Offa Robbery : Saraki Response to Police Claims
The attention of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola
Saraki, has been drawn to a story circulating online and apparently
derived from a Press Conference addressed by the Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), Moshood Jimoh, linking him (Saraki) to the Offa
robbery.
Dr. Saraki will want the entire public
to disregard this claim as a baseless allegation and another ploy by
the Police to implicate him by all means.
"Let
it be known that there is no way I could have been associated with
armed robbery against my people. When the Offa robbery incident
happened, I was the first top public official to pay a visit to the
place and right there in the palace of the traditional ruler, I put a
call through to this same Mr. Ibrahim Idris, the IGP, requesting him to
make certain specific security arrangements as demanded by the people.
"Members
of the public will remember that on May 16, 2018, I alerted the Senate
about the information passed on to me by my State Governor, Dr.
Abdulfatai Ahmed, over a plot by the Inspector General of Police, Mr.
Ibrahim Idris, to frame me up by getting some suspected cultists
arrested in Ilorin to implicate me. It is believed that the timely
leakage of the plot in that case aborted the use of the suspected
cultists to implicate me. Now, it is the Offa bank robbery suspects that
are about to be used.
"This plot is concocted
to embarrass me and, in the mind of the IGP, it is his own response
after his refusal to honour the invitation by the National Assembly,
headed me, for him to come and offer explanations on the rampant
killings and violence across the country.
"Like
the earlier one, this frame-up will also fail as I hereby state
categorically that I have no link with any band of criminals.
"As
a person who has utmost respect for the rule of law and all
constitutional institutions, when the invitation from the Police is
formally extended to me, I will be ready to honour it without any delay.
"It
is however sad that this abuse of the criminal investigation process
aimed at intimidating and over-overawing the legislature, thereby
obstructing it from doing its work, is a big threat to our democracy ",
the Senate President stated.
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