Metele attack: Over 100 soldiers died , many are missing – Nigerian soldiers (Video) 

Troops fighting on the frontlines of the Boko Haram conflict in northeastern Nigeria have released a video claiming at least 100 soldiers died in a recent attack and deploring the poor state of their equipment.
In the five-minute video seen by AFP on Saturday, a soldier narrating in the background shows the burnt shells of several tanks and vehicles at the Metele base, which was attacked by the IS-affiliated Islamic State West Africa Province on November 18.

The video below that is trending online is not the latest attack in Metele, it is the Zari attack on 30th August 2018.

Buhari boasted that #Bokoharam has been technically defeated & degraded to the point that they only attack soft targets.#ISWAP replied by routing army bases.

~ July 14, over 200 soldiers killed in Jili
~ Nov 18 & 19, over 100 soldiers killed in Martelepic.twitter.com/hw9M1Tu2Yn

— Dadiyata The Jonathanian (@The_Jonathanian) November 23, 2018

At least 43 soldiers were killed in the attack according to military and civilian sources, though the army disputes the death toll.

The video came as it emerged Saturday that around a dozen girls had been kidnapped by suspected members of Boko Haram in border villages in southeastern Niger.

It underscored growing desperation among troops, who in June protested at being redeployed to the remote Lake Chad region after fighting Boko Haram jihadists for years without relief.

“No less than 100 plus soldiers died here. Many are missing in action, they are nowhere to be found,” said the soldier in the video, which was obtained by AFP from a military source who confirmed its authenticity.

“See the weapons they bring here. These are not working,” he said as the footage revealed the charred remains of tanks and other military equipment.

“These are outdated vehicles, they are not working. They just keep them here for formality,” said the soldier.

“Imagine, they are killing us every day,” he said. “The situation is getting worse.”

The video shows the sprawling camp in the middle of the desert, 260 kilometres (161 miles) from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.

There was no immediate response from the army on the release of the video.

More than 27,000 people are thought to have been killed in the nine-year Islamist insurgency that has triggered a humanitarian crisis and left 1.8 million people without homes

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