Against the 3.3 billion naira recommended by the Finance ministry the committee recommended 7.7 billion naira. Senator Nuhu Aliyu, the then Senate Chairman committee on National Security confirmed this recently when he blamed the executive for its fiscal policy. General SVL Malu (rtd), former Chief of Army Staff, said 2001 before his compulsory retirement that the military is under-funded. According to him, ' our training institutions have not improved, the training aid with which we conduct the training to re-professionalise have not been provided.' He added that 'the situation in the barracks has not changed. And as a matter of fact it has even deteriorated. To that extent I will say we have not fared well.' 'We are hoping that this year (2001) things would be better than last year. As I have been saying we did not get anything done last year (2000) by the way of capital project and we thought these were the things we were supposed to do if we are going to improve on our well being to keep us busy in the act of professionalising,' he said. What Malu did not say is that the year 2000 allocation for the Nigerian Army got to him in December of the same year. He was asked to spend it that month or retire it back to the federation account. This is the tight corner they usually put them. This made it difficult for the Army to embark on any capital project. The Army in 2000 proposed 800million naira for rehabilitation of barracks, it was cut down to 200million, and the 200million did not reach the Army. It is not clear who withholds the money for that long between the Finance ministry and the Defence ministry.