Media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has said that no funds released for arms were mismanaged by former military chiefs.
He was reacting to the claims made by retired Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno, the National Security Adviser, who said in a BBC interview that there was no evidence of the huge funds voted for arms procurement under the past service chiefs.
Garba Shehu in his clarifications said All Progressives Congress (APC) was not the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under which arms procurement funds found their way into private pockets.
He said about $1billion taken from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) with the consent of Governors and used for military procurements, was used for the purpose for which it was got.
Shehu said the NSA made two critical points that the country did not have enough weapons and that the two procurements made had not been fully delivered.
“At no point did the NSA say that money has been misappropriated and that no arms is seen. They have not been delivered, that is correct; these are things you don’t get off the shelves,” Shehu noted.
He accused those peddling the story of ‘being political’.
“They want to draw moral equivalent between the PDP and the APC administrations – we are not the same, things like this cannot happen under a Buhari administration”, Shehu said.
