The City Reporters
American President Barack Obama
High ranking military and administrative Nigerian officials have accused the Barack Obama led American government of sabotaging its war on terror by indirectly helping Boko Haram insurgents.
The officials, Wednesday, said the U.S. government has blocked orders placed by Nigeria for arms and ammunition, thereby frustrating the country’s effort to defeat the extremist Boko Haram sect, Abuja-based Premium Times reports.
According to the report, the officials, whose identities were not published, said the government opted for a secret purchase of $9.3 million worth of arms with cash as a desperate measure after the American government blocked all legitimate arms order made by the military.
An official said: “We are convinced that the U.S. is playing out a script. They are desperate to demystify Nigeria’s armed forces and make it incapable of defeating Boko Haram.
“And they have an international network to frustrate our effort to get arms from alternative sources.
“It is even possible that they were the ones who tipped off the South Africans on this failed deal. They want their prediction that Nigeria will collapse to come true.”
Another official reportedly accused the American government of practicing blatant hypocrisy by claiming to help Nigeria in the open yet secretly doing everything within its power to undermine the country.
“America has kept posturing to the world that they are helping us to fight Boko Haram but that is far from the truth,” the officials reportedly said.
“We have money to buy all the arms we need but the U.S. has continued to stand in our way.
“They won’t let us buy arms and they are also discouraging other countries from selling to us.
“They are saying we stand accused of human rights abuses by human rights group and that we won’t be allowed to get arms.”
“Just recently we placed orders for tanks and jet fighters and it was ready to be delivered.
“Suddenly the Americans again came in the way. So we were left with no choice than to explore ways to get arms in the best interest of our country and its people.”
The Nigerian government had on Tuesday admitted that it owned the $9.3million cash smuggled into South Africa aboard a private jet and seized by the authorities of that country.
The administration also confessed that it was trying to use the money to buy arms and that it had already opened talks with the South African authorities to end the diplomatic row that trailed the matter.
