Reasons why Nigeria cancelled US military training - FG

The Federal Government of Nigeria said the reason why they cancelled the training of Nigerian soldiers by American security experts was largely due to logistic issues.
 

The co-ordinator of the National Information centre, Mr. Mike Omeri stated this during a routine briefing on the security situation in the country.

 

He said the conditions placed by the US government were not healthy for the security of lives and properties of its citizens.  Part of the conditions he said was the withdrawal of some military equipment from the battle field, so that the Americans can use them to train the Nigerian soldiers.  Mike Omeri said the Nigerian government will not unnecessarily expose its citizens or place them at the mercy of the insurgents just because it want its soldiers to be trained.

 

 

 He stated that Nigeria and America still have strong military relations.  And that the Nigerian soldiers had completed the first two phases of the training out of three.  According to him, the third phase had to do with logistical components which the Americans did not provide but were relying on the Nigeria military equipment which unfortunately were being use on the battle field.