The police have arrested and
detained four of its personnel and one NSCDC personnel on duty when the alleged
assassination attempt on Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, took place.
Jimoh Moshood, police spokesman,
said on Wednesday that the officers were being investigated.
Moshood said there was no
cover-up by the police in the investigation of the crime.
“The four policemen and one
personnel of the NSCDC on duty at the residence of the deputy senate president
at the time of the incidence have been arrested and detained,” he said.
He said it was not correct that
the police responded after seven hours when the incident happened.
The spokesman said further
investigation shows that the incident was not an assassination attempt on the
life of Ekweremadu.
“Update on further investigation
did not reveal assassination attempt but a burglary attempt,” he said.
He said the investigation carried
out so far showed that the suspects in the case did not have an idea that the
residence belongs to the deputy senate president.
Moshood said efforts are being
intensified to arrest the second suspect, Dan Ali, who escaped from the scene
of the crime.
Speaking to journalists, the
principal suspect, Mohammed Yusuf, 25, said they only went there to steal and
not to assassinate him.
“We did not go to the residence
of Ekweremadu to assassinate him or anybody in the house,” he said.
He said he has been into the act
of stealing for five years without using a gun, adding that his colleague (Dan
Ali) escaped while he was caught.
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