Senate President Bukola Saraki Sunday denied that the sum of N310million allegedly
stolen from a Bureau de Change operator in November 2015, by suspected operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and some army personnel was found in his house.
Saraki According to Saraki, the content and intention of the story was not only fake, but baseless allegations emanating from those
he described as the infantile minds of unreasonable interlopers, hell bent on
rubbing mud on his reputation as the Senate President, warning that Enough is enough.
Saraki who described the report as totally untrue which must be disregarded, said that what he termed, unwarranted fake report
forms part of the April Fool ritual, adding that the public deserves a better deal from its sponsors and purveyors.
A statement signed Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Sani Onogu read, ” The attention of the Media Office of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar
Bukola Saraki, has been drawn to a rehash of mischievous and concocted allegations aimed at misleading the public with
spurious claims that the Senate President allegedly owned the sum of N310million said to have been stolen from a Bureau de
Change operator in November 2015, by suspected operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and some army personnel.
“This Office wants to reiterate that the Senate President had nothing to do with the said stolen money by suspected security agents then and even now as being maliciously peddled by some online media to tarnish his image.
“It would be recalled that when the incident was reported by the media in December 2015, a section of the online media which
has become notorious for dragging the name of the Senate President into issues that he knows nothing about, the DSS issued a statement where it stated that it had arrested some of its men that partook in robbing a Bureau de Change operator in
Abuja.
“This Office had also in a statement, in reaction to the false report, stated that the Senate President had nothing to do with the money allegedly stolen. We still insist that he has nothing to do with the money and we
challenge those still rehashing the stale and fake news to avail themselves of the reports
of the police and the DSS on the matter to avoid misleading members of the public
unnecessarily.
“Let me state that the Senate President has no army personnel among his security details. Therefore, it becomes absurd for
one of the suspects in the robbery to have claimed according to the report that the money was brought to the Senate President’s house from where they connived
to steal it.
“The report remains a lie which must be disregarded by the public, and should it be recirculated tomorrow, it will still remain a
lie. At best we count this unwarranted fake report as part of the April Fool ritual. But the
public deserves a better deal from its sponsors and purveyors.
“Besides, the content and intention of the fake is nothing but baseless allegations
emanating from the infantile minds of unreasonable interlopers, hell bent on
rubbing mud on the reputation of a distinguished Nigerian, who is today in his
capacity as the Senate President, is working assiduously with critical stakeholders to stabilize and grow our economy. Enough is enough.”
