Misau and his ridiculous testimony (1), By SALMA AMINU

unpatriotically engineering activities that have become malignant tumors on the nation’s body polity. It is sad to note that since the emergence of the 9th Senate, Nigerians are daily fed with the news of varieties of wars between some members of Senate and various organs in our political system. If verbal missiles are not directed at the Presidency by some senators, it will be to state governors, or to individuals, or institutions in the political system. On the basis of this, the concentration required for making laws for good governance of the country has been lost in the wilderness of unnecessary trouble making, most of which are motivated by selfi sh desires on the part of some senators of Federal Republic of Nigeria. Senator Isah Hamma Misau, representing Bauchi Central, remains one of these good for nothing senators, therefore shouldn’t have any business being there.
The repeated attacks by the senator on the person of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris through baseless allegations and accusations have remained sources of worry to most discerning and dispassionate Nigerians.
This is so because, almost always, these allegations are neither substantiated nor convincing enough to make meaning to any one with suffi cient rationality. Truly, therefore, if the activities of Senator Misau in the last couple of weeks can be reference points, one may hardly be wrong to conclude that the senator is not only a disaster in the red chamber, but he is to the district he represents.
Members of his senatorial district appear lucky to have earlier on recognized ignoble disposition of their son. In one of the senator’s visit to his district, the youth in the community chased him out by raining stone and other offensive objects on him and members of his entourage to demonstrate their disenchantment over his ‘mis’- representation.
In his testimony before Senate committee appointed to investigate the allegations, Misau did not only repeat his narratives, which now sounded like jaded mantras, against the person of IGP Idris, he went ahead to raise fresh allegations. This time around, attempt was made to drag the wife of Mr. President into his webs of allegations. According to the senator, IGP Idris gave two Sport Utility Vehicle (SUVs) to the wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, for her personal use. Giving what sounded like detailed information about the alleged gift, Senator Misau said the President’s wife made the request through her Aide de Camp for a Toyota Sienna and Hiace bus for her private use.
One cannot but laugh over this childish narrative for two fundamental reasons: the wife of the president is not so poor as not to be able to buy two cars of such low category for her private use. And even if she is a greedy type who spares no opportunity in her own interest for material acquisition, she will not be as naive to create a clear record of such transactions as to direct her ADC to raise an offi cial letter to that eff ect. If Isa Misau doesn’t think everyone reasons the way he does, there is no way he can present such a laughable allegation. He also alleged that the retirement date of the IGP was doctored on the staff list of senior police offi cers to January 15, 2019 from January 3 of the same year.
As ridiculous as this allegation, the committee failed to ask the senator to convince the members about the implications of the 12 days alleged manipulation in the retirement age. In his further attempt to smear the image of the IGP, Misau accused him of diverting police fund for his personal use, paying poor attention to personal welfare of the police as well as sexual harassment of female police officers. Like others, all these were not substantiated with any evidence whatsoever.
And the committee members do not appear bothered about the emptiness and pettiness of such presentations. His accusation that the IGP created special units that report directly to him, which he said undermined the police legitimate department, is as unrealistic as it is childish. I am sure Senator Misau will agree that the rate of crime is on the increase on daily basis in Nigeria. Although, he may, out of selfishness refuse to agree that the crime rate

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