The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has warned the National Assembly to halt any plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over the withdrawal of $ 462 million for
the purchase of fighter jets from the United States, US.
«The matter did not even come up for discussion during the talks [with the Pakistani government],» Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Defence Secretary, told The Hindu, adding that his government was still considering
the purchase of fighter jets.
Not exact matches
Canada announced earlier this month that it would scrap a $ 5.2 billion
purchase of new
fighter jets from Boeing and
purchase Australian
jets instead.
Once again this afternoon the New Democrats wondered when the government would hold an open competition to
purchase a new
fighter jet and, once again, it was Rona Ambrose's duty to stand and attempt to fashion an assurance
of some kind.
'' It is also clear, as has been shown so far by the outcome
of the panel probing past arms deals, that the
purchase of substandard weapons apparently resulted from the massive corruption that enveloped the deals, the kind
of horrifying graft that saw the
purchase of refurbished choppers that lacked rotors, or
fighter jets that could not be deployed to the theatre
of war because they were not up to par.
Presidency source said Buhari used the avenue to explain why he gave approval for
purchase of $ 496million worth
fighter jets without budgetary allocation.
President Buhari was said to have arbitrarily approved the sum
of $ 496 million for the
purchase of Super Tucano
fighter jets for the Nigerian Military without consent
of the National Assembly.
The F - 35 was billed as a
fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired but has turned out to be one
of the greatest boondoggles in recent military
purchasing history
The company found itself in an awkward position this week after Bloomberg reported that Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg had listened in on a phone call last month between [teh Donald] and the Air Force general managing
purchases of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F - 35
fighter jets.