Source: http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/aug/19/national-19-08-2008-001.htm


Yar’Adua’s mum robbed
From JACOB EDI, Abuja
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

President Yar’Adua
Photo: Sun News Publishing

   
Burglars from hell took caution to the wind before dawn on Monday as they broke into the family house of President Yar’Adua in Katsina and robbed his ageing mother, Hajiya Dada Yar’Adua in her bedroom.

Daily Sun learnt that the robbers beat the security around the house to have access to the room where the about 80-year-old mother of the president was sleeping through the air conditioner opening.

The president’s mum reportedly did not wake up during the operation, as she was believed to have been hypnotized.
A source in Katsina told Daily Sun that Hajiya Yar’Adua only woke up to find that her room was in disorder and some of her jewelries had been removed.
The source, however, said the thieves were unable to unscramble the safe in the room to have access to its contents.

It was gathered that as early as 5 a.m. during the Muslim early morning Subhi prayers, the president’s younger brother, Alhaji Jafaru had reportedly been informed by his mother about the incident. He in turn went to one of the president’s sisters, Hajiya Hadi, to alert her to the development.
It could not be ascertained at press time whether the president had been informed, but it was gathered that the modest family house in Katsina, where the robbery took place was agog with family members and neighbours who were on hand to show their sympathies.

Monday’s incident has further raised questions about insecurity in the country where robbers walk easily into the bedroom of the mother of the president, even as there had been reported cases of politically-motivated killings in the state.

It was gathered that just last week, chairman of a local government in the state was killed and his body dumped on the street, just as Muktari Kakumi, assistant director, media, Katsina Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (KTARDA) was reportedly murdered in cold blood recently.

Tell me this is a lie, please let me know.

A whole president of a country like Nigeria got her mom robbed?

@folahan,

Tell me this is a lie, please let me know.

A whole president of a country like Nigeria got her mom robbed?

This is not news jo! Didn't someone relieve President Bush of his wristwatch during one of his trips abroad?

ok, over to okiro

Tayo-D:

@folahan,
This is not news jo! Didn't someone relieve President Bush of his wristwatch during one of his trips abroad?

you've got no valid point, this is really schocking, you say bush got robbed? where? definitly not in the united states.

yaradua mothers robbed in his own nation BIG SHOCK _{and too bad, well it will give him an idea of what the typical nigerian faces}

shame on the president and police!!!!!

if the president mum is not safe, who is safe

you've got no valid point, this is really schocking, you say bush got robbed? where? definitly not in the united states.

Stay there thinking the U.S. got it together. People get killed in government places.

I'm sure d security men went 4 dinner as usual.tseew!shameless country!

this is not surposed to be news but if we must make it a news, it is a good news.
at least this will go a long way to prove how good our security system is.
the robbers are fools. if i have access to yar adua's mother, that will be my last crime because the yar adua of a man will pay from his ass.
naija - up uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Tight securities do not prevent ASSASINATIONS

~Lady~:

Stay there thinking the US. got it together. People get killed in government places.

Madam abeg easy ooo i never said Us had it together!!! neither did i imply that " _{jf kennedy}"

but u cant tell me some one like bushes mother can be armed robbed that way, never and if government officials are killed whom do you think takes out the killing? people like you and me? or american gangsters? ask their government perharps its juju

O boy! This is ridiculous. I even heard that Prof Soludo's parents were robbed one december. But these robbers are foolish enough to leave the big fishes (Yaradua and Soludo) and be goin for their old parents. I think this is cowardice,

I didnt know this Nigeria Robbers could go that extreme