Aisha Buhari orders arrest of her ADC who she accuses if collecting donations using her name

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's wife Aisha has invited the police into the presidential villa to come and arrest her aide-de-camp Chief Superintendent of Police Sani Baba-Inna who she has accused of defrauding her.

In a major scandal, Hadjia Aisha Buhari is alleging that Mr Baba-Inna received huge donations from politicians and business people on her behalf and then kept the cash to himself. She has requested that the inspector-general of police Ibrahim Idris arrest and compel Mr Baba-Inna to refund the money, put at over N2.5bn. ($6.86m).

Last Friday, the police officer was arrested and has remained in detention ever since, with relatives having no access to him. One associate of the embattled police officer said Mr Baba-Inna strongly denied the allegations, saying he received no donation from anyone on behalf of his boss.

One police source said: “The IG said the matter must be investigated immediately and the house of the ADC was raided. Shockingly, investigators only found N1,200 cash in the house, his bank account was also investigated and he only had a balance of N30,000 while the transaction records showed that most credits to the account were his salaries and allowances.”

Now, there are fears within police circles that Hadjia Buhari must have been wrongly informed as there was nothing to show or prove that such huge sums of money was in the custody of Mr Baba-Inna. One of Mr Baba-Inna's associates said the police contacted those named as donors of the controversial funds and they all denied making the donations attributed to them.

He added: “For instance, one of those named was the IG of Police himself. However, the IG said he has never passed any money through Baba-Inna.”

When Hadjia Buhari was informed of the outcome of police investigation, the source said the first lady flared up and accused the police of colluding to protect one of their own. She then reportedly asked the State Security Service (SSS) to take over the case and get her money back.