Pyrrhic Victory: Buhari Celebrates the ‘Capture’ of a Piece of Rag!

by Eze Eluchie,

What really did Mr. Buhari and his military commanders think they had achieved by ‘capturing’ a rag-tag hand painted flag of Boko Haram from the over-hyped Sambissa Forest? Is the piece of cloth representative of the Boko Haram spirit and its 'capture' thus indicative of the end of Boko Haram?

Did Buhari and his Officers mistake this rag-tag piece of cloth for the ‘Military Colors’ associated with standard armies that must be protected at all costs and never be captured? Are Nigerians and the wider international community supposed to applaud this ‘feat’?  

It is perhaps high time an evaluation of the curricular of the various Military trainning courses some of our military leaders attend is undertaken, to ascertain the efficacy of such training to modern day realities. It’s either the curricular of such military training institutions are suspect or Nigeria has been sending intellectually challenged personnel to such institutions leading to graduates of such institutions not imbibing what they had been taught. I doubt that the Military training institutions in Aldershot, Sandhurst, Carlisle or Chennai, on which Nigeria has spent several millions of dollars on training of military officers could have taught our soldiers to celebrate the capture of a rag from a bunch of terrorists.

The fact that what they claim to have ‘captured’ is at variance with the known Boko Haram flag does not seem to douse their misplaced sense of achievement. And to imagine that the 'captured' flag was handed over to the Commander-in-Chief at an elaborate event held at the official residence of the President, to which the media was invited!@# 

Clearly, these guys are far more clueless than one had ever envisioned – and the malaise is clearly getting worse by the day.

Picture: Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari receiving the ‘captured’ Boko Haram ‘flag’ from Major General Irabor (Commander of Nigeria Army’s Operation Lafiya Dole) at a lavish ceremony in the State House, Abuja; second pix, Abubakar Shekau, with the Boko Haram ‘flag’ serving as his background.