President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday bemoaned the level of corruption that permeated the arms procurement process during the Goodluck Jonathan era. He said due process was hitherto followed in arms procurement until the last administration messed things up pretty badly.
Buhari was speaking as he played host to the British Secretary of State for Defence, Mr. Michael Fallon, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday.
“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.
Buhari called for increased assistance from Britain in Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram.
On his part, Mr. Fallon later told state house correspondents that 130 British personnel are currently training Nigerian soldiers on terrorism combat and that the number will increase to 300 in the next couple of months.
“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,” said Mr. Fallon after the meeting.
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