Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur BurataiThe Nigerian Army has declared that it will soon publicly name those it called political collaborators of the Boko Haram even as it denied that the Chief of Army Staff was ambushed by the terrorist gang in the Northeast.
A statement by the Director of the Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman said that the Army is closing up on the political Boko Haram terrorists and their collaborators.
“They will soon be exposed and the law will take its course against them.”
The statement, which expressed dismay of the military over an online media publication that the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai, was wounded in an alleged ambush by Boko Haram terrorists at an unnamed location in the North East, said that the soldiers are currently dealing decisive blows on the Boko Haram Terrorists in the Lake Chad area.
“Over 60 of the terrorists have either been captured or neutralised in the last 3 days.”
It said that the Chief of Army Staff has not been involved in any ambush and that there was no any recently reported ambush against any of the troops anywhere let alone in the North East.
While advising members of the public to disregard the ambush story as it is fake, the statement said that the Chief of Army Staff is currently “hale and hearty and conducting his official duties diligently.
“We wish to use this opportunity to thank the teeming Nigerians that called and showed concern over this unfortunate fake news. “We wish to assure you that no amount of mischief or campaign of calumny under any guise will distract the Chief of Army Staff from his determined efforts of leading a responsive Nigerian Army in the discharge of its Constitutional roles.”[myad]
