“Jonathan Has Diverted Nigeria’s $1Billion Defence Loan To Fund 2015 Election Campaign” – Falana

Is Jonathan Using Nigeria's
$1Billion Defence Loan For 2015 Election
Campaign?
"GEJ Has Diverted Nigeria's $1Billion Defence
Loan To Fund 2015 Presidential Election
Campaign" – Falana
On Saturday Human Rights activist, Femi Falana
expressed fear that the 1 billion dollar external loan
Nigeria demanded to fight Boko Haram may have
been used towards 2015 elections.
Falana said the nation's military had been
incapacitated by massive corruption and internal
fraud within the system that saw trillions of naira
meant for procurement of arms freighted away for
lack of accountability.
He said, "The money that has been voted for defence
of our dear country in the last five years is N4tn. This
year alone, it is N968bn. The president has come
back for a loan of $1bn which is about N177bn added
to N968bn in one year. That is over a trillion naira. At
the end of the day, our soldiers are being sent to the
war front having no weapon to fight.
"As of yesterday, the $1bn has not been processed,
so if we are not careful the money is going to be
diverted to fund the forthcoming general elections."
Falana who has been hired as the defence lawyer for
some army officers standing trial for mutiny said the
officers told him, they have no weapons to fight Boko
Haram..
"As for the boys they accused of mutiny, when I
spoke with them, they said, 'oga, we are not guilty of
mutiny. We want to fight and die for this country, but
there is no equipment. They are asking us to face the
Boko Haram sect that has sophisticated weapons. We
are simply being asked to commit suicide and that is
why we say we have the right to life. We don't want
to die cheaply'," Fanala added.
Posted By David Aniemeka