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The Nigeria Police Force has arrested
three persons who allegedly have links with one Kaltim Ahmed, a fierce critic of Nigeria's first lady, Aisha Buhari.
According to SaharaReporters, those arrested are Salisu Isyaku, Salisu Habib, and Zubairu Ahmed.
The three were reportedly arrested on December 14, 2022, and detained in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and were not allowed access to their families and lawyers.
Detectives from the Force Intelligence Bureau, FIB, at the force headquarters tracked down the three and arrested them for allegedly having “contact” with the principal suspect.
One of them, Salisu Isyaku, a bureau de change operator, was arrested for exchanging Saudi riyals for naira for the principal suspect, a security source at the presidency said.
“Initially, he was charged with terrorism financing but later changed to cyberstalking when the police realized that the transaction between them was not up to N500,000.
“The police are under intense pressure from Madam [first lady] to deal with the suspects. She wanted the suspects to be charged.
"Even the release of the Dutse university student was not done with her consent, and she was angry with the IGP (the Inspector-General of Police] over the withdrawal of charges against the boy,” the source added.
The Police have yet to react to the development.
The principal suspect, Ms. Ahmed, who is believed to be a resident of Saudi Arabia has strongly criticized what she called the Fulani dominance of Hausa via audio messages shared on Whatsapp and other social media platforms.
She had also condemned Mrs. Buhari for ordering the arrest and sanctioning the brutalization of a final-year student.
In an audio message posted on the YouTube channel @jarumhausatv Ms. Ahmed claimed that the first lady's grandparents were itinerant foreigners wandering in bushes, and challenged Mrs. Buhari to arrest her.
“Your husband deceived us, lying and crying. It is good that we elected him, and his election exposed all the Fulanis in Nigeria.
“Your government is silent about the killing of Hausa people by Fulani. The southerners have rained all manner of abuses against you, but you are silent. Now you are here intimidating Northerners,” Ms. Ahmed said in the audio.
In November last year, the Nigeria police arrested Aminu Mohammed, a final-year student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, for saying that the First Lady had fed fat on poor people's money.
A former aide to the first lady, Zainab Kazeem was also arrested for allegedly accessing Mrs. Buhari’s Instagram account and deleting her posts.
Both were later released with charges against them dropped, following public outcry against their illegal arrest, detention, and torture, according to SaharaReporters.
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