Lawmaker representing the Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Isa Misau, on Midweek opened upward a tin of worms on the crisis betwixt him too the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, proverb the IG gave ii Sports Utility Vehicles to the married adult woman of the President, Aisha Buhari.
Misau made to a greater extent than allegations when he appeared before the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Investigation of Various Allegations Levelled Against the Police, the Inspector General of Police too the Police Service Commission.
According to Misau, details of how Idris gave Mrs. Buhari the ii SUV were contained inwards the documents the police describe boss submitted to courtroom inwards the conform instituted against him yesteryear the Minister of Justice too Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, on behalf of the Federal Government.
He said, “I silent possess got some contract papers that the IG himself submitted to the court, where the First Lady through her aide-de-camp requested a Toyota Hiace too a Sienna jeep. The same twenty-four hr menstruum that the ADC wrote, the IG minuted that she should survive given ii jeeps. And it is non component of the appropriation. If y'all expression at the appropriation, at that topographic point is nowhere they said the First Lady should survive given ii jeeps.”
Members of the panel, however, asked Misau to clarify who the “First Lady” was equally she could survive married adult woman of the president or a governor.
The lawmaker replied, “The alphabetic quality came from the ADC to the married adult woman of the President. The most unfortunate thing is that fifty-fifty inwards the letter, the ADC wrote that they wanted the vehicles for her private engagements; they wrote that they wanted Sienna too Hiace too the IG said they should survive given ii jeeps. And he supplied the document to the court.”
When contacted on the telephone, the Director of Information to the Wife of the President, Suleiman Haruna, said he had no information on the affair at the time.
He promised to brand enquiries too larn dorsum to PUNCH correspondent.
Haruna has yet to exercise too thence equally of the fourth dimension of filing this report.
The IG also did non answer to an SMS inquiring well-nigh his alleged donation of ii jeeps to Mrs. Aisha Buhari.
Misau also criticised the leadership of the Lagos State Police Command equally an representative of how the IG was allegedly involved inwards favouritism. He alleged that the electrical flow Acting Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, was posted to Lagos State because he was a classmate to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
He said, “There is a lot of favouritism inwards the advertisement too appointment of Commissioners of Police. Junior Deputy Commissioners of Police are given Commissioner of Police on acting capacity equally against seniority too merit, thereby blocking eligible candidates.
“A recent representative is the acquaint CP Lagos, who is a junior DCP to ii other DCPs, but was given Acting CP too posted to Lagos. These acts of favouritism possess got eroded dependent plain inwards the force, which is the backbone of whatever successful organisation.
“The argue why they took him to Lagos was because he is a friend to the Governor of Lagos State because they were inwards schoolhouse together or because they studied a course of educational activity together.”
He added, “The IGP posted a Commissioner of Police who for the yesteryear 17 years has non worked or served inwards a police describe formation to accept accuse of a state. This officer, who was a onetime Police ADC to the slow onetime Governor (Diepreye) Alamiesiegha too also served nether onetime President Goodluck Jonathan, is immediately the Commissioner of Police, Adamawa State.
Misau farther alleged that the retirement appointment of the Police boss had been manipulated.
“The expected appointment of retirement of the IGP was fraudulently doctored on the Staff List of Senior Police Officers from tertiary Jan to 15th January, 2019,” he said.
Misau added, “I possess got a re-create of the Staff List of when he became IG too I possess got some other ane of when he was an Assistant Commissioner of Police, which exhibit that the dates are different.”
The lawmaker also defendant Idris of awarding contracts worth over N2bn to a Peugeot motorcar dealer to larn Toyota cars.
He said, “In the papers the IG submitted to the court, I saw ane Kaura Motors. Kaura Motors deals inwards Peugeot cars but the same twenty-four hr menstruum he was given ii contracts: ane of them is N1.2bn, the other ane is well-nigh N1.5bn, to render Toyota vehicles. How tin y'all give a contract to somebody who is a dealer inwards Peugeot to render Toyota?”
The senator also made reference to an before probe of the IG yesteryear the House of Representatives, which indicted the Police boss for alleged diversion of funds inwards the 2016 budget of the safety outfit.
He said, “The IGP is alleged to possess got diverted the funds provided nether the 2016 Appropriations Act for the acquisition of Armoured Personnel Carriers to buy of luxury cars without virement; too that he essentially runs the police describe similar a personal belongings yesteryear applying police describe resources too valuable assets to personal role yesteryear his children too unopen associates.”
The senator buttressed his before allegation that the police describe nether Idris’ leadership were beingness paid for safety services to organisations too individuals.
“It is non a apartment rate. Even hither inwards the National Assembly, a lot of senators are paying police describe nether the ‘SPU;’ fifty-fifty inwards the National Assembly, when senators are travelling, they apply too they are told to pay (an officer) peradventure N5,000 per day. People pay; it is an opened upward secret,” he said.
Misau urged the panel to enquire the Central Bank of Nigeria to furnish it amongst the contestation of a “GL Account,” which, according to him, is meant for depository fiscal establishment managers from where they depict coin to run their branches.
“You volition run into the sort of coin they are paying every calendar month from that account,” he said.
He added, “Apart from that, the CBN Governor (Dr. Godwin Emefiele) some June too July of this yr directed all commercial banks to give coin to police describe inwards hundreds of millions – every commercial bank. That coin runs into billions.”
But endeavor to utter amongst Acting Director of Communication at CBN, Mr. Isaac Okoroafor, on this allegation proved abortive, equally calls to his mobile publish rang out.
Misau told the lawmakers that he had had a cordial human relationship amongst Idris.
“All of a sudden, for the IG to starting fourth dimension proverb that I am a deserter; he merely took it personal because of incompetence, because he does non know how to grip the situation. I don’t possess got whatever consequence amongst the IG,” he said.
However, the police describe spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, could non survive reached for comment equally he did non answer to calls too SMS.
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