Sellin, said the government has no information to provide on the fraud
allegation.
The United States government has said it has no information on the
alleged criminal offence committed in the country by Aisha Buhari, the
President’s wife.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose had in June alleged that Mrs
Buhari was wanted in the US for her role in the $185 million Halliburton
scandal.
Responding to a Punch enquiry on the matter, the acting Public Affairs
Officer, US Consulate General, Lagos, Frank Sellin , said the government
has no information to provide on the fraud allegation.
“Thank you for the inquiry. We have no information to provide on this
matter,” Sellin said.
Fayose, in his reaction to the freezing of his Zenith Bank accounts by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Governor alleged
that Buhari’s wife wired $170,000 to Williams Jefferson , a US
congressman American who was also indicted in the case.
Fayose had said: “Even the President cannot claim to be an angel. The
estate he built in Abuja is known to us. His wife was indicted in the
Halliburton scandal. When that American, Jefferson, was being
sentenced, the President’s wife was mentioned as having wired
$170,000 to Jefferson. Her name was on page 25 of the sentencing of
Jefferson. We can serialise the judgment for people to see and read.”
However, a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, has since dismissed Fayose’s
claims, saying the Aisha Buhari mentioned in the scandal is not the
President’s wife, but someone else entirely.
“I can tell you authoritatively that the Aisha Buhari named in that case
is not President Buhari’s wife, It is another Aisha Buhari entirely,” he
said
Lamorde was the director of operations at the EFCC at the time the
Halliburton scandal was on. Buhari removed him as the chairman of the
anti-graft agency in December 2015
Culled from: http://pulse.ng/local/aisha-buhari-us-clears-presidents-
wife-in-alleged-fraud-case-id5257339.html
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