Terrorists Kill Edo-Born General Oseni Omoh Braimah In Borno Attack
Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah, Commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade under Operation Hadin Kai, has been killed following a deadly attack by Boko Haram terrorists on a military base in Benisheikh, Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State.
Braimah hailed from the Etsako-Afenmai stock of Edo State, where Senator Adams Oshiomhole comes from.
His death comes some five months after Brigadier General Musa Uba, was ambushed and killed by terrorists.
The latest attack, which occurred late on Wednesday, April 8, saw terrorists launching coordinated assaults on military positions in Benisheikh and Ngamdu, overpowering parts of the brigade formation.
Terrorists set ablaze the base during the intense firefight, with multiple military assets destroyed.
Brig. Gen. Braimah was killed in the line of duty alongside several soldiers.
Reports also indicate that the brigade’s Imam was among those killed.
Fighting back, Nigerian troops successfully had several terrorists neutralised during the battle.
Lamenting the incident, Abdul Mahmud wrote on Facebook:
“Last night, in Borno State, the 29 Brigade at Beinesheik was overrun. Not harassed. Not probed. Overrun. A full sentence, heavy with consequence. The Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah, Edo-born, Nigerian bred, soldier to the last breath, now lies silent. Another star extinguished, bringing the number of senior officers killed in recent times to three. Three. Another uniform folded into grief. Another family consigned to the polite cruelty of presidential condolences. Another confident account emerges from the army’s high command, assuring Nigerians that the terrorists were repelled and many neutralised. But the images from the Brigade command speak in a harsher tongue. They reveal scorched earth, charred military vehicles, and blackened timber strewn across the grounds, arranged with a grim deliberateness, like wood set in order upon an altar for sacrifice, as in the ancient scriptural scenes where offerings were prepared for the consuming fire.
“The prodigal sons are not wasting time. They are on a killing spree.
“I am reminded of that ancient Roman, satirist, Juvenal, who would have laughed. Not from amusement, but from that dark well where satire is drawn and absurdity and horror drink from the same cup. What is left to say when a state begins to speak in parables to men who answer only in bullets. Here, poetry redeems the arithmetic of death where generals fall and terrorists are invited to repentance with scriptural tenderness.
“Rome, in its decadence, still understood one thing. The enemy at the gate was not a metaphor.
“Here, the enemy is at once a theological subject and project.
-Abdul Mahmud, General Oluyede and the Prodigal Sons Who Return Only to Kill.”
