The Mass Revolution Has Finally Reached The Nigerian Military

There are two groups in Nigeria: the 168 million disaffected masses, a majority of whom live under a dollar-a-day and are the victims of outrageous government and private partner corruption, and the ruling Oligarchy. The revolution of and on behalf of the Nigerian masses can no longer be ignored as it has recently assumed new dimensions, with the military junior officers joining in, and the international community also in no weak terms, raising the urgency of the compromised plight of the nation’s people in the hands of devastating, failed, corrupt leadership and regime facilitated terrorism. For the second time in barely two weeks, Nigeria’s 7thdivision soldiers drafted to combat Boko Haram in the northeast have revolted against their commanders. Mutiny is a very grievous military occurrence. The two instances of deliberate mutiny by Nigeria’s soldiers delivers a strong message— the junior officers are willing to be court-martialed, rather than continue to be sabotaged, humiliated and killed by the corruption and incompetence of the military top command and federal government. The sabotage of the Nigerian army in operations, logistics and equipment has been brought to the fore, not only by the increased superior public displays of capacity and morale of the Boko Haram rag-tag army, but by visiting foreign military partners and reports from local and foreign media on instances of deliberate sabotage and the diversion of funds and frank underfunding of the nation’s army. Nigeria, recently re-designated as Africa’s largest economy is unable to provide its soldiers involved in one of the most asymmetrical and deadly insurgencies in recent African history, the necessary hardware, tools for obtaining actionable intelligence and even food and accommodation to successfully engage the enemy. Reports have it that whereas, Boko Haram and a government