Defence finances not for buying malls, inns – Shehu Sani

Former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, has criticised the alleged diversion of Nigeria’s defence funds towards the development of buying malls, inns, and universities by safety companies.

Talking on Politics At this time, aired stay on Channels Tv on Friday evening, Sani decried the misuse of army assets, insisting that each naira allotted to defence have to be spent strictly on combating insecurity if Nigeria really desires to win the combat towards terrorism and banditry.

He condemned the development of safety establishments constructing infrastructure unrelated to warfare whereas frontline personnel face shortages.

“Defence and safety funds ought to go for defence; cash meant for the Ministry of Defence and army shouldn’t be used to construct plazas, inns for the Nationwide Affiliation of Navy, and army wives. It’s for these on the battlefield to attain the specified outcomes. At this time, nearly all safety apparatuses have markets, plazas and buying malls. I even heard they’ve universities,” he lamented.

Sani burdened that such misallocation of funds undermines the nation’s combat towards insurgency, calling on the federal government to accentuate its efforts utilizing extra superior methods. He described terrorism as a world disaster that calls for sustained and practical efforts.

“It’s a identified incontrovertible fact that the Nigerian state as a rustic is confronted with a warfare towards banditry, which has been happening for a decade. It’s also a incontrovertible fact that what we’re preventing within the nation isn’t just about us towards the terrorists however the identical drawback is going through different nations like Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso.

“We now have talked an excessive amount of about insecurity, however what is required for us is to step up our motion as a result of our motion as a nation has not been in a position to eradicate the motion of terrorism within the nation. You can’t win the warfare towards terrorism in 24 hours,” he mentioned.