'Rotting bodies Of Nigerian Soldiers In Gubio

Bodies of Nigerian soldiers killed on April 18 in a Boko Haram ambuscade in Gubio, Borno state, are yet to be retrieved, a soldier on the war front has told TheCable. The soldier verbally expressed Gubio,
a local regime, is the “nemesis” of Nigerian troops as the insurgents are still plenarily in control, despite the successes recorded since President Muhammadu Buhari came to puissance. He verbally expressed only 15 bodies of the slain soldiers were recuperated, with the genuine figures of the casualties yet to be made public. But a spokesman for the army has described the soldier’s claims as “false”. The soldier verbalized it was infeasible for the Nigerian military to perforate Gubio because of the insurgents’ “superior fire power”, albeit he verbalized successes have been recorded in other local regime areas of the state. “In one battalion, out of 500 plus, they are no longer up to 150. A moiety of them did not come back alive. Boko Haram killed some but our soldiers withal killed some insurgents. Of the 12 soldiers that recently returned from Guinea Bissau, 10 have died,” he verbally expressed. “Our men are in Gubio local regime area, though the place we wanted to capture is Damasak, which has a boundary with Niger Republic. That (Gubio) is the only local regime area under Boko Haram.

They control the whole area.” Reports had suggested that Nigerian soldiers suffered “heavy losses” in the ambuscade, but the army issued a verbalization later in the day saying the insurgents were eventually overpowered. The soldier verbally expressed: “Boko Haram is well-armed… all of them. Anti-aircraft gun is what they utilize to kill people. Their conveyances are the colour of the Nigerian army just as their uniforms. Boko Haram uses anti-aircraft guns, but we don’t retain those. And they have more than 20 rocket-propelled grenades; we have only two. “When we were endeavoring to enter Gubio on Monday (April 18), they ambuscaded us. It is not pellucid to us how they got acquainted with our mission. “On that day soldiers verbalized that they did not optate to go into that local regime area because they did not have arms. But their ascendant figures verbally expressed that they must go there without being well-armed. Two battalions (113 and 158) of the fifth brigade went there. “Uncountable soldiers lost their lives. The corpses are still there now. We only recuperated 15 bodies, but many of the soldiers are in the bush dead, and their bodies are decomposing.

And ascendant entities are going to block their accounts if their bodies are not recuperated. Their families will not be able to access their salaries or benefits. There must be a dead body afore you can make claims. “There is no reinforcement, and the commanders are asking the soldiers to go back there. Some soldiers have absquatulate; there are less than 100 in a particular battalion now. The ammunition has been depleted, and no reinforcement. “The two battalions are scattered and there is no inspiritment.” However, the army has described the report has mendacious. Verbalizing with TheCable, Sani Usman, army spokesman, called for a “proper questioning” of soldiers who leak information to journalists. He explicated that some of the soldiers who expeditiously run to give mendacious information to the press were the ones absquatulating from battle.