Two SUVs Gift: I Didn't Expose Aisha Buhari - Senator Misau Says IG of Police Leaked Confidential Letter

Posted by Odinaka on Fri 27th Oct, 2017 - tori.ng

More wounds are opening up in the lingering quagmire between the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and Senator Isah Hamma Misau which fingered the president's wife.

Senator Isa Hamma Misau has disclosed that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, was the mastermind of the leaked documents which exposed the President’s wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and not him.

Vanguard reported that in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, Senator Misau said that his comment on approval of two jeeps by the IG of Police for the president’s wife, was in reference to court documents filed in the charge against him by the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General of the Federation.

He said; “the said documents which form part of the proof of evidence to the charge are correspondence between the Inspector General of Police and the following: the President and C-in-C of the Federation; The Chief of Staff to the President; the Director, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies; the ADC to the Wife of. The President; and the Chief Personal Security Officer to the President.”

The Senator however accused the IG of Police of blackmailing the President’s wife and other high ranking personalities by deliberately and unethically exposing their correspondences.

Misau’s statement read,”it was indeed a shock to me, as 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 respected personalities, not me. I believe I need to make this clarification.”

A copy of the document filed in court by the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General of the Federation, which was made available to Journalists showed that the request for a Sienna vehicle and a Toyota Hiace Bus for the first lady was indeed addressed to Ibrahim Idris and signed by the ADC to the President’s Wife, SP Sani Baba-Inna.

The request which was contained in letter which was dated January 17, 2017, was officially approved the following day by the IGP in a handwritten minute approving the purchase of two jeeps.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Police Force has reacted to claim by the senator that the Police IG bought two jeeps for the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari.

Spokesperson of the Force, Jimoh Moshood said the allegation by Misau were “baseless and an outright falsehood,” and described the report as a calculated attempt at misinforming the public.