The United States has said that it refused to sell its Cobra helicopters to Nigeria due to concerns about the Nigeria’s military ability to use and maintain them.
The cobra attack helicopter is a combat aircraft used by the US marines with the ability to climb at the rate of 8.2meters per second. It is equipped with a 20 mm M197 3-barreled Gatling cannon in the A/A49E-7 turret (750 rounds ammo capacity).
But America stated that it had provided and approved sales of military equipment to Nigerian armed forces.
The US State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, stated this in Washington on Wednesday while responding to questions from journalists on the allegations made by the Nigerian ambassador to US, Prof. Adebowale Adefuye.
Adefuye had told members of the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday that the US refused to sell lethal arms to Nigeria, adding that America was not doing enough to assist in combating the Boko Haram insurgency in North-Eastern part of the country.
The ambassador said the US was letting down an old ally in its hour of need, and that Nigerians and the FG feel abandoned.
He said, “The U.S. government has up till today refused to grant Nigeria’s request to purchase lethal equipment that would have brought down the terrorists within a short time on the basis of the allegations that Nigeria’s defence forces have been violating human rights of Boko Haram suspects when captured or arrested.”
“We find it difficult to understand how and why, in spite of the U.S. presence in Nigeria, with their sophisticated military technology, Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly.”
Adefuye said that Washington had refused Nigeria’s requests to buy heavy weaponry because of allegations the defense forces have violated the human rights of Boko Haram suspects.
He said allegations of human rights abuses by the military were “rumors, hearsays and exaggerated accounts put about by rivals of President Goodluck Jonathan and rights groups.”
But Psaki in reaction to Adefuye’s allegations, claimed there had been “a great deal” of US aid to Nigeria.
She said there were ongoing concerns about the Nigerian military’s protection of civilians when conducting military operations, adding that these had been discussed with the Nigerian authorities.
http://www.punchng.com/politics/why-we-refused-to-sell-cobra-helicopters-to-nigeria-us/

Why can't we build our weapons?

If na this helicopter wey I dey see Naija dey find, hmmm then we don enter one chance.

Omo d helicopter ugly. Dis one go disfigure boko are rams. Make dem no go do mistake give shecow dis one abeg. Make naija kukuma rent am 4 3months wit US marines doing the job

my boy has one of these. but he won't sell it too....just like d Americans

do we really need them? after all even hunters with shoot and hide guns dey pursue boko boys

If it was back in the days i know i would have contributed something intelligent here, but this days i am just so concerned about my personal issues. Nigeria get government and people in charge of affairs let them worry about this, nor be my job

we no fit do our own weapon ?

Laffing in swahili 4 US

The liberal democrats are assh0les and Obama is a pathetic liar

After making payment for this aircraft, how is the ability of the buyer to maintain it suppose to be their headache.

Psylas:
Why can't we build our weapons?

His excellency is holding talk secretly with weapon manufacturing firms to come establish in Nigeria so as to boost our economy as well.

Kemzievictor:
Make naija kukuma rent am 4 3months wit US marines doing the job

very funny

phlemzy:
After making payment for this aircraft, how is the ability of the buyer to maintain it suppose to be their headache.

His excellency is holding talk secretly with weapon manufacturing firms to come establish in Nigeria so as to boost our economy as well.

Are you kidding me? Have you forgotten so soon about the Ikeja cantonment blasts due to bad maintaince of military equipments? Were we the ones that cleaned up the mess?
Shekawu's last message were he dubunked the a claimed ceasefire ended with him saying he stated fight with a knife and now he has ceased tanks belonging to the Nigerian military. Who knows what will happen if the US sells such weaponry to Nigeria and you here blabbing about how its not there business how Nigeria maintains its weaponry. SMH

Nna men!!! De helicopters look very scary oo. Chai!!! Messengers of Death.

That chopper looking like an apache, make sense. That's what nigerian air force needs, not those yeye old scul fighter jets wey be like scrap metal. A drone is even more effective than the planes the nigerian air force has. M sure the nigerian navy has no submarine, until they see there's an enemy threat at sea before they will start thinking of purchasing a sub. Planless entities

That's why I believe that in Biafra Africa died. If Biafra had lived Africa would have lived too in the sense that production and manufacturing of these elite war machineries would have been taken place in Africa. We allowed the West to kill Biafra and Africa died.

Time we invest heavily in Research and Production so that we can stop going begging the West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhKNtgj77Pw

Drone (UAV) Made By Nigerian Airforce

Psylas:
Why can't we build our weapons?

"If I’m voted into power, within the next four
years, the issue of power will become a thing of
the past. Four years is enough for anyone in
power to make a significant improvement and if
I can’t improve on power within this period, it
then means I cannot do anything”
President Goodluck Jonathan
31st January 2011
United Nations
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

u.s behaving like denrele since 2013

Damn we definitely need serious stuffs for this BH boiz and their goonz

usa= geg

US sees Nigerians as corrupt people so it can only be assumed by them that Fighter jets would eventually cause more harm than good to the country's citizenry. One shot from Super cobra could destroy an entire community if not handled meticulously.
We are talking about a country where the death of any civilian doesn't diminish the government, rather the government sees it as a normal thing unlike the US.
We're talking about a country where Militants (let me not mention names before they find me through my email) have artilleries bigger than that of an entire country - I went to supply goods to one of them recently and I wept for my country.
A country where the security level is so low that these jets could be hijacked by these Militants any time any day and used to haunt even the Original sellers. Leave o, US always have reasons for every action.

Who can deny that NA cares nothing about human right and rules of engagement? They would most likely turn the guns on helpless citizens.

see weapon

Psylas:
Why can't we build our weapons?

Yes we can, here's a sample

Kemzievictor:
Omo d helicopter ugly. Dis one go disfigure boko are rams. Make dem no go do mistake give shecow dis one abeg. Make naija kukuma rent am 4 3months wit US marines doing the job

Exactly. Even if we buy it, it should be flown by them. I don't trust our pilots. They may crash it.

Obama is so double faced that Americans are tired of him. US don't sell plz and continue to lose allies while China and Russia make new friends.

With the rate of illiterate aboki's in the Nigerian airforce... I'll advice they don't sell this jet fighter to Nigeria sef.. A drunk aboki might just shoot out a community one day

At least, the "progressives" among us will see the truth that America is playing games.