The troop morale is actually very low, very low.

CNN’s Nic Robertson published a report on Thursday on the Nigerian army’s war against Boko Haram. Part of the fallout from that report was a claim by an anonymous officer that the army is so neglected that they even have to individually pay for their own uniforms.

The soldiers don’t ever benefit from the billions allocated to the defense budget, he explains. He even had to buy his own uniform.

“The troop morale is actually very low, very low, because we are not issued a uniform, we buy the uniforms ourselves,”

Worse, he says that sometimes it’s difficult to identify who is who in the battlefield.

When they go into battle, no one has the same uniform, so when they run from Boko Haram it’s chaos. They don’t know who is friend or foe — whom to shoot and whom to help.

Till date, many families do not know what’s happened to their husbands, sons and fathers. 

However, the Nigerian army’s best response to this damning report was to call it ‘satanic’.