By Charles Pemu 
ABUJA—A wave of indignation and profound security concern has swept through Nigeria’s military circles following explosive commentary suggesting that the battlefield location of the late Brigadier General M. Uba was deliberately leaked from within the military command structure, leading directly to his execution by ISWAP terrorists.
Commentator Sunday Wale Adeniran asserts that the senior officer, widely regarded as brave and dedicated, transmitted his coordinates via WhatsApp to a high-level military command during a critical operation at the war front. This sensitive internal intelligence, meant strictly for operational use, was allegedly compromised and released to the press, subsequently enabling the terrorists to track and kill him.
Adeniran condemned the act as deeply suspicious and tragic, shifting the focus of culpability away from the media outlet that eventually published the information. He argued that while the media should not have released the sensitive content, they are “not as guilty as the one(s) who leaked it to them.”
“He sent his location to the Army. So where did the media get it from?” Adeniran queried, pointing directly to a compromise within the military’s communication protocols.
He lamented the grave risk posed by internal saboteurs and compromise, stressing that their presence among security personnel represents the “gravest danger” to troops on the frontline. “In the military, there are those who are not with us as law-abiding citizens,” he warned.
The death of Brigadier General Uba, the Commander of the Nigerian Army’s 25 Task Force Brigade in Damboa, Borno State, has renewed urgent calls for stricter information handling protocols and a thorough, internal investigation to unmask the source of the leak that may have tragically cost the commander his life.
“Adieu, Brigadier General M. Uba,” Adeniran wrote in his tribute. “A gallant commander who should never have been betrayed.”