President Buhari says those who are found guilty in the $2.1 billion
arms deal fraud will be sent to jail. He said this in a recent interview
with BBC Hausa
“Remember during the campaigns, we said Nigeria is facing three things
and nobody disputed that assertion. Firstly, there was widespread
insecurity, a war in the north-east, while the country’s oil was being
stolen at random in the south; secondly, there is massive unemployment.
Thirdly, bribery and corruption was basically
suffocating the country. If we don’t kill these monsters, this country
would go down. That is why those who stole monies meant for arms
procurement and shared it among themselves are being arrested and are
being shown documents so that they would be asked to refund the money or
face prosecution. We would use those documents to prove what they
stole, collect all the assets acquired from the proceeds and then jail
them”he said
Buhari also spoke on the mutiny of soldiers during the last administration
“I want people to understand that after I settled down and got a good
grasp of what the country was going through, we removed all the service
chiefs and appointed new ones. We also undertook an investigation and
found out how the monies meant for arms procurement were diverted and
shared by officials in the last administration. They sent the boys to
the warfront without arms and ammunition, leading some of them to mutiny
after which they were arrested and detained. We have been able to raise
money and fund the war. Go and ask the people of Borno, Yobe and
Adamawa, how many of their local governments were under the control of
insurgents? And how many are currently still under the insurgents. Maybe
we would not win the war completely by the end of the month, but the
insurgents have now resorted to putting on explosive vests on young
children, mostly girls aged 15 and below and then sending them to
markets, mosques and churches to detonate. Boko Haram itself knows that
the era of them taking over communities and local governments is over.
If people would be fair to us, they would know that the Nigerian Army
has basically met the deadline and are winning the war. You cannot find
any significant number of Boko Haram members in Adamawa and Yobe, only
maybe in about three local governments of Borno, in the area around our
borders with Chad Republic. They are not in a position to threaten
Nigeria now, so we have won”he said
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