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General Muhammadu Buhari purchased more arms for Nigeria armed forces as Head of State than President Goodluck Jonathan bought in 5 years despite spending more on paper, elombah.coh has been told.
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday challenged his principal opponent, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major General Muhammadu Buahri (rtd) to explain to Nigerians how he spent his Defence budget while he served as the nation’s Head of State.
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At the commencement of the presidential campaign in Lagos, Jonathan announced “He did not buy a single rifle”, referring to Gen Buhari while he served as a military Head State, lamenting that Nigeria “had great soldiers but who had no arms”.
President Jonathan who was addressing a crowd of party supporters at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos noted that the fight against terrorism is dragging on because of lack of equipment owing to the fact that previous governments including that of Gen Buhari failed to equip the Nigerian soldiers.
Chiding Buhari who said he will fight insecurity, Jonathan said: “Ask him, when he was the head of government, did he buy one rifle for the Nigerian military? They refused to equip the military. Ask them what they did with their defence budget that they did not equip the military.
But speaking to Elombah.com this morning, a political analyst said General Buhari 2 years in government got more arms than Jonathan’s first 5 years as president despite the trillions he spent on that.
Richard Mayungbe said: “The Total military hardware purchases by Jonathan’s government from 2009-2013 stand at $349m. This is for 5 years as against GMB’s total of $940m in less than 2 years in office. The question that now arises is where is all the rest of over a trillion naira President Jonathan budgeted and spent on security and defence go?
Responding to Elombah.com report on the matter on Facebook, Mr Mayungbe refered us to a report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute which detailed Nigeria arms purchases during the periods under review.
On the website of the Peace Ibstitute, an Elombah.com researcher got below:
SIPRI Arms Transfers Database – Methodology
IV of arms exports to Nigeria, 1984-1986
Generated: 09 January 2015
Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) expressed in US$ m. at constant (1990) prices.
Figures may not add up due to the conventions of rounding.
A ‘0’ indicates that the value of deliveries is less than US$0.5m
For more information, see http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/background
EXPLANATION OF THE TRADE REGISTERS
Trade Registers are written outputs that contain information on deals between specific arms suppliers and recipients over a specific time period that are included in the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database. A deal is only included in a Trade Register if reliable information has been verified that an order has been placed or deliveries have begun.
You can also choose whether to include all deals or only those involving certain types of weapon system, and whether the Trade Register is laid out according to supplier(s) or recipient(s).
In a Trade Register, deals are divided between, on the one hand, those that involve the physical transfer of military equipment and, on the other, those that involve the transfer of technology or provision of a licence, allowing the goods to be produced or assembled by the recipient.
For all deals, the following information is provided:
Number ordered—the number of items ordered under the deal
Weapon designation—the designation of the weapon system concerned
Weapon description—description of the weapon system concerned
Year of order/licence—the year the order was placed or, in the case of licensed production, the licence was issued
Year(s) of deliveries—the year or years during which deliveries took place. If no deliveries have yet been made, this field is left blank.
Number delivered/produced—the number of items delivered or produced under the deal
Comments—any additional information that is known about the deal. This can include the financial value of the deal, what the weapons will ostensibly be used for, whether the weapons are being donated as military aid, and any information on offsets linked to the deal.
Information concerning the year of order, year(s) of deliveries and number delivered/produced figures are in brackets if the accuracy of the data is uncertain.
In cases where a delivery has been identified but either the supplier or the recipient cannot be identified with certainty, transfers are registered as coming from ‘unknown’ suppliers or going to ‘unknown’ recipients. Where a deal involves weapon systems that are to be produced by two or more countries in cooperation, and if it is not clear which country will make the final delivery, the supplier is listed as ‘multiple’. Where possible, the comment field in the registers will identify the most likely suppliers or recipients.
