General Muhammadu Buhari, Former Head of a military junta,
and leading presidential hopeful of All Progressive Congress (APC) has kicked
against moves by President Goodluck Jonathan to borrow $1 billion Dollars to prosecute
insurgents in the north east.
General Buhari said, ‘for 30 months as we fought civil war
from here to the East, and Nigeria never borrow a dime, and dont forget that
Nigeria won the war that continue to keep us as a single entity’
Buhari position was made in Kano shortly after he commiserate
with victims of last Friday multiple blast at Kano central mosque said there
was “no basis or cogent reason as to why Nigeria must borrow money to fight the
Insurgency.
General Buhari stated that the revenue accrued to the
country when there was stability in oil market was enough to purchase military
hardware to curtail the security challenges.
The civil war hero noted that the lack of political will on
the part of the siting government, high level corruption and looting of
national treasury are factors working against the war on terror.
General Buhari lamented the botch efforts by the National
Assembly to conduct a public hearing on the matter, pointing out that from
indications the “important national issue has once more been swept under the
carpet.”
He expressed regret that despite open complaint by the on
several occasion the Military prosecuting the war of lack of sophisticated
weapons, stressed that nothing significant has been done to address the
challenge.
The veteran presidential aspirant disclosed “my worry and
concern is that from 1999 to date Nigeria has gotten huge foreign earnings in
Dollars and yet no one can say where are these money, Nigeria before now was
having its National carrier, with hundreds of shipping Cargos, but today we are
practically zero and no one can tell what happened, and now somebody want to
put the nation in another trouble by borrowing, the move is totally
unacceptable to us’.
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