much he earned in dollars, but the general fudged the answer. This led to him being questioned about his properties in Dubai and how this would affect his troops on low pay.
At this point, the floundering and out of his depth general should have just waved the white flag, but he chose to lose all sense of decorum, opening his mouth but nothing but nonsense kept tumbling out.
If this were a boxing contest, Buratai’s corner-men and/or the referee would have stepped in and put their man out of his misery. But there was no one to stop Sackur, so he kept dropping bombs. He asked Buratai where Buhari was, adding that the president was likely somewhere “here in London”, but clearly not fit to continue.
Buhari has been incapacitated in London for 60 days and not been seen in public since. As Buratai tried to suggest everything was under control because there was an acting president, Sackur reminded him of his earlier warning to any officers thinking of taking advantage of the sense of instability arising from the president’s absence.
The inquisitor then asked how long the uncertainty over Buhari can be allowed to continue. Buratai didn’t know, but he was glad that time was up on the interview and his own suffering in the hands of Sackur could no longer continue.
