President Muhammadu Buhari, in an interview he granted the
Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation has accused the past
administration led by Goodluck Jonathan of provoking soldiers to go into mutiny
for sending them to battlefields without arms and ammunition.
The President
said: “We investigated and discovered how funds that were
pencilled down for arms procurement were diverted and shared by government
officials who served the last administration.
“The government at that time sent the soldiers to the
battlefield without arms and ammunition to prosecute the war. That was what led
some of them to mutiny. They were arrested and detained because of this.”
Speaking on the December deadline given to the Nigerian Army
to win the war against Boko Haram, Buhari said;
“If people are going to be fair to us, they themselves know
that the Army is winning the war. You can no longer find any huge number of
Boko Haram members in Adamawa and Yobe; only may be, in about three local
governments of Borno in the area around our borders with Chad Republic. They
are no longer in position to threaten the country, so we have won,” he added.
He also spoke about the arrest and ongoing prosecution of
arms scandal suspects. Buhari said the government would use documents that were
already in its possession to prove to the courts that the suspects stole and their
ill-gotten wealth would be confiscated and they would be jailed.
