IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: THE REAL REASON TERRORISTS ONCE RAN FROM NIGERIAN SOLDIERS
🇳🇬🇳🇬 Before the narratives shifted, there was a unit that made Boko Haram commanders order their fighters to avoid contact at all costs.
The Armed Forces Special Force (AFSF).
Raised in 2014, these were not mercenaries. They were Nigerian soldiers 700 of them, selected from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. They trained in Belarus and Pakistan, returning with skills that terrified the enemy.
In 2015, they spearheaded the recapture of Bama, Baga, Damboa, Marte, and Kangarwa. Terrorists called them "haya n soja" not because they were foreign, but because their coordination and lethality were unlike anything the insurgents had faced.
Yet somehow, we disbanded them.
By 2021, the AFSF was "no longer together as a unit." Harmonized back into services. Dispersed. Diluted.
I didn't see any logic in that decision but what can I do, what impact can I make in the decisions. In a fight or war like this, you don't change a winning team.
Yes, some elements were folded into the Defence Special Ops Force (DSOF), which still performs. But breaking up the original formation meant losing institutional memory, battlefield cohesion, and the psychological edge over an enemy that once fled at their mention.
The AFSF bled, fought and they won.
We should never have let it fade but one way or the other we let them go😢😢😢.
Ask yourself: if a unit made terrorists run, why would you break it up?🤷♂️
Nigeria needs to learn: Elite Forces aren't built in a day. They're forged in battle and destroyed by policy.
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Like I said earlier not everyone should speak on security issues. The past success recorded against terrorists wasn't because of mercenaries, yes they helped in training and even participated. But the AFSF were the major players. Small deadly unit that we shouldn't have scrapped.