{"id":80170,"date":"2021-04-30T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=80170"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:26:01","slug":"terrorists-fight-with-stolen-arms-from-nigeria-soldiers-ndume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/terrorists-fight-with-stolen-arms-from-nigeria-soldiers-ndume\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists fight with stolen arms from Nigeria Soldiers \u2013Ndume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has said most of the weapons used by terrorists in the country were stolen from men of the Nigerian security forces.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, stated this\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">on Thursday night<\/a>\u00a0while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018Politics Today\u2019 programme monitored by Pointblank News.He said, \u201cMost of the arms and ammunition they use are the ones they succeed in carting away from the Nigerian soldiers and other armed forces or security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know they have some small arms coming from up there like Libya, Chad, and all that but the bulk of the equipment they use are the ones they succeeded in stealing from our armed forces and this is what the armed forces are trying to guide against.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ndume also advocated more funding for the security forces to purchase superior weapons in order to effectively tackle the Boko Haram menace especially in the North-East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The Senator said smaller neighbouring countries like Chad, amongst others, spend more on equipping their soldiers than Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s give the Nigerian Army and armed forces what they need in order to end this insurgency and other forms of criminality within the shortest possible time. That way, you can call them in, give them timelines and if they don\u2019t do it, you can show them the way out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has said most of the weapons used by terrorists in the country were stolen from men of the Nigerian security forces.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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