The deaths of top military commanders and soldiers in the Okuama community, Bomadi region of Delta State, have been clarified by Major General Cecil Esekhaigbe (Retd). After hearing that the area was being cordoned off by military, Esekhaigbe stressed how crucial it was to recover the soldiers’ firearms.
In an interview with Channels TV, Esekhaigbe likened soldiers’ firearms to a soldier’s “first wife,” highlighting their crucial role in military operations. He clarified that the mission isn’t to raze down the community, as rumored on social media, but to conduct thorough searches to recover the missing weapons.
In Esekhaigbe’s words: “The riffle of a soldier is his 1st wife, wherever that riffle is missing they will get it. So the cordon and search is aimed at getting those weapons that they seized after killing those officers and men so we have to get those weapons back. The weapons, those riffles, and other weapons of the soldiers are their first wives so nobody finds his wife missing and just allows it to be laid to rest. So the mission here is to retrieve those weapons and they will retrieve those weapons. I read on social media that the Nigerian army has gone to raze down that community, you are emphasizing razing down a community without understanding the complex nature of what has happened and the effect on the psyche of the military. They are there to cordon off and search that place for their weapons”
