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Jonathan’s officials introduced corruption to arms purchase – Buhari
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President Muhammadu Buhari
Olalekan Adetayo

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday regretted that the procurement of equipment for the nation’s Armed Forces, which hitherto had followed due process under successive governments, got stuck in the mucky water of corruption under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

He, however, said his administration was taking urgent and appropriate actions to restore sanity, due process and probity to the arms procurement processes.

Buhari said this while receiving the British Secretary of State for Defence, Mr. Michael Fallon, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

“They (officials of the last administration) just put foreign exchange in a briefcase and travelled to procure equipment for the military. That is why we have found ourselves in the crisis we are now facing,” a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, quoted the President as saying at the meeting held behind closed-door.

Welcoming the offer by the British Government to assist Nigeria in defence equipment procurement, intelligence gathering and training, Buhari restated his conviction that the international community must collaborate more and work with greater unity of purpose to overcome global terrorism.

The President added, “Terrorism has become very sophisticated. If developed nations can be attacked, and hundreds of lives lost, how much more developing countries?

“In the West African sub-region, Nigeria is the main battleground of the Boko Haram insurgency. We have made a lot of progress against the terrorists, but we will welcome more assistance from our friends and the international community.”

Fallon told the President that he was in the country to see what more Britain could do to support Nigeria in battling terrorism and violent extremism.

“Groups like Boko Haram don’t believe in democracy and freedom of choice; so it’s a common fight for us all,” he told Buhari.

Fallon later told State House correspondents that about 130 British military personnel were currently helping to train Nigerian soldiers.

He said by 2016, the British government was ready to send more than 300 personnel to train Nigerian soldiers.

“For this year, for example, we have about 130 military personnel here helping to train the Nigerian Army.

“Next year, more than double, more than 300 are coming to offer training and particularly to improve the Army’s resilience to IEDs, obviously that had been left behind by Boko Haram,” he said.

Fallon added that his government wanted to do more to help the nation stabilise affected areas once the terrorists had been driven out.

The secretary of state stated that the process would not involve sustaining the victims with not only rehabilitation but economic development.

He added that security would be provided for victims to go back to their villages, with the knowledge that they needed to be protected and the infrastructure at their hometowns to be repaired.  

“We discussed what we can do to help Nigeria to deal with this country’s insurgency. Britain and Nigeria have democracy, they are free people.

“Boko Haram and its way of life need to be defeated. So we have been discussing today what probably we can do to step up Nigeria in the area of full training on how to deal with improvised explosive devices and what can be done to improve the intelligence you need to deal with terrorism,” he added.

The Minister of Defence, Mr. Monsur Dan-Ali, told reporters that the issue of IEDs was the most difficult area of the insurgency.

Dan-Ali disagreed with the submission that it seemed terrorism had come to stay, saying it would take time to completely end insurgency.

Efforts made to get the reaction of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, on how government officials compromised arms purchase under Jonathan, were not successful.

Calls made to his telephone did not connect while he also failed to respond to a text message sent to his mobile telephone line.
from PUNCH.

If this Buhari man were to have been a baby, I would have flogged him endlessly, sounds like someone who is always grumpy and complaining very infectious the type that should be avoided (48 laws of power, law 10).

The past administration didn't purchase arms, and you can only charge Dasuki and co. to court for 13.57billion naira out of 2.1billion dollars or over 400billion naira?

you mean the same money you benefited from ?





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Why are. They generalizing the arms deal saga n captioning it GEJ.... Instead of bubu 2 work 4 his own name he's here tarnishing GEJ's image ... I want court 2 grant Dasuki his request 4 open trial let's c all those involved... Hit lik. If. U want Dasuki in. Open trial and share if u want close door trial

Buhari forgot to tell the world that before GEJ no previous administration had urgent need to buy arms.

demarc001:
Buhari forgot to tell the world that before GEJ no previous administration had urgent need to buy arms.

and when the past administration decided to buy......a Dasuki was created.