It has been a week since gunmen invaded a government school in Kankara, Katsina State, abducting over 300 schoolboys and Buratai had not made a public comment, amidst calls for the sack of the perceived inefficient service chiefs.
The Chief of Army
Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, has visited his snake farm along the Keffi-Abuja
Expressway in Nasarawa State, posing with a large snake, amidst the COVID-19
isolation which he and other top army officers are still observing.
The Acting Director,
Brig-Gen Sagir Musa, shared Buratai's photos on Wednesday evening, which showed
the army chief beaming with smiles, as he held the large python by the neck and
tail, posing for the camera.
It has been a week
since gunmen invaded a government school in Kankara, Katsina State, abducting
over 300 schoolboys and Buratai had not made a public comment, amidst calls for
the sack of the perceived inefficient service chiefs.
In some photos also
shared on the Facebook platform, Buratai paid a visit to his snake farm, days
after President Muhammadu Buhari in the wake of the Kankara abduction was also
sighted on his cow farms, despite not visiting the grieving school.
SaharaReporters had
earlier also reported that the Keffi-Abuja road is listed as one of the worst
roads in Nigeria notorious for kidnapping and bandits activities.
"The Chief of the
Army Staff visited his snake farm today," Musa wrote on a Whatsapp
platform, showing Buratai's pictures, despite the army's spokesman not forthcoming
on the steps taken by the military to rescue the abducted schoolboys.
Only on December 13,
more than 25 Nigerian Army generals had tested positive for COVID-19.
The generals
believably contracted the virus after he earlier came in contact with Major
General Olu Irefin who died from COVID-19 complications last week.
The affected senior
army officers were attendees of the 2020 Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference
at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre in Abuja, who were tested by officials of
the NCDC.
The late General
Irefin had reportedly visited some of his colleagues at home before he attended
the conference.
As a result, Buratai,
all the officers who attended the conference, their wives, and other members of
their families who live with them, have been directed to isolate themselves for
a week by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
The venue of the
aborted conference – the Nigerian Army Resource Centre in Asokoro – has also
been decontaminated by health officials at the weekend.
A day earlier, gunmen
suspected to be bandits attacked Kankara, Katsina State, as President Buhari
paid his first visit to Katsina State, where he hails from, in 2020.
Till now, for reasons not yet known, the President had chosen not to visit the school or have an audience with the grieving parents.
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