SAN FRANCISCO, October 27, (THEWILL) – Senator Isa Misau, lawmaker representing the Bauchi Central Senatorial District has denied indicting Aisha Buhari, wife of the President, alleging that it was the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, that dropped the President wife’s name.
Misau had on Wednesday, while appearing before the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Investigation of Various Allegations Levelled Against the Police, the Inspector-General of Police and the Police Service Commission probing his allegations against the IGP, claimed that the President’s wife requested and received two SUVs from the police boss for her personal use.
However, Misau, in a statement issued in Abuja, has insisted that it was Idris who dropped Aisha’s name in the documents he (Idris) tendered in the suit filed against the lawmaker by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation on behalf of the Federal Government.
The senator noted that he only made reference to the details in the papers submitted by the IGP
“I am constrained to make this press release without prejudice to the pending charge against me and the mandate of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Various Allegations Against the Police and the Police Service Commission, so as to dissuade any misconceptions or innuendoes that may unwittingly be read into my comments before the committee at its sitting of the Wednesday, 25th October, 2017,” the statement read.
“For the avoidance of doubt, I did not make any allegation against the person of the highly revered wife of the President; my comments in addressing the committee were to the effect of referencing court documents filed in the charge against me before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory by the Inspector-General of Police and the Attorney General of the Federation, with charge no: CR/ 345/17.
“The said documents which form part of the proof of evidence to the charge are correspondence between the Inspector-General of Police and the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation; the Chief of Staff to the President; the Director, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies; the Aide-De-Camp to the wife of the President; and the Chief Personal Security Officer to the President.
“It was indeed a shock to me as I am sure it is to other Nigerians, to see such private and confidential documents with all the minutes of the President and other top government officials carelessly displayed in the public by the Inspector-General of Police in manifest breach of official Secrecy.
“The motive for displaying these documents is no doubt suspicious, given that they have little or no bearing on the matter of inappropriate practices within the Police.
“My submission before the Senate ad hoc committee was simply to call the attention of members as well as the general public to how the IGP is unethically dropping names through filing of secret documents so as to rope these top-ranking innocent personalities into the case.
“The IGP is the one who submitted the official documents mentioning the names of the respected personalities, not me. I believe I need to make this clarification.”
