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How IGP leaked donation of jeeps to Aisha Buhari – Misau

- By Ismail Mudashir

On his part, Senator Isah Misau yesterday said the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris leaked the documents that exposed the donation of two jeeps to the wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari.

Misau in a statement said his comment 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 IGP and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.

The lawmaker accused the IGP of blackmaili­ng the president’s wife and other high ranking personalit­ies by deliberate­ly and unethicall­y exposing their correspond­ences.

“The 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.

“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,” Misau said.

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