Army Breaks Silence On Ambush Of Soldiers, Keeps Mum On Casualty

The Nigerian armed force has at long last responded to the Boko Haram assaults on Nigerian troopers, the latest in Metele, Borno state, upper east Nigeria. 

Compact News had cited an AFP report, saying the Boko Haram chip bunch executed no less than 44 fighters in assaults on three army installations in Borno State, northern Nigeria at the end of the week. 


The report expressed that out of the 44 troopers, no less than 43 were killed on Sunday in Metele, a remote town close to the Nigerian fringe with Niger, as per a military officer, who talked on state of obscurity. 

Giving a record of the occurrence, a military officer expressed, "Our troops were totally steered and the psychological oppressors caught the base after overwhelming battling," including that the base administrator and three officers were among the dead. 

Responding to the improvement, the Senate on Thursday requested its panels on Army and Defense to research the killings and in addition welfare and prosperity of Nigerian troops battling the rebellion. 

The Senate likewise set out to visit officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces at the war zone, especially in the Northeast. 

This online news medium reports that the assault on the 157 team regiment positioned in Metele left scores of warriors dead while some are as yet absent. 

While a few evaluations put the loss figure at more than 100, the armed force while remarking on Friday, neglected to reveal the loss of life. 

The armed force's announcement perused: "The consideration of the NA has been attracted to a few web based life, print, electronic and online distributions about the ongoing assault on 157 Task Force Battalion at Metele. While the facts confirm that there was an assault on the area on 18 November 2018, it has be that as it may, turned out to be important to redress a few deception being circled concerning this shocking occasion. 

"It is essential for people in general to take note of that the NA has set down systems for detailing episodes that include its work force who fall setback in real life. Keeping in mind the groups of our courageous troops, the NOKs are first told before any type of open data in order to abstain from worsening the sadness relatives would bear, were they to find such from informal sources. 

"Moreover, it does the trick to see that few internet based life, print and online distributions have been wielding false loss figures and in addition circling different recordings of old and wrong BHT promulgation recordings and implying same to be the assault on 157 Task Force Battalion. While it is reasonable how such falsehood can spread in this time of web based life furor, the deceptive flow of a portion of these recordings just add to additionally engender the promulgation goal of the psychological militants; to deceive the people and depict themselves as what they are most certainly not. Up until this point, the circumstance is that the area is under control as strengthening units have possessed the capacity to repulse the fear based oppressors and balance out the circumstance. 

"The NA earnestly wishes to thank the different arms of government, MDAs and sister security organizations that have remained with her in these attempting times; by sympathizing with the groups of the fallen legends who have paid the incomparable cost for the barrier of our beyond a reasonable doubt cherished nation. The vital help being given the NA by the Federal Government and the altruism of the Nigerian masses will without a doubt keep on prodding the NA towards a definitive annihilation of the exceptionally corrupted BHTs." 

Then, in a quick response to the assault, President Muhammadu Buhari dispatched Mansur Dan-Ali, priest of resistance, for a crisis meeting with Chadian President Idris Deby.