{"id":1559,"date":"2019-01-02T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:16:21","slug":"boko-haram-not-better-equipped-than-us-nigerian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/boko-haram-not-better-equipped-than-us-nigerian-army","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram not better equipped than us \u2013 Nigerian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday denied claims that it was using inferior weapons to fight the Boko Haram terrorist group.<\/span><\/p>\n

It said it would continue to fight the insurgent group until it won despite all challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBoko Haram terrorists are not better equipped than the Nigerian Army. Nigerian Army is the pride of the nation,\u201d the army said on its social media pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several videos\u00a0had surfaced in recent times showing soldiers lamenting that they were given\u00a0inferior weapons to fight against Boko Haram, which had superior weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent video, a soldier had bemoaned, \u201cMany of our men have died. We have to go home. If Nigeria is ready, they can call us back to fight those idiots (terrorists).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut we do not have adequate weapons to fight them. We are going home to be with our families. Weapons make a soldier. Without weapons, you are not a soldier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 18, 2018, a faction of the Boko Haram sect, Islamic State of West Africa, had attacked the 157 Task Force Battalion in Metele, Borno State, firing rocket-propelled grenades at soldiers and reportedly killing more than 100 soldiers and injury of 31.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the soldiers who survived the incident had claimed the weapons used by the terrorists were more sophisticated than theirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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