President Muhammadu Buhari has painted a worrisome picture of the on-going war against Boko Haram , saying that there was not enough fire power to support ground troops to decimate the terrorists.
He spoke on Good Morning Nigeria, a programme of the Nigerian Television Authority, Monday, in Abuja.
He made the comment while failing to answer repeated questions on whether or not he was able to secure a commitment from the US to sell critical equipment to defeat the terrorists.
His words: ” The US has high technology, and of course the other developed countries like China.
“Our case is lack of capacity and effective Airforce.
“The Airforce is virtually non – existent. The fixed wings aircraft are not very serviceable. The helicopters are not serviceable and they are too few.
“We need Airforce to conduct reconnaissance and support the ground troops.
“The arrangement made by the former government will soon expire.
“We have made this clear to the Americans and we have made it clear to G7 and we need their cooperation. ”
President Buhari also vowed to retrieve proceeds of crude oil stolen by corrupt Nigerian leaders.
He said that crack teams of the Nigerian anti- graft agencies were already on the trail of such funds and that those involved would be prosecuted at the end of the investigations.
President Buhari, however, reduced the quantity of the alleged crude oil theft to 250, 000 barrels per day.
He had told Americans during his last week trip to Washington that 1 million barrels were been stolen daily.
He failed to answer repeated questions on whether he got any commitment from America to sell military equipment to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram.
He only lamented that there were not enough serviceable Airforce fighter jets and other military hardwares to quickly win the war against terror.
President Buhari also gave an insight into those to be appointed into his cabinet, saying that he would appoint only patriotic Nigerians who were knowledgeable professionals and technocrats who had not been compromised.
Nigeria is not your factory nor property. You are highly incompetent, unprepared and confused. You better resign before you pilot the disintegration of Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteI really pity people like you who danced and celebrated being abused and dehumanized by PDP.Shame some Nigerians can't tell good from bad,no wonder they treated you like fools and thank goodness sensible Nigerians rose up and voted the new government in
DeleteIt is clear now that BH boyz has more sophisticated weapons that the whole Nigerian government, the question is how do they get it and who supplied it to them?
ReplyDeleteHopefully Nigeria would be able to purchase few Apache Helicopters with gunships and both attack/surveillance drones for the Air Force for much needed and highly effective support whenever the ground force advance to attack
ReplyDeleteNigerian Army lamented of the same issue during GEJ administration and nobody listen to them rather they are prosecuting the armies that ran for their life. Before something was done and the NA perform very well towards the end of GEJ within 6 weeks against BH.
ReplyDeleteIf Nigerian Air-force is equip also, perhaps things will move faster that expected in combating BH