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| Lt. Gen. Buratai |
The Nigerian Army has condemned what it
referred as a campaign of calumny by some vested interests against the
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, over
alleged corruption and fraudulent deals.
The Director of Army Public Relations
(DAPR), Col. Sani Abubakar, in a statement on Saturday, described the
reports by some online media as untrue and a calculated attempt to
tarnish the image of the Army Chief.
Usman drew the attention of the members
of the public to the fact that the information being peddled against
Buratai is fraught with half truths and outright lies, carefully crafted
in a way to paint the COAS in bade shade.
He stated: “The attention of the
Nigerian Army has been drawn to another round of campaign of calumny
against the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai
and his family by some unscrupulous elements as contained in Sahara
Reporters story titled “Revealed: Buhari’s Chief Of Army Staff, General
Buratai, Wives Own Dubai Property”, alleging that Nigeria’s Chief of
Army Staff (COAS), General Tukur Buratai, and his two wives are joint
owners of a Dubai property that was paid for in one transaction posted
on the website, this evening.
“It is important to know that these
baseless allegations were not new. In March this year, some groups of
individuals under the aegis of ‘Concerned Citizens’, tried same smear
campaign to their disappoinment, it could not fly, because it is not
true.”
He recalled that early last week, “there
was similar campaign of calumny by yet another online news medium, The
Cable, in which among other things, it alleged that wounded in action
Nigerian Army personnel were abandoned by the Army, government and the
nation which is not true”.
Therefore, he said, the latest round of
smear campaign by Sahara Reporters is one of the series of campaigns of
calumny by these faceless individuals to malign the Chief of Army Staff
and the Nigerian Army.
“Yet, typical of blackmailers and
mischief makers despite failures, they did not give up, hence they now
found a willing accomplice reputed for muckraking like the Sahara
Reporters. The online news medium this evening uploaded another campaign
of calumny allegedly based on a petition by obviously fake and
non-existent group it described as ‘Concerned Soldiers and Officers From
the North East”, he stressed.
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