President Muhammadu Buhari has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of provoking soldiers into mutiny following its neglect of the armed forces during the war against insurgency.
Buhari noted that his administration sent soldiers into the war front without appropriate arms and ammunition.
While speaking with BBC Hausa Service, Buhari said “We investigated and discovered how funds that were penciled 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.”
The President added that it is clear that the army is winning the war against Boko Haram. He 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 also said that out of the nation’s N2.2tn debt, his administration inherited N1.5tn domestic debt while foreign debt accounted for N0.7tn.
He restated his position that Nigeria is rich but corruption has been the bane of development in the country.