Thursday, 28 January 2016

The equipment Buhari is using to fight Boko Haram are the ones my administration bought- GEJ

In an interview with International news channel,
France24, Former President Goodluck Jonathan, said
that the current administration is still using the
equipment his administration bought while he was
in government.
“The new government is working hard and I
believe they are still using the equipment we
procured. The budget is still being debated,
no new equipment has been bought, so even
those equipment the president is using to
prosecute the war against Boko Haram are
those equipment we procured and I believe
that with what we left behind and the new
ones they will acquire, this issue of Boko
Haram will be taken to a logical conclusion.
When Boko Haram started in Nigeria, we
had no terror experience. Yes we had armed
robbery and other common crimes, but
terrorism was different because the people
involved were not afraid to die. So, you need
a different mechanism to confront terrorism,
you need superior technology, so that you
will be able to stop them even before the
attack. We never had the equipment, but
when we were confronted, we started
acquiring and before I left office we built
reasonable capacity and I believe with what
we left behind and also with what the new
government will acquire, they will be able to
prosecute this terror war to a reasonable
conclusion” he said
When asked to speak on the ongoing $2.1 billion
arms deal scandal, Jonathan said
"This issue always comes up but I always
insist that the matters are being investigated
and they are in our own courts and in Nigeria
where our issues are before the courts, you
don't make comments on it. It is considered
prejudice. But one thing you will also realize
is that for us to have conducted elections
across the country, all parts of the country,
that means that we prosecuted the war
against Boko Haram to a reasonable level.
Otherwise, we couldn't have been in position
to conduct elections across the country and
we couldn't have fought Boko Haram with
bare hands. This issues of corruption, issues
of misuse of funds, being investigated before
the courts and I wouldn't want to
compromise the position of our laws because
while I served as the President of Nigeria, I
made sure that the judiciary had their own
independence. I made sure that there is
maximum separation of powers between all
arms of government. So haven left office, I
don't think I will be the person that will say
things that will be detrimental to the judicial
processes" he said

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