"Military WIll Kill More Boko Haram Insurgents To Save Nigeria " -CDS

Posted by Lolade on Wed 17th Jun, 2015 - tori.ng

The Nigerian Military has vowed to retain its intensified battle against the proscribed Boko Haram sect until it finally rids the country of the group's incessant attacks.

Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Vice Marshal Alex Badeh, on Tuesday, June 16 assured that the military would keep killing terrorists until it rids the country of the protracted insurgency.

Badeh said the military would not sit back and watch Boko Haram insurgents split and destroy the country.

The CDS, who spoke in Abuja when a coalition of civil society group paid solidarity visit on Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said criticism of the military by Boko Haram sympathisers under war situation was meant to weaken operations and give the enemies an edge over troops in order to destroy the nation.

Badeh, who admitted that the military was under pressure, noted that soldiers in developed countries were doing worse things than what the Nigerian Army was being accused of.

Amnesty International had accused the Nigerian military and some of its officers, including Badeh, of war crimes since the war against Boko Haram insurgency started and were pressuring President Muhammadu Buhari to try them.

But the CDS said the military would not be deterred by these antics from their enemies.

“One thing the armed forces are doing is that we are not deterred by criticism. In war, nothing is equal and people behave differently under pressure.

“And war is the worst form of pressure any normal human being can ever face. So, if there are one or two infractions out there at the venue of war, it is normal. It happens in every army, the most developed armies had committed worst crimes,” he said, adding that the military would wait for investigation of the Amnesty report on crimes allegedly committed by some officers."