Security
IBRAHIM Idris, the inspector-general of Police, said on Thursday, October 26, that he released two cars for the security of Aisah Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, and not for her personal use as alleged by Isa Misau, the senator representing the Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Bauchi State.
Idris, who spoke through Jimoh Moshood, a chief superintendent of Police and the police spokesman, said he released a Toyota Sienna and Hiace bus to the aide-de-camp to the wife of the president, and not to the president’s wife.
Moshood in a statement on Thursday, said: “It is within the powers of the IG as stated above that when on January 17, 2017, SP Sani Baba-Inna, the ADC to the wife of the president requested two vehicles for police personnel for convoy movement and security purposes, two vehicles, Toyota Sienna Bus with Reg. No. NPF 2406D and Toyota Hiace Bus with Reg. No. NPF 3363D, were approved by the Inspector-General of Police to the ADC, wife of the president, SP Sani Baba-Inna, for the purposes requested and not to the person of the wife of the President or for her personal use as alleged by Misau.”
Misau had on Wednesday, October 25, while appearing before the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Investigation of Various Allegations Levelled Against the Police, the IG and the Police Service Commission probing his allegations against the IG, claimed that the president’s wife requested and received two Toyota Prado SUVs from the police boss for her personal use.
Misau had told the committee: “I still have some contract papers that the IG himself submitted to the court, where the First Lady through her aide-de-camp requested a Toyota Hiace and a Sienna jeep. The same day that the ADC wrote, the IG minuted that she should be given two jeeps. And it is not part of the appropriation. If you look at the appropriation, there is nowhere they said the First Lady should be given two jeeps.”
Before the IG’s reaction, Mrs. Buhari had earlier on Thursday, October 26, denied receiving cars from the IG, stressing that she still used her personal cars and that there was no truth in the claim by the senator.
– Oct 27, 2017 @ 18:40 GMT |
Tags: I released cars for Aisha Buhari’s security Ibrahim Idris Jimoh Moshood Sani Baba-Inna
