A 60-year-old Yusuf Sarkin Gida who is a house help of Hajiya Turai Yar’adua, the wife of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, has been arrested by the police over missing goods worth N91 million.
The Katsina state police commissioner, Alhaji Usman Abdullahi, told news men that Yusuf Sarkin Gida was arrested after a formal complained was lodged 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 40 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.”
The police commissioner said that the suspect has been serving the late Umar Yar’adua family for the past 40 years even before her husband became the governor and later the President of Nigeria.
Usman Abdullahi said that the suspect is in Police custody and is currently 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 leveled against him.
He said that the arrest and detention of their father before the Eld-el-Kabir celebration had thrown the family into confusion.
He appealed to human rights organizations to come to the rescue of their father. [myad]
