by Fulan Nasrallah
Maiduguri: Reports indicate that soldiers of the Nigerian Army 7 Division (Infantry) headquartered in the metropolis of Maiduguri are evacuating their families out of two important Army bases (Giwa and Maimalari barracks) including the divisional headquarters after letters and fliers from the Boko Haram were dropped off in strategic locations across the metropolis (including at the gates of the bases) announcing the intention of the insurgents to attack and take over the city of over 1.8 million people, the largest and most important urban centre in North East Nigeria.
WarZone South: 4th September 2014, insurgent forces attack and push military forces out of positions around Kawuri Town in Konduga LGA just south of Maiduguri. Residents are said to be rapidly emptying out of the town to Maiduguri and other areas as they fear a repeat of the January 2014 slaughter when insurgents stormed the town overnight and massacred over 80 civilians.
Confirmed: Thousands of insurgent fighters are massing up to the south and east of Maiduguri according to sources on the ground. Aerial reconnaissance conducted by Nigerian AirForce pilots is said to show that more fighters than the insurgents are thought to have (by conventional analysts basing their analyses on faulty Intel) are forming up at suspected stand-up points. Heavy towed artillery, armoured vehicles and Triple-A guns are confirmed to have been sighted.
Last month two Nigerian pilots faced being put before a court martial after they refused to bomb the coordinates of their primary targets (which were Nigerian troops in the field) and headed back to base. On their way back to Maiduguri they overflew more than a thousand insurgent fighters in Toyota pickups and armoured vehicles and heading to an unknown destination. The pilots made the split decision to drop their payloads on the insurgents. As soon as the insurgents saw them coming round to attack they opened fire with 57mm and 23mm Triple-A guns and heavily damaged the AirForce plane while suffering some casualties. The AirForce pilots skillfully brought the plane to base and made a hard landing only for them to be arrested and detained for disobeying orders to strike their primary targets. They were accused by Defence an AirForce Intelligence of lying about the Triple A guns and were facing charges of negligence amongst others. Now subsequent aerial recon missions to the fall of Bama have vindicated their claim.
An agreement brokered by Sheikh Bukar Al-Barnawi on 4th September will see all four factions join forces to attack (invest) and capture Maiduguri . This comes as negotiators from the factions of Sheikh Bukar Al-Barnawi, Sheikh Khalid Al-Barnawi and Abu Usamah Al-Ansori are said to be currently meeting in Gwoza for talks on proposed merger of the three groups into one body.
One source says up to 15,000 fighters may take part in any attack on Maiduguri…
Adamawa: Meanwhile eight of the fifteen aspirants for the ticket of the coming October 11 Governorship Election on the platform of the PDP have stepped down after a marathon meeting with Senate President David Mark at the Presidential Villa in Abuja which lasted till the early hours of Friday 5th September.
Amongst them is Nuhu Ribadu (I personally do not like this man) former anti-corruption czar under the Obasanjo administration and Presidential Candidate of the Action Congress (one of the parties which merged into the All Peoples Congress) during the 2011 Presidential Elections against President Jonathan (he lost woefully to the President and General Buhari and was insignificant during the election).
6th September 2014 Emergency Nigeria SITREP
The town of Gulak in Adamawa State was overrun yesterday evening by insurgent forces according to local media reports. Other reports confirmed that hundreds of insurgent fighters (most probably the recent fresh troops reportedly crossing in from Cameroon days back) in Toyota pickup trucks backed by truck mounted heavy machine guns and over a dozen armoured vehicles stormed the town of Gulak causing over 400 Nigerian troops members of Task Force Mike (Special Operations troops and elements of 3 Division Armoured headquartered at Jos, Plateau State) to flee the town to neighbouring Mubi.
Gulak had previously been designated the principal staging area for the launch of the counter attack to recover Madagali LGA from insurgent control.
Saker Message:
Dear fulan, you still haven’t answered my question. Where do you think BH is getting its supplies and training from?
Same question I was going to ask.
Thanks for this information. The weakness of the neocolonial entities that are called African states is even greater than I, an African, would have suspected.
It seems Boko Haram has transformed intoan insurgency per se with popular support in many areas. Much like ISIS. To be as successfull it must also have high level political support. Probably within the Nigerian state.
Thank you Fulan for this Sitrep. I find it remarkable that Boko Haram is using expensive material like Toyota pickups and heavy arty: this is starting to look like a carbon copy of Daash. Is the objective here also a destruction of Nigeria (like in Lybia, Syria and Iraq) ? Do you think that the creators of Daash (i.e. the Empire of Lies + some Arabian monarchies) could answer our questions about that?
Fulan Nasrallah,
Omigosh, that is Just. Plain. Horrible. about those pilots! Not surprising, though, since it just more strongly supports any assumptions re: Mossad/American/Saudi strong-arm tactics behind all of this. And I’m wondering about those danged Toyotas too, since there were some lovely new ones driving in convoys when ISIS first started too — and it sure would be interesting to find who bought them all, now wouldn’t it. dang. Again, I am so, so sorry for what we are doing to your country.
from India and Paul Cockshott,
I think Fulan may be somewhat (appropriately) reluctant to state his opinions on that bc of risks to both his own safety and that of those he knows and cares about. But I’ll state mine: the usual suspects, i.e., same as with ISIS, i.e., US, Israel and the Saudis, a True Trinity of Evil.
Nora there are two issues about supplies: who paid for them, and how did they physically get there. I can well believe the Saudi’s may be funding this. The US influence is more likely to be with the fundamentalist Christian sects who are proselytising in the North which is traditionally Muslim. But how on earth did heavy military equipment suddenly appear in a landlocked corner of Northern Nigeria? Is it captured Libyan army stock driven accross the desert?
@Nora: I think Fulan may be somewhat (appropriately) reluctant to state his opinions on that bc of risks to both his own safety and that of those he knows and cares about.
Dearest Sister,
Well said Nora, well said. Very observant.
I think the name Fulan Nasrallah is testament to the above.
God protect Fulan Nasrallah and his beloved ones!
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Once again thank you for keeping us informed.
A very vivid and detailed account.
So much going on on so many fronts, the kind of coordinated activity one sees in Daash. Reminds me of hive mentality or swarm tactics. Completely overwhelming the foe by attacking on so many fronts.
No good deed goes unpunished, for those pilots too.
And, If you don’t like Nuhu Ribadu, neither do we.
Mindfriedo