ALLEGED CAR GIFTS: Avoiding specifics, Aisha Buhari says, ‘I’m using my personal car’

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has responded to the claim by Senator Isah Misau that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, fraudulently purchased two Sports Utility Vehicles for her.

In a terse reply which she posted on her twitter handle on Thursday, the First Lady said, “I am using my personal car.”
Misau, who had heaped several allegations of corruption on the IGP had, when he appeared before the Senate Ad Hoc Committee investigating the allegations, added that the IGP also bought two SUVs for Mrs. Buhari. These expenses Misau claimed, were not budgeted.

Read also: Misau drags Aisha Buhari into IGP’s scandal, tells how Idris bought her 2 SUVs

“I still have some contract papers that the IG himself submitted to the court, where the First Lady through her aide-de-camp requested a Toyota Hiace and a Sienna jeep. The same day that the ADC wrote, the IG minuted that she should be given two jeeps. And it is not part of the appropriation. If you look at the appropriation, there is nowhere they said the First Lady should be given two jeeps,” Misau had told the committee.

But Aisha, in her response, only said that she is using her own cars

 

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