Nigerian Army Boko Haram Cover Up and media INTIMIDATION

Nigerian Army Boko Haram Cover Up and INTIMIDATION of the media

• Leaked picture of slaughtered soldiers 
• Army Begins Crackdown 
• Boko Haram Acquires Flamethrowers

Ostensibly irked by the leaking of the picture showing bodies of killed Nigerian Soldiers ambushed by the world's most deadliest terrorist group Boko Haram at Gudunbali, Borno State, on Wednesday, 18 November, the Nigerian Army has arrested two officers for acts suspected to be meant to sabotage the military’s fight against terrorism.




A statement by Army spokesman Col. Sani Usman yesterday did not give the names of the officers.

The statement titled: Alert On Impending Smear Campaign By Some Disgruntled Elements, said preliminary indications established that the Nigerian Army and Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Buratai as prime targets of the smear campaign.

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The statement said: “The Nigerian Army has received report of some elements both within the Nigerian Army and outside, especially through the use of the social media circle to ridicule the Nigerian Army and the person of the Chief of Army Staff for reasons best known to them.


“They intend to execute this plan as from next month, December 2015, using all means possible; lies, fabricating baseless stories, falsehood, publishing and broadcasting them through some designated print and electronic media, most especially the Social Media.


“The Nigerian Army has identified some of the officers involved and their collaborators; the officers are being investigated to unravel their motive and motivation."

However, a forensic analysis of the picture in question clearly ruled out the theory that the dead soldiers shown in the picture were those of 46 Nigerian soldiers returning from six months United Nations peace-keeping operations in the Darfur region of Sudan who died due to ghastly road accident in Potiskum, Borno State, Nigeria, on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, barely 24 hours after their return.

The soldiers, met their untimely death when the truck conveying them to their units in Monguno, Borno State, ran into a petrol tanker and exploded.

First, the 46 soldiers were burnt beyond recognition which is not the case in the picture.

Whereas, the uniform of the soldiers in the picture were hardly touch by fire which would not be the case if they were douse in petrol from the burst tanker.


SEEN analyst feared that the Boko Haram terrorists may have acquired the Flamethrowers weapon as the condition of the dead Nigerian Soldiers in the picture are consistent with the havoc wrecked by the dreaded weapon.

Flamethrowers are gruesome weapons of war and so controversial that the U.S. military stopped using them after Vietnam.

But as crazy as it may sound, they are available for sale to the public in most European countries.

- Ikedieze Omereisinkwo