Somali soldiers attend a training session during the opening ceremony of a Turkish military base in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sept. 30, 2017.
VOA: Somalia: Up to 30 Percent of Soldiers Unarmed
Since September 2017, al-Shabab militants have overrun four Somali government military bases, killing more than 60 soldiers and seizing large quantities of weapons. Now, a military assessment by the Somali government found some of the troops manning these bases are completely unarmed.
The "Operational Readiness Assessment" conducted by the government found that approximately 30 percent of the soldiers in the bases do not have weapons. The evaluators said some units also lack medium and heavy weaponry, and some are "undermanned."
On Tuesday, Somali Defense Minister Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman acknowledged the army's shortcomings.
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WNU Editor: Corruption was the reason why the U.S. suspended military aid to the Somalia military last week .... US Suspends Aid to Much of Somali Military (VOA).
2 comments:
This is worse than ghost payrolling
With ghost payrolling a corrupt official makes up units or parts of a unit with fictitious men.
Putting people in uniform making them 'legitimate ' targets, but without the ability of defending themselves is abhorrent.
Nothing inspires esprit de corps like making your fingers into a gun shape and saying, "Bang, bang."
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