PANIC in Nigeria as Soldiers Abandon Fight Against Boko Haram, says Boko Haram insurgents are equipped with better weapon. (Video)

There is panic in some part of Nigeria as soldiers deployed to fight boko haram were seeing running away from the face of the war . A video footage is trending online showing some Nigerian soldiers absconding from the war against Boko haram in Baga area of Borno state.

The gallant soldiers said when Nigeria Army is ready to provide them with weapons, they will come back and fight, but for now they are not ready to fight Boko Haram and keep wasting their lives. One of the soldiers confirmed that many of his colleagues have been killed. They said Boko Haram insurgents are equipped with better weapons

There has been intense fighting between the Boko Haram and Nigerian troops in Baga in the past few days. On Friday, the Nigerian air force announced how it deployed several aircraft to bomb gatherings of the insurgents who had attacked a military base in Baga.

On Sunday, the army, in a statement by Onyeka Nwachukwu, a colonel, accused some “unscrupulous individuals” of “trying to create panic and unnecessary humanitarian problems for undisclosed reasons.”

Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009,[ when the jihadist group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. In 2012, tensions within Boko Haram resulted in gradual split of the group between Salafist conservative faction led by Abu Usmatul al-Ansari, and the more dominant, violent faction led by Abubakar Shekau. By 2015, part of the group split into al-Qaeda affiliated Ansaru, and Shekau’s faction became ISIL’s West Africa branch.

In 2013, over 1,000 people died as a result of the conflict. The violence escalated dramatically in 2014, with 10,849 deaths. In 2014, the insurgency spread to neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger thus becoming a major regional conflict. In 2015, a coalition offensive forced Boko Haram to retreat into the Sambisa Forest. The insurgency took place within the context of long-standing issues of religious violence between Nigeria’s Muslim and Christian communities. Boko Haram has been called the world’s deadliest terrorist group, in terms of the number of people it has killed.