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Punch Newspaper’s Fallacy Against Dambazau -By Edwin Uhara
The fake news report published against the Honourable Mininter of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau by the Punch Newspaper in it’s feature story today is a classical case of false report with make-up stories from unverifiable sources.
The fake news writer, Mr. Eniola Akinkuotu tried hard to sell his cooked up lies against the Minister to Nigerians but the reporter is only smart by half because his report lacked substance, evidence and verifiable sources.
Hence, the latest attempt to tarnish the image and hard-earned reputation of General Dambazau simply because he is serving as Minister in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Government will not stand no matter how hard they try.
Because the enemies of the government could not find any fault with the Minister on his current job, they resorted to manufacturing lies and false narratives against his past clean records in office.
However, I want to let Nigerians know that they are against the Minister simply because he has succeeded where their friends and cronies failed. It is on record that under Dambazau’s watch as Minister of Interior, there is absolute peace, calm and stability in the entire nation despite the fact that we have about five days to the general elections.
Hence, it is understandable why they are doing what they are doing to distract the Minister.
There is no doubt that these folks have been pedling false reports against the Minister simply because he served as Chief of Army Staff between 2008 and 2010 but because the Punch Newspaper has joined them in publishing fake news against General Dambazau, I have decided to set the records straight.
Accordingly, the insinuation that General Dambazau was indicted by the arms probe panel is a lie from the pit of hell.
General Dambazau was never indicted by any probe panel because he never committed any offence in the first place. That General Dambazau once served as Chief of Army Staff does not mean he awarded military contacts for the purchase of arms at the time.
Let it be noted that when General Dambazau was Chief of Army Staff, the power to award military contracts for the purchase of arms was strictly done at the Ministry of Defence and not by the service chiefs as been claimed by the Punch Newspaper.
That was why Dambazau’s contemporaries like Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin who also served as Chief of Air Force when General Dambazau was Chief of Army Staff was not indicted
Also, because of the above fact, both Olusenyi Petinrin and General
Like I asked earlier, is it because General Dambazau is serving under Buhari’s government that he must also be indicted for playing no part
Evidence has also shown that during their time when General Mukhtar was the National Securty Adviser, there was no single arms deal as all procurements were done by the Ministry of Defence only.
So, why are they after this man for goodness sake?
Besides, when the Boko Haram insurgency began, General Dambazau had
Now, I’m beginning to notice that public service in Nigeria is one of
Comrade Edwin Uhara writes from Abuja.