The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused critics of the approval of the release of one billion dollars from the Excess Crude Account to fight Boko Haram of “unnecessary, uninformed and highly-partisan criticism”, adding that they “do not know that fighting an asymmetric war is costlier than fighting a conventional war. In any case, wars, especially the war against terror, are never fought with budgetary provisions.”
Justifying the amount, the minister disclosed that counter-terror fighter jets consumed 64,021.08 litres of fuel per day amounting to N15.153m daily, adding that N20.19 million was spent on spare parts for the jets between January and November........

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