The Kwara State Ministry of
Justice, on Saturday reacted to reports claiming that some murder suspects
recently arrested by the State Police Command in Ilorin and transported to
Abuja, named the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, governor Abdulfattah Ahmed,
as their sponsors.
A report had claimed that alleged
cultists had identified both Saraki and the governor in their confessional
statements.
Reacting, however, to the report,
the State Ministry of Justice insisted that the alleged cultists never
implicated anybody in their confessional statements.
A statement by Jimoh Mumini, the
Director of Public Prosecution, Kwara State Ministry of Justice said the
allegation was a plot to tarnish the image of imminent personalities and the
DPP maintained that the report
was “politically motivated and will definitely fail.”
The statement reads, “The
attention of the Kwara State Ministry of Justice has been drawn to a story
published by an online medium that the suspected cultists arrested and
interrogated by the Police in Ilorin and recommended for trial by the Director
of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but suddenly transferred to Police Headquarters,
Abuja, had in their statement indicted some top personalities.
“We want to state categorically
that there is no iota of truth in the said story. Our belief that the said
story is false arose from the fact that the summary of the statement
voluntarily made by the suspects and on the basis of which they were
recommended for trial in Ilorin is contained in the press statement read by the
Police Commissioner on May 10, 2018. We maintain that there was no portion of
the press statement where the suspects were said to have indicted any top
personality.
“For emphasis, let us restate the
fact that on the basis of the statement obtained from the accused, the Police
had issued a statement read publicly at the May 10 press conference in the
state capital and there was no mention of their naming or implicating any top
government official at the state or federal level.
“The State Ministry of Justice
had in fact filed charges in the High Court against the accused persons and we
stand by the pending charges and the trial process already lawfully initiated
in Ilorin.
“We hereby call on members of the
public to disregard and ignore the publication as the medium on which it
appeared is widely known to suffer credibility problem.
“At no time was any influence,
whatsoever, exerted to pervert the course of justice, nor monetary transaction
or any exchange of pecuniary benefit made between the learned DPP and the
Commissioner of Police with respect to this particular case or any other case
for that matter.
“We boldly state that at no time
ever since the resumption of duties of the Commissioner of Police in charge of
the Kwara State Police Command has there been any opportunity, for the learned
DPP to have any discussion, whatsoever, with him.
“Therefore, all insinuations
relating to undue influence through offer of gratifications or any other means,
made by the discredited online publication are mere figment of the imagination
and misguided attempt by the sponsor of the online medium aimed at tarnishing
the image of the learned DPP, Mr. JIMOH ADEBIMPE MUMINI Esq. This campaign of
calumny against the DPP by the sponsor(s) of the online publication is
politically motivated and will definitely fail.
“The Commissioner of police or
the authors of the defamatory article aimed at tarnishing the image of the
learned DPP are hereby challenged to make public any evidence of any discussion
or transaction, whatsoever, between the Commissioner of Police and the learned
DPP, MR. J.A MUMINI aimed at influencing or subverting the course of justice in
this direction.”
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