The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, also said those spreading the rumours are out to distract Buratai.

The Chief Of Army staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has accused cyber terrorists of spreading false allegations against him.

Buratai also said the Army is putting a cyber team together to counter the alleged terrorists’ propaganda.

The Army chief also said the rumours are being spread by members of the Boko Haram sect who have been defeated.

Also, the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, who spoke to Punch on the issue, said those spreading the rumours are out to distract Buratai, adding that details of the property were in the asset declaration form which the Army chief submitted before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).

Buratai also said “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.