B’Haram cyber terrorists are behind my Dubai property allegations – COAS

Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, has blamed Boko Haram for the reports of his assets in Dubai. He made the revelation while speaking at a media briefing. The Army Chief said that the FG had already made clarifications on the issue through a statement issued by the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali on Monday.

The Defence Minister had said that the report on the properties was an attempt by some persons to distract the leadership of the Armed Forces from the successful prosecution of the heightened campaign against terrorism in the North East.

Dan-Ali who described the report as a campaign of calumny targeting the image of the Army Chief, explained that the the Army Chief had declared the properties before the Code of Conduct Bureau which could be verified.

In his speech, Buratai said, “I am not supposed to comment on this because the FG 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.

We want to assure them that we will follow them to that cyberspace, and equally defeat them and clear their doubts. 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.”.