The Chairman Senate Committee on Navy, Isah Misau, has disclosed that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, was behind the leaked documents which exposed the President’s wife, Aisha Buhari and other top government officials.
In a statement issued by the senator in Abuja on Thursday, Misau who represents Bauchi Central in the National Assembly said his comments on approval of two jeeps by the IGP for the President’s wife was in reference to court documents filed in the charge against him by the police chief and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
According to him, “The said documents which formed 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 lawmaker accused the IGP of blackmailing the President’s wife and other high ranking personalities by deliberately exposing their correspondences.
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Misau in the statement said: “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 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 AGF showed that the request for a Sienna vehicle and a Toyota Hiace Bus for the First Lady was 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.
OWEDE AGBAJILEKE, Abuja
