Some security experts and a civil society organisation have said the N4.85 trillion spent by the Buhari administration was gulped by corruption allegedly perpetrated by the ‘corrupt service chiefs’ and other officers.
According to unverifiable reports, the Federal Government has provided N4.85trillion to the Armed Forces in the last eight years through its yearly budgetary allocations. The budgetary allocations it made to the Army, Navy, and Air Force were mainly to cater for personnel and overheads, as well as recurrent and fixed expenditures.
Documents from the Budget Office of the Federation showed that the Nigerian Army received N3 trillion between 2015 and 2022, while the Nigerian Navy got N889 billion from the Federation Account in the same period.
Expressing their frustration that such an outrageous sum has not been able to deal decisively with the problem, they asked the Government to audit the security budget for the past seven years.
A renowned security expert, Jackson Lekan-Ojo, said the Service Chiefs should explain to Nigerians where all these monies dispensed in the last seven years have gone. Another security consultant, Yemi Adeyemi said the serving Security Chiefs should be called to answer how the monies were dispensed.
