Nigeria's president has ordered an investigation into military hardware purchases under his two predecessors to try to root out corruption and fulfill his election promise of stopping Islamist group Boko Haram's insurgency, the presidency said on Monday.
President Muhammadu Buhari has told the National Security
Adviser (NSA) to set up a panel to look into defence procurement over
the past eight years, when the People's Democratic Party was in power,
his spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement.
The 13-member panel consists mainly of retired military
officers but also includes an executive from the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, Adesina said.
"The committee will specifically investigate allegations
of non-adherence to correct equipment procurement procedures and the
exclusion of relevant logistics branches from arms procurement under
past administrations," the statement said.
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