Exposed! What Nigerian Soldiers Get As Daily Allowance

One of President Muhammadu Buhari foremost boys, Oluwakayode Olumide Ogundamisi popularly called “Sankara” took to his facebook account to reveal the real salary of Nigerian soldiers fighting Boko Haram.

According to Sankara, the gallant troops of the Nigerian Army receive a paltry N500 as daily allowance.

He said: “Yesterday I stated Nigerian soldiers fighting Boko Haram earn N60K as salary. The correct figure is N49K = $249 monthly or £157 monthly. Daily feeding is N500 = £1.60p or $2.50. Go figure defence budget and please defence budget covers not just the Nigerian Army, it includes all the Armed Forces and allied security agencies. As I dig more from sources and get more documents I weep more for Nigeria. What is being done to those men and women who chose to fight for Nigeria is not just criminal but inhuman. A probe of all defence spendings is needed now! Not tomorrow.”

Here are some tweets below:

#NigerianSoldiers are over 79% short of the required round of ammunitions needed for the number of AK47 they have in the armoury. SCANDAL
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) August 6, 2015

#NigerianSoldiers in North East task force against Boko Harram are approximately 17K. They can not train as ammunitions had to be “managed”
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) August 6, 2015

An officer who trains elite #NigerianSoldiers fighting Boko Harram told me he had to improvise by training his men via youtube clips
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) August 6, 2015

Young Captain told me he sometimes had to encourage his men to take civilian cloths with them in case they run out of Amo #NigerianSoldiers
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) August 6, 2015

Told #NigerianSoldiers get high casualty due to almost none existing Air Support. Boko Harram get enough time to manoeuvre in open fields.
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) August 6, 2015

#NigerianSoldiers complain that a number of heavy tanks guzzle a lot of gas but not enough supply so they abandon & Boko Harram pick up easy
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) August 6, 2015

I am told Boko Harram fuel supply is more effective than that #NigerianSoldiers receive making it easy for terrorist to take our vehicles
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) August 6, 2015