borno state, where the insurgents struck repeatedly.

Other military sources who spoke with TheCable under anonymity said Adeniyi may have been set up as “he is one general who doesn’t listen to his fellow generals.” 

“Yes, he is good and always leading from the front, but he has a lot of issues with other generals and we suspect they teamed up to set him up, if not he should still be the commander,” one of the sources said. 

The army, however, had said Adeniyi’s redeployment and that of others is a routine exercise intended to reinvigorate the system for greater professional effectiveness and efficiency.

See video link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Nca8ja_JFU0&feature=emb_logo

- THECABLE

Tragedy in Lagos: Dangote truck crushes 6 to death

Despite lockdown, tragedy struck in Lagos on Tuesday as Dangote Cement silo truck crushed six persons to death after Epe Long bridge, Epe area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr Femi Oke-Osanyintolu confirmed that six people died in the tragedy.

According to him, on arrival at the above scene, a Dangote Cement silo truck with unknown registration number was discovered to have fallen on a fully-loaded commercial taxi OPEL car with registration number SMK-312ES.

“Investigations revealed that a total of 7 people were in the crushed car with 6 of them having lost their lives on or shortly after the impact while efforts are ongoing by the response team to extricate the single adult man who is alive but remains trapped beneath the silo truck.

“Recovery operation ongoing. The deceased will be transported to the mortuary for processing,” he said in a statement around 12:16 am.

“We also wish to appeal to members of the public to comply with the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines laid down by the Governor, Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwoolu, to avoid endangering themselves as well as the rescue workers who are already operating under extremely challenging conditions,” he said

- PM NEWS

Lawyer: Soldiers brutalising Nigerians under the guise of enforcing restriction

Tope Akinyode, a human rights lawyer, says the military has no right to enforce the movement restrictions imposed by the federal government. 

In a memo, Lamidi Adeosun, chief of policy and plans of the Nigerian Army, had said Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, had approved the activation of “Op-Second-Eleven”, a special operation to see to the enforcement of the restriction amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Reacting in a statement on Tuesday, Akinyode, who is the national president of the Revolutionary Lawyers’ Forum, said the move has no legal backing.

According to him, not even President Muhammadu Buhari has the right to “unleash them on peaceful citizens except in exceptional circumstances which does not fall in this instance”
He claimed that Nigerians have been brutalised by soldiers “in the name of enforcing government orders”.

“Our attention is drawn to a circular by the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai commanding Soldiers to embark on an action which he tagged ‘Op-Second Eleven’ and which is organized for the ‘enforcement of government movement restriction order’ over coronavirus,” the statement read.
“Our sincere wish had been that the military would follow the path of reasoning to jettison such a misguided ambition, which clearly has no legal standing within the Nigerian jurisprudence. However, we are disturbed by the updates we are receiving about the brutality, physical assault and attack unleashed on citizens by soldiers in the name of enforcing government orders.

“We assert that even the President of Nigeria has no power whatsoever to call out the armed forces and unleash them on peaceful citizens except in exceptional circumstances which does not fall in this instance.

“It remains trite law that armed forces or the military have no right to dabble into civil activities except perhaps, to exercise their right of franchise during elections and vote in their barracks.

“Against the foregoing, we hereby call on any Nigerian who has been or is being unlawfully harassed by the military in the process of enforcing government directive to immediately reach out to us via our email: revolutionarylawyersforum@gmail.com and we will bring the full weight of the law against such erring military officer.”

- THECABLE

U.S. virus expert Fauci predicts another coronavirus in September

America’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci has predicted there will be another coronavirus outbreak from fall, that is 22 September to 21 December.

He said the U.S. will be better prepared to combat the virus.

“In fact, I would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the degree of transmissibility,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

He made the prediction while responding to a question about a possible reemergence of the virus in the fall during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden.

Fauci added, however, that if another outbreak were to occur, things “are going to be very, very different.”

“Our ability to go out and be able to test, identify, isolate, and contact trace, will be orders of magnitude better than what it was just a couple months ago,” Fauci said.

Fauci said by fall treatments for the coronavirus would hopefully be ready for use. He said by then it’s important the government has a vaccine “that’s on track, and multiple other candidates.”

The U.S. now leads the rest of the world in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases.

More than 187,000 cases have been confirmed across the country with 3,867 deaths.

Globally, more than 850,000 cases have been confirmed with more than 42,000 fatalities.

- PM NEWS

Shock in Edo community as 82-year village head allegedly defiles teenager

There was tension in Abudu community, the headquarters of Orhionmwon local government area on Monday following accusations that the Odionwere (village head), Pa, Sunday Izekor, sexually assaulted a Junior Secondary School (JSS) class two student, simply identified as Gift.

Pa Izekor, 82, was said to have sexually abused the teenage girl, 13, at different times before it became public knowledge.

Gift was said to have lost her parents some years ago and is currently being accommodated by her uncle.

Outraged indigenes mainly youths reportedly took turns to rain curses on the Odionwere, even as many descended on him over the alleged abominable act.

It took the intervention of operatives of Abudu Police division to halt the situation from degenerating into chaos.

The police were said to have rescued the community leader from the angry mob and took him into custody.

Trouble reportedly started for the village head after a friend of the teenager who was in the know of the defilement mocked the 13-year-old over the community leader’s sexual assault on her.

One of the youths, who is a state government appointee told DAILY POST that the development drew the attention of Gift’s uncle and neighbours who questioned the rationale behind her friend’s “prank”.

Upon further inquiry, gift opened up that the traditional ruler has been having carnal knowledge of her since early 2019.

When contacted, the State police spokesman, Chidi Nwabuzor, on a telephone interview said he was yet to be briefed on the development.

- DAILY POST