Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed that her Aide De Camp (ADC) was detained over allegations of fraud.
Mrs. Buhari in a statement issued by her spokesman, Suleiman Haruna, insisted that her ADC, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Sani Baban-Inna used her name and that of her children to fraudulently obtain money from highly placed individuals.
She however denied ordering his arrest.
The statement read in part, …….. “The story as it pertains to her ADC, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Sani Baban-Inna has it that he has been detained on the orders of Her Excellency for dropping her name and defrauding unsuspecting officials and associates. She wishes to use this opportunity to refute such allegation and to state that she has no hand in his arrest and detention.
“CSP Sani Baban-Inna has been her ADC since 2016 and has been associated with her ever since. To the utter dismay of Her Excellency, he has used the opportunity to defraud unsuspecting associates and officials as initial investigations have shown.
“The Nigeria Police Force, his employers arrested him to investigate the allegations leveled against him, this, being within their jurisdiction.
“She therefore wishes to use this opportunity to inform the general public that she has never sent any of her staff to collect any favours on her behalf or on behalf of her children and will never do so. She is therefore imploring anyone that has been defrauded by Mr. Baban-Inna to get across to him to retrieve whatever he took from them. Mrs. Buhari wishes to reiterate that she will not condone fraudulent behavior by any of her staff.
“She uses this opportunity to call on all those in positions of authority to rise above intimidation by their aides and deal with such attitudes as extortion by name-dropping, especially within the Presidency. As she always emphasizes, this government was voted into office based on the trust and confidence of the people”.
Recall that Premium Times had reported that Mrs. Buhari’s accusations led to the arrest of her ADC. According to the paper, Baba-Inna was accused of receiving huge donations from politicians and business people in Mrs. Buhari’s name, but he withheld the money.
Mrs Buhari was reported by the online medium as requesting the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to arrest and compel Mr. Baba-Inna to refund the money, estimated at about N2.5billion.
According to the paper, police investigators working according to the directive of the IGP only found N1,200 cash in embattled policeman’s house. His bank account was also investigated and had only a balance of N30,000 while his transaction records showed that most payments to the account were his salaries and allowances.
The police, the paper reported, concluded that wife’s president could have been fed with the wrong information.
But this did not stop her from allegedly asking the Department of State Security (DSS) to wade into the matter. The DSS confirmed that the president’s wife’s ADC was in their custody.
The confirmation was closely followed by the statement from the office of the wife of the President, insisting that her former ADC must face the full wrath of the law.
Mrs. Buhari wasn’t in Abuja when the news broke. She accompanied President Buhari to the United National General Assembly currently holding in New York.
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