NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT GOODLUCK WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACQUIRE WEAPONS AGAIN:

NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT GOODLUCK WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACQUIRE WEAPONS AGAIN:                 

New weapons purchased by the

Nigerian government for use in the

fight against boko Haram terrorist group

is reportedly stuck in Pakistan, as

Saudi Arabia has refused to grant

over-flight permits to cargo planes

carrying the weapons.

Nigeria’s effort at ending the Boko

Haram insurgency has ran into

another hitch with the refusal by the

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to grant

over-flight permits to cargo planes

conveying military equipment and

armoured tanks procured by the

Nigerian government from

Pakistan.

THISDAY gathered authoritatively

from intelligence sources that the

decision by the Saudi authorities is

certain to cause a diplomatic row at

a time the Jonathan administration

is eager to end the insurgency in

the North-east before the 2015

general election.

President Goodluck Jonathan is

seeking re-election in less than two

months time and had given the

green light to the military

authorities to procure arms from

alternative sources such as

Pakistan and Russia other than

Nigeria’s traditional allies led by

the United States of America, United

Kingdom and France.

The decision, THISDAY gathered,

was premised on Nigeria’s

displeasure with the US after the

country blocked the sale of

American-manufactured Cobra

attack helicopters from Israel. With

the position of the West, Nigeria

decided to turn to the East, chiefly

Pakistan, from which the federal

government was able to procure a

huge cache of military hardware

needed to prosecute the war

against Boko Haram.

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SOURCE: #ThisDay

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