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Germany is to provide Nigeria with three million
Euros for the procurement of surveillance
equipment, mobile medical care unit and other
support services for the country’s armed forces.

The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, announced
this on Sunday at joint news conference with the
German Defence Minister, Ursala Von dar Leyen, at
the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The Germany defence minister was in Abuja to hand
over some military equipment donated her country
to Nigeria. Dan-Ali said that the money would be
provided through the extension of the German
Technical Advisory Group Agreement for three years,
2017 to 2020. The minister said that under the
existing agreement between the two countries under
the group, 2012 to 2016, Germany had donated two
mobile care units with extensive care unit facilities to
the country. Also donated to the country by Germany,
according to Dan-Ali are Vallon metal detector/
Improvised Explosive Device and Explosive Ordnance
Disposal equipment, as well training of personnel
and maintenance of the device. He said Nigeria had
also received three Mobile Tactical Ground
Surveillance Radar systems from Germany for border
security in the North East. The minister thanked
Germany for the assistance it had extended to the
Nigerian armed forces so far toenhance their
capacity to fight the Boko Haram terrorists.


“As we are all aware, terrorism is a threat to the
existence of humanity and its development. We must,
therefore, continue to stand resolute and united in
our fight to stamp terrorism out of the planet,’’ Dan-
Ali said. In her remark, the German defence minister,
who handed over the equipment to Dan-Ali, noted
that combating terrorism was both “difficult and
dangerous. "Everywhere, the terrorists live bloody
trail of destruction and death and time and again,
they single out the most vulnerable of their targets
like children just like the Boko Haram does in
Nigeria. “This is why it is in our common interest that
the population at home in my country, as well as
here in Nigeria is safe so that the economy can grow
again.

“Because that is the basis for jobs and prosperity so
people can believe in the future in their homeland,’’
Leyen said. According to her, terrorists abuse
religion for their own evil purposes. Terrorists
spread terror and violence all over the world, in
France, Belgium, Aghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Germany
and here in Nigeria.Leyen said that the objective of
thecooperation between her country and Nigeria was
to assist the country to “conduct crisis prevention,
crisis management and peace building operations.’’
“To compliment this, Germany is focusing on
practical, very concrete issues – the capability and
equipment the Nigerian servicemen need most
urgently such as the protection against the many
IEDs place by the Boko Haram". She noted that
Nigeria was fighting a hard but most important fight,
assuring the support of her country.