A 15-year- old Aisha Sanusi has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to use his good offices to order the Inspector General of Police to release her father Malam Sanusi Mohammed Inuwa who has been in the police custody under a dehumanizing condition for no just cause.
Miss Aisha wrote an open letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari on her Facebook page and this attracted so many comments, reporters contacted her and heard her story.
On arrival at NICON quarters, Sokoto State, reporters sought audience with the brave and devastated young girl in her early 15 and the mother who was laying down sick and could barely notice any action.
According to Aisha, trouble started on Sunday, 16th May 2021 when some able-bodied men came looking for her father, Mal. Sanusi who happens to be a journalist (Publisher) and business man, who publishes Daily Focus Newspaper.
“My father received them, but they said he was under arrest. He asked them for what offence, and they said until he gets to Abuja.
“They took my father to Abuja by road and detained him at STS Abuja; the IGP Special Tactical Squad that specializes in catching kidnappers, armed rubbers, bandits from May 16th till 18th on the orders of one DSP Hamza Galadima, whom the police claimed as complainant, who had business deals with my father.
“Infact, my father told me that DSP Hamza Galadima purchased 10 plots of land from his company Cowries Alliance but made a staggered payment of 8 plots beginning around October or November 2020 totaling 10 million Naira, but wants to take full possession of 10 plots instead of 8 plots he paid for.
“It was at this juncture they had serious disagreement leading to DSP Hamza Galadima CSO to the IGP threatening, and my father also petitioned the IGP to caution and investigate him, which was published on his newspaper; Daily Focus.
“This publication angered DSP who ordered his arrest and perpetual detention using the IGP STS division, Abuja.
“My father didn’t commit any crime to warrant his detention at STS; former SARS police division.
“As I am speaking with you, he has spent more than 34 days in the cell with suspected hardened criminals because he was arrested again by the same man who led the others on Saturday, May 29 in the night.
“Initially, they came like kidnappers and bandits without proper identity.
“The men beat up my father, my uncle, my mother and myself. I was slapped more than twice, my mother pushed down on the floor, our doors shattered, properties destroyed, my uncle bundled into the car along side my father, but they later released my uncle.
“This has brought shame to my family, because people in the estate and around the vicinity now see my father as a criminal. My mother’s health has worsened.
“I want President Buhari and other well-meaning Nigerians to come to my father’s rescue. Because DSP Hamza Galadima will never be the IGP’s CSO forever, and he is using his office to dehumanize and maltreat my father. He forgot that Allah owns him and placed him in that position.
We have done everything humanly possible to secure his release but DSP Hamza Galadima refused, some of his colleagues have talked to him but he refused.
That was why I wrote to President Buhari in tears, using my Facebook page so that he will help me release my father and carry out investigation to know what really happened.