President Buhari in trouble,even Army General threatened to kill him
A Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army, Lym Hassan, has reportedly been caught on tape making a threat against the life of President Muhammadu Buhari.
According
to a report by TheCable, Hassan, who was the coordinator of peace
keeping at the Ministry of Defence, is currently facing a court-martial
after his arraignment before a military court on October 30, 2017.
He
was arraigned on two charges of spreading rumours about the president's
death and demanding $600,000 bribe from a defence contractor.
President
Buhari had approved the sum of $1,464,750 on September 26, 2016, for
the relocation and refurbishment of Level 2 Ministry Hospital under the
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali
(MINUSMA) following a directive from the UN.
The
president approved the same contract again on November 9, 2016, this
time for the sum of $1,000,000, with the contract awarded to Opems Integrated Concepts Ltd in February 2017.
Even though the company was directed to
execute the project before April 2017, it was never done in that time,
leading to a violation of the August 2017 deadline for the relocation of
the hospital.
After the failure to
execute the contract, the Ministry of Defence had issued a directive to
serving military officers to execute it through the supply of medical
equipment as well as dismantling and re-assembling the hospital at a new
camp.
This had prompted Brigadier-General Hassan to reportedly demand $600,000 from Opems, unaware that he was being recorded on tape.
When
he was asked by the contractor if he wasn't afraid of being caught up
in President Buhari's anti-corruption war, Hassan allegedly replied, "If the president queries us, we will eliminate him."
Despite Hassan being the only military personnel being prosecuted for the embezzlement of the original contract sum, TheCable reported that insiders in the Ministry of Defence said he was only a scapegoat and many others allegedly shared the money.
They have demanded that President Buhari set up an independent probe into the affair to uncover the other culprits.
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