Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Nigeria’s chief of army staff has posed with snakes after a visit his snake farm along the Keffi-Abuja Expressway in Nasarawa State.
This is his first outing since going into isolation which he and other top army officers are still observing.
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.
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, according to Saharareportets.
The pictures come after a week since gunmen invaded a government school in Kankara, Katsina State where over 300 schoolboys were abducted.
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.
“The Chief of the Army Staff visited his snake farm today,” Musa wrote on a Whatsapp platform,
