He said: “The commandment ‘thou shall not kill’ does not apply to Boko Haram, your conscience should not prick you when you kill them, it is even a sin to spare them and allow them to perpetuate doom on the people and the nation.”
He referred to soldiering as the noblest of all professions, asking, “what is nobler than dying or laying down ones life for a country?.”
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On why the wife of a soldier or widow of a dead soldier should feel proud, Nwankpa said; “It is nobler to associate with a noble man,” insisting that “the families of soldiers are nobler than them (the soldiers).”
He argued that it does not matter when we die but for what we die for, noting that “our heroes have given their lives so that our nation remains undivided.”