The federal government of Nigeria has turned to countries in the Eastern and Southern hemisphere, including Russia, Pakistan and Brazil, to acquire arms and military arsenal for the counter-terrorism operations in the northeastern part of the country following the arms embargo imposed on Nigeria by the United State of America.
The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, stated that despite the arms embargo, the United States had in recent times shown a willingness to assist in the country’s counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency efforts in the northeast.
“All I can tell you is that the US is supporting in the northeast, they are helping us with a lot of intelligence, so I don’t see any reason why we should have difficulties,” Abubakar said.
The Chief of Air Staff further said the United State arms embargo would not stop the countries Nigeria intends to buy the military hardware from, especially Brazil, from selling the A-29 Super Tucano fighter aircraft to it like America did with Israel in 2014.
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