Wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari, has reportedly
ordered the arrest of her own Aide De Camp, Sani Baba-Inna, a chief
superintendent of police, for defrauding her.
Premiumtimes reports that Mrs Buhari has accused Baba-Inna of receiving huge donations to the
tune of N2.5 billion from politicians and business people on her behalf and
then kept the cash to himself. Mrs Buhari has allegedly asked the Inspector
General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to arrest and compel Baba-Inna to refund the
money.
Sources in the presidency reportedly confirmed that the
accused police officer, was arrested last Friday September 21st and has
remained in detention ever since, with relatives having no access to him,
family members say.
It is unclear how the president’s wife came about the
allegation, but one source said another aide working for Mrs Buhari originated
the claim.
An associate of the embattled police officer said Mr.
Baba-Inna strongly denied the allegation, saying he received no donation from
anyone on behalf of his boss.
“The IG said the matter must be investigated immediately and
the house of the ADC was raided,” one of our sources said. “Shockingly,
investigators only found N1,200 cash in the House. His bank account was also
investigated and had only a balance of N30,000 while the transaction records
showed that most credits to the account were his salaries and allowances.”the
associate said
The police, it was gathered, concluded that Mrs Buhari must
have been wrongly informed as there was nothing to show or prove that such huge
sums of money was in the custody of Mr Baba-Inna.
An associate of Mr. Baba-Inna said the police contacted
those named as donors of the controversial funds but that they all denied
making the donations attributed to them.
“For instance, one of those named was the IG of Police
himself,” the source said. “But the IG said he has never passed any money
through Baba-Inna.”
When Mrs Buhari was informed of the outcome of police
investigation, the source said the first lady flared up and accused the police
of colluding “to protect one of their own”. She then reportedly asked the State
Security Service (SSS) to take over the case and get her money back”.
SSS operatives have reportedly taken custody of the accused
officer.
When called to react to the report, the spokesperson for the
SSS, Peter Afunanya and that of the Nigerian Police Force NPF, Jimoh Ibrahim,
both denied knowledge of the case.
However, the wife of the embattled police officer, Hassana,
insists her husband has been arrested and that she has not been able to reach
him.
Meanwhile the spokesperson of the wife of the president,
Suleiman Haruna, said although he heard about the matter, he was trying to get
details from Mrs Buhari, who is currently in New York with her husband for the
73rd UN General Assembly.
