President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has reacted to the case of Zainab Aliyu, the student incriminated in drug-related matters and being detained by Saudi Arabian authorities.<\/p>\n
Zainab Aliyu, a student of Maitama Sule University, Kano, who travelled for Lesser Hajj in Dec. 2018 was detained by the Saudi Arabia authorities for allegedly being in possession of a banned substance.<\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Mr Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to immediately intervene in the case of Zainab Aliyu.<\/p>\n
Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora matters, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made this disclosure in a statement made available to DAILY POST by her media aide, Mr. Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Monday.<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cPresident Muhammadu Buhari gave the directive immediately the matter was brought to his attention about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy office has been working with the AGF as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reacting, Onochie claimed that some Nigerians at the Airport deliberately planned and foisted pain on Zainab\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
In a tweet on Tuesday, Onochie wrote: \u201cWhat Ms Zainab Aliyu and her family are going through now, cannot be imagined. Horrendous!<\/p>\n
\u201cDisheartening is that some Nigerians at an Airport deliberately planned and foisted this pain on Zainab. Evil<\/p>\n
\u201cMany Nigerians may have been executed in this way. My prayers are with Zainab.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has reacted to the case of Zainab Aliyu, the student incriminated in drug-related matters and being detained by Saudi Arabian authorities. Zainab Aliyu, a student of Maitama Sule University, Kano, who travelled for Lesser Hajj in Dec. 2018 was detained by the Saudi Arabia authorities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[97,372,235,570],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-buhari","tag-kano","tag-president","tag-saudi-arabia"],"yoast_head":"\n