Buratai calls for more budgetary allocation to the Nigerian Army

The Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has called for more funding to enable the Army to acquire necessary platforms to conclude the war against Boko Haram terrorism and other myriads of security threats facing the country.

The Army boss made the call during the Nigerian Army budget performance appraisal for the 2019 and the Army budget defence for the year 2020 on Thursday.

He called on the National Assembly to prevail on the Ministry of Budget and National Planning to review the budget of the military.

Gen Buratai based his submission on the on-going structural changes, volatile security environment and massive engagement of troops in virtually all the 36 states of the federation.

This, he said, was because his outfit was allotted N232.4 billion as against N472.8 billion requested from the national planning ministry in the 2019 budget.

Buratai explained that for the 2019 budget, N350.5 billion would be expended on Nigerian Army Personnel Emolument, N43.6 billion for Army Overhead Budget, and N78.5 billion for Nigerian Army Capital Budget.

Meanwhile, the National Assembly has applauded the commitment and achievements of the Nigerian Army under the leadership of Lt. General Yusuf Tukur Buratai the Nigeria Chief of Army Staff.

The Chairmen of the two committees in the National Assembly on the Army, Senator Ali Ndume and Hon Abdulrazak Sa’ad Namdas promised to support the Army to secure more funding to acquire the necessary platforms required to tackle the nation’s security threats such as the Boko Haram insurgency.