''The troops of 181 Amphibious Batallion, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State While on peace mission to OKUOMA community in BOMADI LGA of Delta State were surrounded by some community youths and killed on Thursday, 14 March, 2024.
The unfortunate incident occurred when the troops responded to a distress call after the communal crisis between the Okuama and Okoloba communities both in Delta State.
The reinforcement team led by the Commanding officer was also attacked, leading to the death of the Commanding officer, two Majors, one Captain and 12 Soldiers.
The Chief of Defence Staff ( CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa has directed the immediate investigation and arrest of those involved in the heinous crime.
The Chief of Defence Staff ( CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa has directed the immediate investigation and arrest of those involved in the heinous crime.
The occurrence has been reported to the Delta State Govt.
However, the military remains focused and committed to its mandate of maintaining peace and security in the country.
However, the military remains focused and committed to its mandate of maintaining peace and security in the country.
So far, a few arrests have been made while steps are in place to unravel the motive behind the attack.
Additional details later.''
TUKUR GUSAU
Brigadier General
Acting Director, Defence Information.
TUKUR GUSAU
Brigadier General
Acting Director, Defence Information.
Africans and babarism. May God help us.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness!
ReplyDeleteSo this is true? This is so sad.
What a big loss to the military and the nation at large.
May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.
May their loved ones be strengthened and comforted.
I really don't understand why personnels going to ensure peace in a community should be killed. A huge loss.
These men are people's sons, husbands, Fathers, brothers,grandsons, friends etc.
This news really saddens
May their soul rip. When they retaliate now they'll start crying like dogs. Same happened in Israel now they're crying. If you beat a child don't tell it how to cry.
DeleteArmy no dey forgive oo. What were they thinking?. Foolish youth. How can you take lives you didn’t create
ReplyDeleteThis is very bad o
ReplyDeleteAmbush and kill those sent to help quell and diffuse the already volatile situation in the said communities is very wicked.
When the repercussions of their actions play out,they shouldn't claim victimization.
The only down side is that the innocent are often caught in the crossfire.
Very unfortunate situation.
Innalillahi wa innihi rajiun. May their soul rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteI condemn this barbaric act and hope the real culprits are the ones caught and not innocent people.
ReplyDeleteI understand the military grouse but this action of burning down every houses of the affected community should be stopped. This only happens in the South. Soldiers are killed everyday in the north and never for once we have seen or read that houses of northerners were razed down.
They should stop inflicting more pains and hardship to innocent people who are not involve in the whole brouhaha. What will burning of the houses do to the lives of the lost solders? No civilize country will do that for Christ sake.
© TEEJAY
You simply have no iota of reasonable reasoning. If your bosom friend was among those killed, you won't be spewing nonsense from that guttermouth of yours. The community housed those killers, they deserve every punishment meted out by the military.
DeleteI don't understand Teejay,have soldiers started burning houses in the community already?
DeleteI would like to see the day you would drop a comment concerning issues like this and political issues without comparing the North and the South.
DeleteIf i ask you a sincere question now, you might not be able to answer. Have you ever been to the north? The core north? The insurgency inflicted north? How then did you know what soldiers do there? Smone here would run with what you wrote and before you know it, you have spread rumors and start creating bias in the mind of people. This is no post about passing blames, this is a post about loss, about mourning people. Ur remaining paragraphs made a mockery of ur first paragraph. Learn to say the things at the right time, it would get u far in life. The right things said at the wrong time would mess you up one day.
Let them continue; they will not remove the evil government in power. !!! If they are not careful; this will lead to the revolution! They are looking for; Because the infiltration of fulanis and boko haram in the army across the Niger Delta region is alarming. Nigeria is gone; we must not heat up the region; by burning houses of innocent citizen. Buhari allowed boko haram infiltrate the army and the police; who are now causing harm all over Nigeria.
DeleteLet's be guided with the kind of postings concerning this matter.
There was a dispute that resulted to communal clash. The Army was invited according to the report from the people. In the process, it was believed the solders took side that necessitated all that's happening.
DeleteNow let's look at it this way. Why would Army be the first point of contact in a communal crisis? We know military aren't the best idea in controlling communal crisis. Is that how the military have been reduced? The governor should have invited some of the communities youths and chiefs and with some police around in a peace meeting settlement. Just maybe this would have been avoided.
I am sad by the loss and my condolence to the family of our gallant men and my comparison isn't borne out of tribal sentiment but of the sad reality the military has always been known for in destruction of peoples ancestral homes in the south when an unfortunate incidence like this occur.
We saw that in Odi massacre. Same thing in Orlu and another place known as Ogubra or so. I feel their pains but should they destroy a whole community in retaliation? If that's acceptable and a practice in the force, then while is it selective and only applicable to the South alone?
People who committed this gruesome acts may have all left the community and the innocent locals are being killed in reprisals. Houses razed to ashes. How would anyone whose house worth millions was razed down over a thing they have no hands on.
All I'm saying is that, burning down every houses in a community isn't the best way to go rather an intelligent team draft out immediately to fish out the culprits and sponsors of this terrible acts.
© TEEJAY
And I still ask Teejay,have houses been destroyed already? Have they burned down houses already? Please update us,because so far most of us haven't heard of any retaliations by the soldiers.Because it would be terribly wrong of us to presume.
DeleteTJ you are very correct on this one! The army is not the courts, this was a civil matter; that the communities would have taken to court! My sister is going through serious bullying from her evil landlord; who took her to court and is still taking the law and matters into his hands; people were advising her to get the army involved; but she refused! If the army or police comes in now with aggression; all the landlord's evil will be forgotten!!! The army is not one to go to for communal clashes; but the Nigerian courts. Let them not carry their yeye aggression into Delta State; is all I am saying right now. It is well !!!
DeleteThank you anonymous. It's a civil matter that didn't warrant the Army in the first place but cos it's Teejay saying it, some persons here will always attack and hate on him. Military are known for aggression and have never solved issues like this.. The killers won't just see the solders on the way and kill theme. Something might have gone wrong that necessitated all these but then, I still condemn the gruesome murder of the solders and pray perpetrators are caught.
Delete© TEEJAY
14:03, do u know that the army has a civil military branch? Do you know that the communal clash in the Niger delta is sometimes behond what the police can handle, they have to deploy soldiers there? There was an ongoing clash, the police cannot go, so they should wait and kill themselves by waiting for the court? Does court restore law and order when it has broken down? When there is an ongoing clash what do u suggest they do? Wait for court processes to be served, then date for hearing fixed, then go for mention and start the case? What happens to the ongoing fight, who would restore the law and order back to the community? Oh i forgot it’s the judge.
DeleteSometimes u guys talk without knowledge. I kno this because my husband is a military man, and he once served in those areas, so their community clash is something beyond even the police. And i am a lawyer, i kno the process of court and justice. So i dnt get what you are saying here.
Thank you for this comment
DeleteO Lord pls continue to protect my boy ( Eba tutu) you can imagine this nonsense, when we are not war. This was exactly what happens to Odi during Obasanjo regime.. Dey don buy market for their village bcos Military will show them she.
ReplyDeleteThis is so absurd and heartbreaking
ReplyDeleteThese soldiers have families,wives,children
Rest in peace to the fallen heros
As for the Community, hope they are prepared for what is to come.
This is not good! Imagine the number of soldiers whose lives were unjustly terminated! May their souls rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteMay their souls rest in peace
ReplyDeleteThis kind soldiers na wa oo. Killed so easily. Are soldiers no longer Gallant? May their souls rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteThey could have been ambushed. When they go on a peacekeeping mission, they don't expect to be the victims of aggressive attacks by one of the warring factions
DeleteAbionah,it's not by force to comment.what kind of insensitive comment is dat? Bcos ur not affected?bcos ur not related to them?no human empathy at all .I pity u.ur mocking d dead? Really?ur something else .
DeleteMay God rest thier souls!!
ReplyDeleteThose people though... civilians killing 10 or more soldiers? Gallant men o! Thats barbaric! Such wickedness is inborn.
ReplyDeleteWrong and condemnable action by those who did it.
ReplyDeleteJustice should be meted only against them and their sponsor(s), not on the captive indigenes of the town(s) where they hail from.
#NoToJungleJustice
They should be grateful to God that it did not happen during the military regime, they should also be thankful that president tinubu is not an ex military man because they definitely not go unpunished.
ReplyDeleteThis is so barbaric and inhumane 😭😭😭. May the souls of the departed,rest in peace 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
ReplyDeleteA Lt Colonel, 2 majors and 1 captain plus 12 soldiers. Tell me how that community will not be leveled to the ground in the next few days?
ReplyDeleteSo sad
ReplyDeleteMay their souls rest in peace
They where not there for any peace mission,they went there on the side of the ijaw community and started murdering innocent people from the opposing urhobo community,this swar is not over,more.of them will go down if they continue misbehaving as they are doing now.
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