Jimoh Moshood, public relations
officer of the Nigeria police force, says Senate President Bukola Saraki still
has a case to answer on his alleged link with suspects arrested over robbery in
Offa, Kwara state.
Moshood said this in response to
a letter dated June 23, 2018, where Mohammed U.E, director, public prosecution
of the federation, wrote to Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP),
saying no evidence linking Saraki to the
suspects.
But Moshood said the prosecution
director did not absolve Saraki of the allegations, it only called for further
investigations.
“The DPP advice did not exonerate
the Senate President, it only called for further investigations into the
matter,” he said in a statement.
“It is in the course of further
investigations into the case that a letter of invitation dated 23rd July, 2018
was sent to the senate president to appear on 24th July, 2018 at 8am before the
Investigation Team at Intelligence Response Team office, Guzape Junction,
Abuja.
“Consequently, the force is
hereby re-affirming that the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki has case to
answer by virtue of the facts that the statements submitted by the Senate
President, Sen. Bukola Saraki earlier to the Investigation Team was not
explicit and detailed enough, and was discovered to require further
clarifications and interrogation, and coupled with the fact the Senate
President, Sen. Bukola Saraki in his statement, claimed that the full text of
the statement of the suspects who indicted him in their confessional statements
to the police was not shown to him.”
He said it is imperative for the
senate president to report to the police to make further statement after
sighting the full text of the statement of the suspects.
“Furthermore, the Force wishes to
inform the media and the public that investigation is still ongoing on the Offa
bank robbery and the indictment against the Senate President from the
confessions of some the arrested principal suspects, and that, there is no political influence or consideration in the
matter.”
Saraki, however, had asked the
IGP to send officers investigating the matter to his office.
At least, 31 persons were killed
in the robbery on April 5, 2018.
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