By Mustapha Usman
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, Garba Shehu, has insisted that rodents caused serious damage in the President Muhammadu Buhari’s office, saying black rat can damage everything.
The presidential spokesman caused global media stir when he disclosed that the president would only work from his home office, following damage caused by rodents during the president’s three-month absence.
Speaking to BBC Hausa Service on Friday, Mr Shehu said those who doubted his statement on the damage done to the reticulation of the air-conditioning system by rodents do not know the effect of “beran dinka” (Hausa word for big black rat).
“You just don’t know the effect of this rat,” he told his interviewer, Mohammed Kabir Mohammed.
“People just don’t like the truth. If we did not reveal the actual situation, people will start making different insinuations.”
Mr Shehu also said there is zoo, bushy areas and some wild animals in the villa, from where the rats can sneak into the president’s office.
