<font size="5"><center>Nigeria turns to China </font size>
<font size="4">for military aid to put down delta insurgency </font size></center>
DEBKAFile
February 28, 2006, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nigeria’s vice-president Atiku Abubakar claimed the US is too slow to supply the military hardware for protecting the country’s oil assets against rebel attacks which have cut production by one-fifth.
Military analysts say Nigeria needs 200 boats needed to guard the Niger Delta from attacks on oil facilities and abductions of foreign oil workers. They would secure the swamps and creeks from which the rebels mount attacks and where they find sanctuary. The US government has offered technical assistance and training and provided four old coastal patrol boats, but is reluctant to meet demand charging a high level of corruption in the Nigerian security forces and human rights abuses.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=1992
<font size="4">for military aid to put down delta insurgency </font size></center>
DEBKAFile
February 28, 2006, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nigeria’s vice-president Atiku Abubakar claimed the US is too slow to supply the military hardware for protecting the country’s oil assets against rebel attacks which have cut production by one-fifth.
Military analysts say Nigeria needs 200 boats needed to guard the Niger Delta from attacks on oil facilities and abductions of foreign oil workers. They would secure the swamps and creeks from which the rebels mount attacks and where they find sanctuary. The US government has offered technical assistance and training and provided four old coastal patrol boats, but is reluctant to meet demand charging a high level of corruption in the Nigerian security forces and human rights abuses.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=1992
