The Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday paraded one
Amina Mohammed for allegedly impersonating the wife of the president, Aisha
Buhari. While parading the suspect before newsmen, the DSS spokesman Peter
Afunanya, said Mohammed impersonated Aisha Buhari to defraud one Alexander
Chika Okafor (aka Chicason) of N150 million.
Speaking, Afunanya said
“The woman who is being paraded has adopted various aliases
and used the same false identities to defraud several unsuspecting persons
before she was discovered. She used the false identity to evade protocol and
scrutiny thus gaining unauthorized access into the Villa and particularly the
residence of the First Lady and wife of the president, Hajia Aisha Buhari. She
took advantage of the fact that personalities as First Ladies, Ministers and
certain categories of officials are not taken through rigorous protocol and
security checks at the Villa posts.
Investigation has revealed that the First Lady was away on
Lesser Hajj and not in the Villa during the period. Okafor had complained that
he was fleeced of over N150 million in respect of a Court of Appeal property in
Lagos which Amina had promised to help him buy through the First Lady. The property
was said to have been part of those under the Presidential Implementation
Committee on Lease of Federal Government Properties. Investigation has shown
that this unholy enterprise is not to the knowledge of the First Lady. What
Amina simply did was to use the First Lady’s name and Office as bait to lure
and defraud her victims,” he said.
When interrogated, the suspect said
“The DSS did not arrest me. I came here on their invitation.
I am not a fraudster, the sisters of the First Lady is involved in this
business. I cannot accept this allegation. The former SGF, Babachir Lawal is
involved in this fraud. Mariatu Aisha’s sister is involved. I did not dupe
Chikason because he usually gives bribe to buy federal government property. The
Directors in the ministry have been involved in getting bribe before bidding is
concluded. I cannot allow anybody to put me to shame to the whole world,” she
said.
