This is even cringe to write. So yesterday, Brigadier General Musa Uba,a commander of the Nigerian Army 25th Brigade, gets ambushed and killed, mark this, in an eerily similar manner as his colleague Brigadier General Dzarma Zirkushi and in the same theatre in November 2021. The terrain is some forest in Borno State run by Islamist fundamentalist. The good commander heads into an active theatre with 28 infantry soldiers, he is ambushed, some of his soldiers manage to evade and walk back to ground zero while he also slips from the ambush and sends a proof of life ‘POL’ video on whatsapp back to command center. News leak out that the commander has been captured, and the Nigerian army in quelling the news does a presser announcing the commander is alive and kicking. They (Nigerian army) send a search and recovery team to the whatsapp location, the Islamist now aware that they have a highly ranked soldier lost in their dense forest also deploy SIGINT and HUMINT ops, they get the commander and do what they do best, dispatch him to his maker, thereby striking a big blow to the counter insurgency ops in Nigeria.