The All Progressive Congress has chastised the Federal Government that it needs new imaginative and sound thinking in its fight against the Boko Haram insurgency and not more money. APC’s reaction comes after the Federal Government requests for the approval of the National Assembly, for it to collect a $1bn loan.
APC via its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja insist that if the Government continued with their old ways of tackling the insurgency, there wouldn’t be any materialistic result.
The statement partly read,
“Between 2010 and 2014, a total of $14bn has been allocated for defence, security and the police. This year alone, the total sum is $14bn. Now, if $14bn has not clipped the wings of Boko Haram in five years, what difference can $1bn make if thrown into the crisis in the same old way?
“If the Federal Government has not accounted for how it spent $14bn allocated to the security, defence and police in the past five years, why should it be given the green light to borrow another $1bn? If the said $14bn has not done much in upgrading military and security facilities in five years, what impact can $1bn suddenly make? These are some of the questions we want the National Assembly to ask before giving the Federal Government the go ahead to plunge Nigeria into another round of external debts.
“Talking of new and imaginative thinking, it is generally agreed that the root causes of the Boko Haram crisis are deep in the years of bad governance that have created an army of unemployed youth in the North-East, which is the epicentre of
the crisis.”
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