The Police Command in Katsina on Tuesday said it had arrested a
60-year-old househelp of Hajiya Turai Yar’adua, the wife of the late
President Umaru Musa Yar’adua over missing goods worth N91 million.
Alhaji Usman Abdullahi, the police Commissioner in the state, disclosed
this to newsmen on Tuesday in Katsina.
“The Police have arrested Alhaji Yusuf Sarkin-gida after a formal
complaint by Hajiya Turai Yar’adua to the Police two weeks ago.
“The suspect is the custodians of all the keys and property of Hajiya
Turai Yar’adua for the past forty years.
“There are 37 boxes in the custody of the suspect, but only 27 boxes are
in the store. “The several items in the 27 boxes are completely missing
and the suspect has failed to give full explanation on the goods and items
in the boxes,” he said.
The Commissioner said the suspect had been serving the Late Umar
Yar’adua’s family for the past 40 years even before her husband became the
governor and later the President of Nigeria.
Abdullahi said the suspect was in Police custody, where he was assisting
them to conduct intensive investigation on the missing items.
When contacted, the spokesperson of Sarkin-gida’s family, Alhaji Mohammed
Yusuf, said their father was innocent of the charge lavelled against him.
He said the arrest and detention of their father before the Eld-el-Kabir
celebration had thrown the family into confusion.
He appealed to Human Rights Organisations to come to the rescue of their
father.