The Army has declared that Nigeria soldiers cannot march the prowess of Boko Haram.
This was disclosed by Chief of Accounts and Budget (Army), Maj.-Gen. Abdullahi Muraina, at a training programme for the Nigerian Army Finance Corps Warrant Officers and Senior Non-Commissioned officers in Jaji, Kaduna.
Muraina said, “Currently, budgetary allocation for the military is inadequate to meet the contemporary security challenges and also cater for the welfare of the Nigerian Army.”
“Apart from limitations of the envelope system, the Nigerian Army is enmeshed in the bureaucratic bottlenecks for funding approvals for military operations,” he added.
Also at the same event, a statement read on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen. Kenneth Minimah by the GOC 1 Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Osuji, noted with regrets that there had been an increase in the wave of socio-political and ethno-religious crises threatening the nation’s security.
Naijalog recalls that earlier in the year, the Borno State governor, Shetimma had raised an alarm that the military is ill-equipped to curtail the insurgency in the North East.