The Federal Government has pleaded with the world powers to unwelcome baseless arguments that promote the denial of Nigeria gaining access to vital platforms and weapons to fight terrorism.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the appeal on Thursday during a forum with newsmen in Abuja as he said:

“I want to use this opportunity to say that the international community can help us better than they are doing right now. “To fight terrorists, we need platforms and weapons.

“When the international community is weighed by unsubstantiated arguments to deny the country of vital platforms and weapons to fight terrorism, you cannot turn round to accuse the country of not fighting terrorism,”

Lai Mohammed laid more emphasis on his claim as stated:

 “Certain world powers have refused to even sell to us certain vital weapons.”

 “For more than two to three years now, we have paid for certain vital weapons that they have not released to us and they even refused to give us spare parts.

“I think our appeal to them is that they should please help Nigeria and provide us with these sensitive platforms so that we can fight insecurity more effectively.”

The minister stated that for Nigerians to have a fair evaluation of the efforts of President  Muhammad Buhari’s administration in the fight against insecurity, they need to compare the place of Nigeria in the years before 2015 and that of today and added that it is better to appreciate the government’s efforts in the area of security, with the consideration that the issues of unrest, terrorism and mindless violence cut across the entire world.