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The
outgoing Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dalhatu Tafida, is
currently on a thank you tour of some cities before his tenure ends on August
15. So far, he has visited Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle and
Belfast.
Last
weekend, he also visited Birmingham where he spoke with the Nigerian community.
One story
which Tafida addressed was the alleged refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to
ride in a Rolls Royce from the Heathrow Airport when visiting Britain as a
president- elect in May 2015.
According
to Tafida, the president did not turn the offer because it was not made to him.
“The
story is not true. It didn’t happen. I went to the airport to receive him right
from the plane.
I took
him to where he stayed and we left back to Nigeria together.
He rode
from the airport with me in my official car, which is a bullet proof Mercedes
Benz (marked FGN1).
To God
who made me, Buhari did not refuse anything we gave him.
That was
what I gave him for the six days he spent. Even, when he took over, I called
him, I spoke to him.
Buhari is
my brother,” said Tafida, who has been high commissioner for eight years.
Tafida
said that even though the High Commission has a Rolls Royce, “we didn’t send
rolls Royce to pick Buhari”.
Another
revelation made by Tafida was that more than £5 million of stolen funds
recovered from the funds stolen by former Bayelsa State Governor Dieprieye
Alamieyeseigha was handed back to the state government in 2012.
He
disclosed that the money was received from the British authorities and handed over
to two government officials from Bayelsa State, who came to London for the
transfer.
He told
his audience that the money was lodged a Bayelsa State government account with
the London branch of First Bank Plc.
Alamieyeseigha,
who was impeached, tried and convicted, got a presidential pardon in March 2013
– courtesy of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
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