Give Us Arms To Fight Insurgents, FG Tells International Community

By Emmanuel Awosika

The Federal Government has called on members of the international community to support its anti-terrorism efforts by supplying it with needed weapons.

Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the appeal while on the News Agency of Nigeria forum in Abuja. According to him, the country could not fight terrorists if it lacked the vital platforms and weaponry.

“I want to use this opportunity to say that the international community can help us better than they are doing right now.

“To fight terrorists we need platforms and weapons.

“When the international community is weighed by unsubstantiated arguments to deny the country of vital platforms and weapons to fight insecurity, you cannot turn round to accuse the country of not fighting terrorism,” he said.

The minister went on further go say that some world powers have refused to sell vital weapons to the country.

He said, “For more than two to three years now, we have paid for certain vital weapons that they have not released to us and they even refused to give us spare parts.

“I think our appeal to them is that they should please help Nigeria to provide us with these sensitive platforms so that we can fight insecurity more effectively.”

Lai Mohammed indicated that the Federal Government had made significant strides in the war against terrorism, asking Nigerians to compare the situation of the country before 2015 and the present.

“People should recognise the fact that today, people have weaponised the issues of religion and ethnicity

“We are dealing with extremely unreasonable people, whether in the northwest or in the northeast.

“They should not forget that we are fighting non-conventional war and at the same time, these people have contacts everywhere,” he added.

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