COURT ORDER INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE TO ARREST SARAKI
A Grade I Area Court in Aco Estate,
Lugbe,
Abuja, has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris,
to serve a summons on the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to compel him to
face a criminal complaint initiated against him by a private lawyer in respect
of the bloody bank robbery in which many died in Offa, Kwara State, earlier
this year.
The criminal complaint was initiated
by an Abuja-based lawyer and rights activist, Oluwatosin Ojaomo, whose lawyer
told the court on Monday that the IGP had given assurance that the necessary
court papers would be served on the Senate President.
The police had said their
investigations linked Saraki to the kingpin of the robbery operation.
The Senate President is the sole
defendant in the criminal complaint initiated by the private lawyer.
The criminal complaint marked,
CR/196/2018, was said to have been initiated by Ojaomo under Section 89(5) of
the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.
It sought Saraki to be summoned for
allegedly ignoring police invitation to answer to an allegation involving the
investigation of the suspects of the Offa robbery.
The complaint stated that Saraki’s
alleged refusal to honour the invitation amounted to obstructing a criminal
investigation and disobeying a public officer carrying out a lawful
responsibility.
This alleged conduct, it said, was an
offence punishable under Section 136 and 149 of the Penal Code Law.
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