Dubai Property: Boko Haram Behind Allegations – Army Chief

[caption id="attachment_9598" align="alignnone" width="690"]Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff[/caption]

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said those behind his alleged acquisition of N130 million properties in Dubai are defeated Boko Haram terrorist who have now taken to the nation’s cyberspace.The Army Chief said this while briefing journalist at this year’s Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL 2016) themed “Optimizing the Capability of the Nigerian Army to Meet Contemporary Security Challenges” at the Army Headquarters, in Abuja on Tuesday.

It will be recalled that reports emerged last week that General Tukur Buratai, and his family are joint owners of two properties in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and have been hiding it from the knowledge of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

While dismissing the allegation, Buratai noted that the cyber terrorists would be defeated the same way their counterparts on land were defeated by the Nigerian Army under his leadership in the North East.

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He further stated that the Army has already developed its cyber warriors to counter the narratives and new strategies of those he tagged ‘cyber terrorists’

Buratai however insisted that the Army would not be distracted by the antics of those behind the report in its efforts to ensure national security.

“I am not supposed to comment on this because the Federal Government has already made a statement on that through the Ministry of Defence. But if you want my take on the issue, it is that we have already defeated the terrorists and the insurgents on the land, now they have migrated to the cyberspace, they have migrated to the Internet and other electronic media and so on,” The Army Chief said.

“We want to assure them that these terrorists, the Boko Haram terrorists, who have migrated to the cyberspace, we will follow them to that cyberspace, and equally defeat them and clear their doubts.

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“We are meeting all the terrorists in the cyberspace, we have defeated them, in the battle ground. We are developing our own cyber warriors and we will defeat them as we have done in the North East.

“The issue of the refurbished equipment is still part of campaign of calumny. I refer you to the theatre commander. We are doing internal audit, they know my position. We will continue to do that. Definitely, the way we defeated them, we will defeat them in the cyber space.”

The Nigerian Army and the Federal Government had since debunked the allegation, noting that it is a smear campaign to distract the leadership of the Armed Forces from the successful prosecution of the heightened campaign against terrorism in the North East.

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