Ebun Francis|
The Nigeria police force, on Thursday, said Senate President Bukola Saraki still has a case to answer over his alleged relationship with the gang of robbers that killed over 100 in Offa, Kwara state, earlier in the year.
The Senate president had in a statement last week claimed that Mohammed U.E, director, public prosecution of the federation absolved him of any crime in the said robbery incident in a letter to IGP Ibrahim Idris.
But Jimoh Moshood, Force headquarters spokesman, in a statement, said the prosecution never absolved Saraki of the allegations, it only called for further investigations.
The statement read, “The DPP advice did not exonerate the Senate President, it only called for further investigations into the matter.”
“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 8 am 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.”
“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.”