Character Assassination: Buratai’s legal team threatens to take action against Sahara Reporters
Osuagwu Ugochukwu, the Legal Advisor to Lt General T.Y Buratai (retd) has threatened to take legal action against Sahara Reporters following a recent publication on its webpage titled “EXCLUSIVE: Anti-graft Agency, ICPC Uncovers Billions In Cash Meant For Arms, Ammunition To Fight Boko Haram In Abuja Home Of Ex-Chief Of Army Staff, Buratai” which was published on June 23.
In a press statement issued to journalists on Friday, Ugochukwu said the act was orchestrated to tarnish the image of Ambassador Buratai.
According to Ugochukwu, he and his principal have reviewed the publication and they can authoritatively say the content of the publication is false, concocted and malicious.
The statement partly read “It is on record that on or about 5th April 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the purchase of equipment worth $1bn for the military through the Ministry of Defence.
“It is a fact that the first batch of Six Super Tucano fighter jets arrived in Nigeria July 22, 2021, while the final batch of the 12 A-29 Super Tucano fighter jets arrived October 18, 2021. No Arms fund is ever missing contrary to some previous mischievous publications.
“For the records, no such amount (#850M or any similar sum) was found with Ambassador Buratai nor does he have any Aide bearing such name.
Ambassador Buratai has no office or house in Wuse Abuja (address not supplied by SR) nor does he have any bulletproof cars, BMW, G-Wagon (Particulars of vehicles not also supplied by SR) worth N450m and neither is ICPC investigating any such.”
Given the false allegation against Buratai, the legal adviser said “we shall take all legal steps to hold the publishers accountable for such grievous character assassination on the image of Lt. General T.Y Buratai (retd).”