THE Ceasefire Campaign on Friday said the government’s planned R29-billion arms purchases will draw scarce resources away from the social sector, while the much-vaunted counter-trade benefits are largely fictional. The campaign’s Rob Thomson said the government has not explained how it calculates the R110-billion figure it has been throwing around. Pointing out that an Economic Policy Research Institute paper puts the real figure at only R26-billion, he said the R110-billion figure was reached through “playing with numbers”.