Buhari Arms Money Not Missing, NSA Backtracks Allegations

The National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtrd) has denied media reports that quoted him as saying that arms money provided by the Muhammadu Buhari administration got missing under the former service chiefs.

He said that he was quoted out of context in the interview he had with the BBC Hausa Service.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG had reported the NSA as telling the BBC that the new service chiefs did not meet the arms that were supposed to have been procured with money provided by the government to the immediate past service chiefs.

He had been quoted as saying thus:

“The president has done his own part and allocated huge amount of money to purchase weapons but they are yet to be here. We don’t know where they are. I am not saying that the past Service Chiefs have diverted the money, but presently we don’t know where the money is,” he had said.

But asserting that the NSA was quoted out of context, the Office of the NSA in a statement said that arms money provided by the Buhari administration was not missing.

“The attention of the Office of the National Security Adviser has been drawn to some media reports regarding Armed Forces equipment during an interview with the BBC Hausa service.

“We would like to state that the NSA was quoted out of context as he did not categorically say that funds meant for arms procurement were missing under the Former Service Chiefs as reported or transcribed by some media outlets from the BBC interview.

“During the interview, the National Security Adviser only reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to deal decisively with insecurity and stated President Muhammadu Buhari’s continued commitment to provide all necessary support to the Armed Forces, including the provision of arms and equipment.

“In the interview the National Security Adviser clearly informed the BBC reporter that Mr President has provided enormous resources for arms procurement, but the orders were either inadequate or yet to be delivered and that did not imply that the funds were misappropriated under the former Service Chiefs.

“The NSA also informed the reporter that, Mr President is following up on the procurement process as is usual with contracts relating to military equipments, in most cases the process involves manufacturing, due diligence and tedious negotiations that may change delivery dates.”

“All Security and Intelligence agencies are working together to bring an end to insecurity with the full support of Mr. President and Stakeholders including the media and civil society as part of a whole-of-government and a whole-of-society approach to address our security challenges.”

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