{"id":97650,"date":"2022-08-03T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=97650"},"modified":"2022-08-03T20:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:26:38","slug":"fg-admits-spending-n1-4bn-to-purchase-10-land-cruser-jeeps-for-govt-of-niger-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fg-admits-spending-n1-4bn-to-purchase-10-land-cruser-jeeps-for-govt-of-niger-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"FG admits spending N1.4bn to purchase 10 Land Cruser Jeeps for Govt of Niger Republic\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Federal Government has confirmed that it spent a whooping N1.4bn to purchase 10 Toyota Land Cruser V8 jeeps for the government of Niger Republic.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A Budget Office document dated July 22, 2022, and detailing how President Muhammadu Buhari approved the said sum has surfaced and cited by Pointblanknews.com.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Responding to the leaked document on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting, Nigeria&#8217;s Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed explained that providing intervention to the neighboring Niger Republic is not new and it is the prerogative of President Buhari who approved the purchase.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to her, President Buhari, whose actions she cannot question, has the right to make his own assessment of situations and give directives accordingly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She added that the financial support, which is primarily for the purpose of enhancing capacity to protect their territory, based on a request by the Nigerien Government, is also in the best interest of the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile, Buhari&#8217;s generosity comes at a time when the country and its citizens are battling with the worse economic situation in the nation&#8217;s history.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It would be recalled that in June 2021, President Buhari publicly justified his regime\u2019s decision to spend $1.9 billion on a rail project to the Niger Republic, saying he has family members there.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Buhari, while speaking during an exclusive interview broadcast on Arise TV explained that his regime\u2019s decision to build rail lines from Kano to the country was to allow his Nigerien relatives easily have access to Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI have cousins, family members, in Niger Republic. 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