Police arrest Saraki's domestic staff after £1m goes missing from his bedroom in Ilorin

MEN of the Kwara State Police Command have arrested several of senate president Bukola Saraki's domestic staff and security detail after N300m (£1.02) mysteriously disappeared from his bedroom at his home in Ilorin.

 

Embattled himself, Senator Saraki is under investigation for the false declaration of assets while he was Kwara State governor between 2003 and 2111 and is standing trial before the Code of Conduct Bureau. His woes, appear to have now multiplied as it is believed that the money, which was in foreign denominations, disappeared almost immediately it arrived.

 

According to Sahara Reporters, Senator Saraki needed some cash with which to please his supporters in Ilorin at the start of the Ramadan season and had requested that the state government provide him with the cash haul. However, no sooner had the cash arrived and it went missing.

 

Last year, Department of State Security (DSS) agents attached to Senator Saraki robbed a Bureau De Change owner who is a cousin of the former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar of N310m. Several months after their arrest the culprits are yet to be charged to court for robbery apparently because the DSS continues to cover up Senator Saraki's ownership of the cash.

 

According to source in Ilorin, latest heist of cash at Senator Saraki’s house is the second time in a month that large sums of money was stolen from the senate president’s Ilorin mansion. However, in the past, detectives quizzed and released Senator Saraki's accountant and several of his security and domestic aides to forestall bad publicity.