The same thing happened during the Civil War. The Americas refused to sell arms to us. I wanted them to help me with some modest aircraft so that I could chase out Ojukwu’s B52 or B56 as they called it. That was all I wanted; not to shoot it down but to chase it away so that it does not drop bombs and kill innocent people.
But the Americans refused to help us and they even refused to sell arms and ammunitions and the spare parts of the equipment that we got from them. And at the same time, the Americans were shipping aircraft and loads of arms and ammunition to Zaire. What sort of friends are they?
You call them your friends and they say that they are helping us to fight terror. We don’t want Americans to come and fight the war against Boko Haram for us but, at least, we need the equipment.
During my time, I had to go to the Russians to get the equipment we wanted in order to prosecute that war. If they cannot help us, they should allow us to go elsewhere and get what we want to ensure that we deal with this particular problem.
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