Chibuzor Ever who is a soldier, wrote this piece describing the life of a Nigerian soldier. Read below
Story of a Soldier
It is not easy been a soldier!!
We have cloth in our wardrobes but the nature of the job leaves no chance to wear them!!
Patrol and escort both in the summer and winter
dressing combatantly everyday like an astonaut
while others are asleep we are awake...
While you drink table water and beverages in your homes, we manage water in the jungle
we do this just to suppress terrorism!!!
You lay on beds at night while we lay on tents and trench...
While you think of how to embazzle funds we think of how to attack external forces!!!
It is a work to God and humanity.
You fucking scream when you are cut by blade we endure when we are hit by a bullet!!!
When a soldier die, they dont take it as anything....
To them it is a normal thing!!!
But when their wives have miscarriage the whole earth will hear their cry!!!
May be you dont know we are also born from a woman.
Ohh Lord! I pray that every person, people, community, organization or parastatal that whishes me and my fellow soldiers awful death.....dry thunder from heaven should strike them down..
Do i hear you say amen!
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ReplyDeleteGod bless our heroes
Delete...merited happiness
He started well but ended badly. We might not take ur suffering seeiously but no one wishes u death sir.
DeleteLong Live LIB
True talk...May the ALMIGHTY continue to be with you guys...
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Delete***Ohh Lord! I pray that every person, people, community, organization or parastatal that whishes me and my fellow soldiers awful death.....dry thunder from heaven should strike them down.. Do i hear you say amen!****
DeleteAMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteAmen... . It's well
Deletehmmmmmmm,it is well
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AMEN!!!!
ReplyDeleteNA ME SEND U TO JOIN ARMY work HUH?are u tired huh? Then resign! freeborn hiss. Hope that all these u wrote here is for apc,northern leaders and hausas huh?BECAUSE FREEBORN HAS NOT SEE ANY GOOD IMPACT FROM SOLDIERS IN NIGER DELTA OR IBO LAND EXCEPT INTIMIDATION AND KILLING INNOCENT INDIGENES SO BACK OF DUDE. This is what you sign for so enjoy am with ur last breath FREEBORN NO DEY PITY UNA SINCE UNA JOIN APC AND TERRORIST BUHARI IN KILLING NIGER DELTANS AND IPOD SO una never seen any thing yet.
ReplyDeleteDude u want freeborn to pity huh? Back off.
#sad indeed
Freeborn,
DeleteThe soldiers didn't join the military so that they will be used to play political games. They didn't sign up for polical games.
Secondly, when you are a soldier, do you just decide to resign and then resign??????
I no blame you sha, if to say boko boys don do anything wey directly affect you e.g. bombing of your mouth, you for no write anyhow about this...
If nobody joins d army do u think u will av rest of mind or b safe???? Don't b a fool plssss
DeleteWhy are you a fool ??? .... you should Atleast have little common sense cus it xmas
DeleteTrue talk free born, oppression crocodile smile, oppression python dance, all this is to innocent people fighting for their right, while fulani herldsman is killing people in their own house and farm we never hear any oppression fulani dance or smile, if una want to join politics you guys are most welcome after all most of our politicians are one time military.
DeleteAmen
ReplyDeleteAmen
ReplyDeleteAmen to dat prayer. God will Guide u always bro, God bless u always.
ReplyDeleteWhen u dey sign to join u no know wetin de!
ReplyDeleteWhen u dey sign to join u no know wetin de!
ReplyDeleteWar saw war never saw war until war saw war.... To all serving and the dead soldiers,may all your blood and sweats ask those you don't wish you well. @freeborn,talk is cheap but ask you parents what happened on the 6th of July 1976 to 15 of January 1970. I pity your condition
ReplyDeleteWar saw war never saw war until war saw war. To all living and dead soldiers, may the forgotten terror of war never strike you down. @freeborn go ask your parents and elders what happened on the 6th of July 1967 to 15 January 1970.talk is cheap but you are just a kid.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been a better poetic expression of reality if only the end wasn't part of it. I wish you well bro! Just hang on and soldier on cos your good work will lead to a good fruition.
ReplyDeleteThe last bit of it is for you IPOB sympathisers who wish the president bad and hope that the war against BH would fail so that your wicked desire to mock the president would come to pass
DeleteMay god b with u bro.
ReplyDeleteIt is for this reason that the fork was created to be used for picking food as against the fingers. If everyone adopts this simple principle, this soldier would have more courage to defend our country. But when he remembers that some people are acquiring what they did not deserve or worked for, and they go scot free, he feels bad. That indeed is the essence of equity and justice. If you chose to use your fingers as against the fork...you deserve to "get equal measure of punishment . That's the only way to move forward.
ReplyDeleteIt is for this reason that the fork was created to be used for picking food as against the fingers. If everyone adopts this simple principle, this soldier would have more courage to defend our country. But when he remembers that some people are acquiring what they did not deserve or worked for, and they go scot free, he feels bad. That indeed is the essence of equity and justice. If you chose to use your fingers as against the fork...you deserve to "get equal measure of punishment . That's the only way to move forward.
ReplyDeleteAwwww... Bless you gallants! #Heroes
ReplyDeleteI support free born thunder fire dat soldier go and c how professional American soldiers are.when i watched 13hours in Benghazi I had mad respect for American combantant.Nigerian army have had issues of extra judicial killings,maiming and rape so what is dis chap talking about no b by force to join army.
ReplyDeleteMy stupid brother this is not a movie may GOD not appreciate your existence until you no what the soldiers go through to keep us safe u re clouded by hate u inherited that is why nothing good comes out of u n your peeps go and get a bag of LAKE rice n see what we can all achieve together.
DeleteNonsense talk from someone who probably joined d army to intimidate civilians.
ReplyDeleteMAY GOD STRENGHTEN YOU AND YOUR FELLOW SOLDIERS
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Nobody forced you to enlist.. retire and go wear the clothes in ur wardrobe and sleep in ur comfy bed but beware of what happens to those who carry out embezzlement efcc dey wait u.
ReplyDeleteMay God continue to strengthen u all...
ReplyDeleteLoud Amen buddie, even wen we signed for it, no one should wish deathto a fellow human . Wen a soldier die der sud b grief and pity to d family #Godbless the armforces
ReplyDeleteAnd they don't even have good insurance and life insurance, so sad.
ReplyDeleteNo talk wetin you no de sure of....they have the best of any govt worker, educate yourself
DeleteWhat about some of us who are willing to serve without condition but re constrained by "man know man". Please retire; to serve Nigeria is not by force
ReplyDeleteThis soldier's article reminds me of Simonide's epitaph to mark the memorial of the Spartan (Greek) soldiers who took orders and died while defending their motherland in 480 BC at Themopylae mountain and it read
ReplyDeleteGo tell Spartans thou who passeth
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Obedient to their law we lie here
That was to commemorate those soldiers who died while trying to hold ground in the battle of 480 BC. May the good Lord keep the men and officers of Nigerian Army (NA) who fight on in the front that we may celebrate this Xmas. Let us remember them that lost their lives in our collective defence so that these men like Abraham Lincoln would say 'will not have died in vain'
Sorry my brother na so life be sometimes
ReplyDeleteMate you re used to kill, you made the choice not forced to join terror group called army.
ReplyDeleteTurn your gun on commander and demand he turn his gun on his, then to the GOVT fuck off dick fools
I hate soldiers, you kill innocent and deserve no mercy
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ReplyDelete-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
You were not forced to join the army. Makes no sense swearing or cussing out people soldier boy
ReplyDeleteAnd you pretty got the Amens
ReplyDeleteAmeeennnnnnnn
ReplyDeleteThe Thunder is For Bokohari and his Cohorts, Amennnnnnnnnn..
ReplyDeleteMy friend nobody force you to join NA, if u don't have passion for the job, just quit. If na civilian now, una body go dey show una sef anyhow. Stop wasting your time in NA, join IPOB, and liberate ur people.
ReplyDeleteamen to dt brother
ReplyDeleteI'm not seeing any humility, courtesy or discipline which is the landmark of a soldier in this post. He has indirectly insulted people who have chosen other profession outside the military. I strongly suggest that someone should be cautioned before he gets so jealous of others with his arms.
ReplyDeletewords, but so much anger. we wish everyone in the military well and we pray for you all, that God protect you as you protect others too. this i say AMEN too...
ReplyDeleteHe is full of pain and bitter minds, but he wrote the truth.
ReplyDeleteU started well and end so badly besides, nobody send u to join soldiers.
ReplyDeleteYou chose the life. If you were conscripted report to civil society groups
ReplyDeleteRead well and don't miscoat that guy he any body Wey no wish them so if u wish am bad,make thunder strike u,because him dey try...he has made his point clear
ReplyDeletewhile we are strugling to pay,medical bills. our tax is paying urs..while we are strugling to pay lite bill. our tax is pay for ur family. u are not doing it for free.. govt dont owe u salaries like other civil servant... we apriciate ur effort to keep our country safe. but we dont dont apreciate ur writting dis shit.. u knw before you joind the army. we civilians dont wish u death and never will. no body forced u to stay in the military.. get out if you are tired.
ReplyDeleteThank you...the annoying thing is that he is other ranks, has not had a major injury, prob a private if his worry is clothing.,stupid write up
DeleteI served in the Nigerian Army as a boy soldier, and also served in the US Army as a soldier. While it was always nice to feel appreciated for my service, at no point did I compare my circumstances with that of the average civilian. The civilian owed me nothing, I voluntarily enlisted in the Army(of both countries),I was fully aware of the occupational hazards, and I was paid to do my job. This fellow needs to soldier-up and do his job without worrying about the presumed privileges of civilian life. The doctor, sometimes, stays up at work for days while everyone sleeps, the security guard stays up while others sleep...many other people do many other unsavory jobs but take it in stride as it is a job they took on. This attitude of resentment is what leads military personnel in Nigeria to engage in maltreatment of civilians whom they are paid to protect from external aggressors. Perhaps, some of Nigeria's soldiers expected to remain in garrison throughout their careers, and now lash out uncontrollably when they are actually deployed to do the job for which they are paid and trained. In the US Army, the reality of combat was ever present, hence we constantly trained like we fight, and spent as much time as possible perfecting our craft to ensure that we always get the upper hand against the enemy. What civilians are doing with their lives should be the last thing on a soldiers mind. In conclusion, I'll advice this soldier to be a professional, focus on the task at hand, so that he can be a useful asset to his unit, as they strive to successfully execute their mission. Stop worrying about civilians and focus your attention on your primary objective, which is to obliterate the enemy. God speed!
ReplyDeleteNIGERIAN SOLDIERS ARE THE WORST IN HUMAN RIGHTS. THEIR SAVAGERY HAS NO PART TWO. THEY MISTREAT AND KILL UNARMED CIVILIANS. BY THE WAY, WHO BEG YOU TO JOIN ARMY? IS THE MILITARY BY COMPULSORY SERVICE LIKE NYSC? OLOSHI, IF YOU DEY LOOK FOR WHO DRY THUNDER GO FIRE KIA KIA TURN TO YOUR OGAS WEY DEY CHOP YOUR MONEY. OMO OSHI.
ReplyDeleteAmen i like that bro.. But no body send you to go and join the soldier please don't complain God bless.....
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