The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, has said Nigeria would not continue to rely on other countries for military hardware to prosecute the war against Boko Haram, bandits and other criminals.
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He said the country must find ways to locally produce military hardware to prosecute the war against terrorists and other criminal elements in the country.
Badaru said this on Tuesday, November 21, when he received the Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, and the Managing Director of Ajaokuta Steel Company, Sumaila Abdul Akaba, in his office in Abuja.
The Minister said President Bola Tinubu is committed to the revitalization and repositioning of Ajaokuta Steel Company to be capable of producing military hardware to support the fight against terrorists and other criminals in the country.
He said Ajaokuta Steel Company was known for the local production of military hardware, adding that there was the need to partner with the Ministry of Steel Development for the production of Military hardware.
The minister said that strengthening the company to produce military hardware instead of relying on foreign production would boost the nation’s fight against insurgency and other related crimes.
He said: “Local production of Military Hardware is critical because the crisis we have in the country at present will not allow us to rely on other countries for Military hardware.”
The Minister directed that a Technical Committee be set up to determine what to produce, the raw materials to use, cost of reviving the production centre as well as to determine sources of funding.
He urged the Permanent Secretary, Director-General of Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), and the Managing- Director of Ajaokuta Steel Company as members of the Technical Committee to work vigorously and ambitiously and come up with a report on the way forward in two weeks’ time.
In his remark, the Minister of Steel Development said reviving Ajaokuta Steel would be a game changer to Nigerian Industry and the economy as a whole.
He said that due to paucity of funds, production was stalled, but I believe that if initiatives are put in place, Ajaokuta Steel will be revived and work will resume within the first four years of the Present Bola Tinubu’s administration.”
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