Aisha Buhari Confirms Detention Of Her ADC On Account Of Fraud

Aisha Buhari

By CLEMENT NWOJI, Abuja

Wife of Nigeria’s President , Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has confirmed arrest of her Aide De Camp (ADC), Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Sani Baban-Inna, on account of fraud and exhortation.

She however, denied ordering for the ADC’s arrest and detention, while urging those who had been defrauded by the ADC by dropping her name, to approach the detained Baban-Inna, for the refund.

Aisha Buhari’s confirmation of the detained ADC and denial of ordering for the arrest was contained in a statement by the Director of Information to the Wife of the President, Suleiman Haruna.

An Online publication had claimed that Aisha Buhari ordered the arrest and detention of her ADC on account of defrauding her over N2 billion.

But Aisha Buhari who did not mention the amount, said the ADC who had been with her since 2016, “has used the opportunity to defraud unsuspecting associates and officials as initial investigations have shown.”

The below is the full text of the statement:
*Press Statement from the Wife of the President*

The attention of wife of the President, Dr. Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has been drawn to some media publications and releases purporting illegal detention of her Aide De Camp (ADC) over allegations of fraud.

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.

Suleiman Haruna
Director of Information
to Wife of the President
State House
Abuja

08037866802