The Nigeria police in Ilorin questioned and then
released several domestic aides as well as some members of the security
detail assigned to Senate President Bukola Saraki in connection with the
mysterious disappearance of N300 million from the senator’s bedroom in
Ilorin, capital of Kwara State.
An investigation by SaharaReporters confirmed that the money that
went missing at the home of Mr. Saraki in Ilorin had just been ferried
there by the state government in different foreign exchange
denominations. SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Saraki called on
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to provide the cash to enable the senator to
provide largesse to his supporters in Ilorin at the start of the Ramadan
season.
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This is not the first time that a gargantuan sum of cash connected to
Mr. Saraki grew wings and disappeared. Last year, agents of the
Department of State Security (DSS) attached to the embattled Senate
President stole a huge sum of money that the owner of a bureau de
change, who is a cousin of former military Head of State, Abdulsalami
Abubakar, was ferrying to Mr. Saraki. Several months after their arrest,
the DSS agents have yet to be formally charged to court for robbery,
SaharaReporters found out. A source within the agency told our
correspondent that the DSS and Mr. Saraki were colluding to cover up the
case. “Senator Saraki does not want the public to start asking
questions about the source of the money. And the DSS does not want the
role of our agents to become public knowledge,” the source disclosed.
Two reliable sources in Ilorin confirmed the latest heist of the
illicit cash approved by Governor Ahmed of Kwara State and sent to Mr.
Saraki’s home in the state capital. Mr. Saraki, a former governor of
Kwara State, had anointed Mr. Ahmed as his successor.
One of our sources claimed that this was the second time in a month
that large sums of money disappeared from the Senate President’s Ilorin
mansion.
A police source in the state disclosed that detectives had quizzed
and released the accountant to Mr. Saraki and several of his security
and domestic aides. The source added that their hasty release was
apparently a measure to ensure that the financial scandal did not
attract publicity or media attention.
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