—TWENTY-Four hours after US
Secretary of State, John Kerry met
President Goodluck Jonathan and
former Head of State, General
Muhammadu Buhari, pledging his
country’s determination to work with
Nigeria and other countries to end
activities of the Boko Haram
terrorists, the Israeli media,
yesterday, revealed that the US
stopped Nigeria’s purchase of Chinook
military helicopters from Israel to
fight Boko Haram.
The sale/transfer of such aircraft
required a review by the US, to
determine its “consistency with US
policy interests,” Obama
administration officials told The
Jerusalem Post.
It quoted White House Assistant Press
Secretary and Director for Strategic
Communications, Ned Price, as saying
that reviews of such kind take place
in the case of “any requests for one
country to transfer US-origin
defence items to another country.”
Nigeria’s largest arms purchase ever
reported was from Israel in 2007, in a
deal with Aeronautics Systems worth
$260 million. That company is Israeli,
however, not American.
A single Chinook costs roughly $40
million to produce.
Vanguard had reported the Nigerian
military in the past as saying that the
country also resorted to training its
security personnel on terrorist
encounters in Russia and China
because of the refusal of the US
administration to sell arms to the
government following “unfounded
allegations of human rights violations
by our troops,” among others.



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However, the reports quoted
unnamed Nigerian officials as also
saying that the US blocked the order
“after the office of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu had initially
approved the purchase.”
Policy directives
US officials told The Jerusalem Post
that such transfers must be
consistent with a policy directive
revised by President Barack Obama in
January, which outlines the criteria
for conventional weapons sales.
The policy requires US transfers,
including Boeing aircraft, to take into
account “the risk that significant
change in the political or security
situation of the recipient country
could lead to inappropriate end-use”
of the weapons.
While the Nigerian report suggests
Abuja sought the purchase of Boeing
CH-47 Chinook helicopters, Israel
predominantly uses Sikorsky CH-53
aircraft for missions involving heavy-
lift transport. Both Boeing and
Sikorsky are American companies.
Israeli laws concerning the export of
arms is less restrictive than those in
the United States. Israel, however, is
a member of the United Nations
Register of Conventional Arms and, in
2009, reported to the body that
Israel, in practice, refrains from
transfers “where there is imminent
risk that arms might be internally
diverted, illegally proliferated and re-
transferred, or fall into the hands of
terrorists or entities and states that
support or sponsor them.”
Sixteen nations operate the Chinook
helicopter, none of which are in sub-
Saharan Africa.
Nigerian officials were reported as
saying that “we had even tried to
procure arms from Russia but this was
stalled because of the Ukrainian
crisis, thus compelling us to turn to
other nations like Israel. But even
this has been frustrated by the US.”
They further said it was not just in
the area of arms procurement that US
has been most unhelpful, adding that
contrary to its public stance that it
was assisting in the rescue operations
of the abducted Chibok secondary
school girls, it has done nothing
significant to help Nigeria in this
regard.
Other intelligence sources also cited
the fact that the US has refused to
share intelligence with Nigerian
security forces in a timely manner.

USA Just fighting to realize their prediction.
"come 2015 Nigeria may Go into disintegration"

I think ona dey see as America dey oppress us as world power! if I talk now them go say I be militant.