Police arrest 60-year-old househelp to Yar’Adua

The police command in Katsina State, 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 has arrested Alhaji Yusuf Sarkin-gida after a formal complaint by Hajiya Turai Yar’adua to the police two weeks ago.

“The suspect is the custodian of all the keys and property of Hajiya 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,” he said.

The police 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.