Nigeria's Military Chiefs Got N238bn For Weapons, Others In Two Years Despite Rising Insecurity In Country | Sahara Reporters Within the same period, the spate of the Boko Haram insurgency, banditry and violence... HQNigerianArmy DefenceInfoNG READ MORE:
The Ministry of Defence together with the Defence Headquarters, the army, navy and air force got over N238bn in 2018 and 2019 to fight insecurity and implement their programmes and operations, according to reports from the Budget Office of the Federation.
The report stated that the Defence Ministry, the DHQ and the three arms of the military budgeted over N316bn for its operations and programmes in the two years. This casualty figure was gathered from the official armed forces’ releases, while military sources believe that the casualty figure would be in hundreds.
Meanwhile, for the 2019 report, the government allocated a total of N159bn for the military’s capital projects and programmes; it later released N106.84bn.
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