News
Burataigate: The Butcher of Zaria is also a Boko Haram facilitator
“The farm is currently a huge construction site, featuring a tarred road, a zoo, a guesthouse, chalets, a restaurant, a cinema hall, a mini-stadium and other leisure facilities,” said the source, adding that some of the equipment on the site belongs to Nigerian army.
The conscious Nigerian public commentators were not convinced by the defense of the assets acquisition by the Nigerian army Chief as contained in a statement released by the army image maker.
They asked “how can a public officer like Buratai afford to pay for a choice property in Dubai ‘Project Marina Hotel Unit 2711’ in one lump, instead of by installments.
The single payment earned him what the sellers, Sigma 111, called ‘incentives, promotions and early payment bonus’?”
One public commentator reasoned that “even if Buratai accumulated all his salaries and allowances since his commission in to the Nigerian army in 1983 to date, the entire accumulated sum cannot pay for his $1.5 million choice properties in Dubai!”
So the question that Nigerians are asking is “where did Buratai got all these colossal sums of money that he has used to buy choice properties in Nigeria and abroad as a public officer of the Nigerian army?”
Nigerian media outlets and their foreign counterparts have recently accused the government of President Buhari has been selective in its anti-corruption crusade as the main targets up till now are members of the main opposition party, the PDP, and some selected Nigerians that have issues with the power that be.
Despite all these damning disclosures of the monumental corruption of the Nigerian army Chief Buratai, the Nigerian government is silent despite repeated calls from all sections of the Nigerian society for Buratai to resign and be investigated for corrupt practices.
No doubt the BurataiGate will act as a litmus test to the so-called anti-corruption claims and credentials of the Buhari administration as increasing number of Nigerians are becoming disillusioned with the lies, cover-ups and double standards of the Buhari administration.
On a final note, a mass-murderer and Boko Haram facilitator like Buratai should not only be allowed to head the army of a great nation like Nigeria as this megalomaniac character is better suited locked-up in either the jails of those corrupted Nigerians who betrayed the public trust given to them or the jails of brutal and inhuman war criminals who committed heinous war crimes against defenseless civilians.
Harun Elbinawi, elbinawi@yahoo.com
For Diaspora Digital Media Updates click on Whatsapp, or Telegram. For eyewitness accounts/ reports/ articles, write to: citizenreports@diasporadigitalmedia.com. Follow us on X (Fomerly Twitter) or Facebook
Continue Reading
