English: Just like the officers deserting, the Military itself has long abandoned any mentality of “no retreat, no surrender,’ having steadily been on the retreat from several military bases. Weeks ago, they shut down two bases in Gudumbali and Kukawa. “We retreated to Monguno before Baga was attacked. Now, some soldiers and residents are running away from Monguno to Maiduguri,” reported a soldier in Shagari Low Cost Housing Estate in Maiduguri. He highlights the utter helplessness of the soldiers: what is disturbing is the effrontery of “ISWAP in making sure that we are fully made aware of their plans ahead of any attack. There was never an attack that we don’t see in advance, yet we are helpless,” he lamented.
Igbo: dịka ndị ọrụ na-apụ, ụlọ agha n'onwe ya ewezugala echiche 'alaghị azụ, akwụsịghị ọgụ' abụrụla ndị lara azụ n'ọdọ agha dị iche iche. Izuụka olenaole gara aga, ha mechiri ụlọ agha abụọ na Gudumbali na Kukawa. "Anyị gbagara na Monguno tutu awakpo Baga. Ugbua, ọtụtụ ndị agha na ndị mmadụ na-agbapụ na Monguno jee Maiduguri," ka onye agha n'ụlọ obibi ọnụ ala nke Shagari na Maiduguri kwuru. O kwuru enweghị enyemaka ndị agha. Nke dị njọ bụ etu ndị ISWAP si agba mbọ ịhụ na anyị matara nkwado ha maka ime mwakpo. O nweghị mwakpo ọbụla mere nke anyị ahụghị tutu o mee, agbanyeghị nkea, anyị enweghị enyemaka," ka o kwuru n'olu akwa.