In a swift reaction to the claim of the Senate President on Friday, the Nigeria Police Force in a statement issued by its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Jimoh Moshood, the personnel attached to him were still intact.

Said Moshood:  “All the Police personnel attached to the person of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, his office and family are intact and all the statutory security protection on the person of the Senate President are also accorded him all the time and there was no complaint from the Senate President before now to the Police on this.”

He explained that contrary to the position of Saraki, police did not give any protection to any political thug or shield any APC thug to go to family quarters of the Senate President in Agbaji, Ilorin and vandalise houses, shops and inflict wounds with machete on three people as claimed by the Senate President.

Stressing that his claim was false, the police added that they did not receive any complaint or report of gunshot and wounding as claimed by the Senate President in other areas he mentioned such as Adewole/Adeta, Ile-otan and ubandawaki/pakata.

The statement by Moshood reads further:  “For avoidance of doubt, there was no complaint reported at any Police division within Ilorin metropolis or any other Police Division on the 10th January, 2019 till today 11th January 2019 of any attack, wounding, shooting and destruction of any property by any individual(s) or any political party on their members.

“However, security within Ilorin metropolis and other locations in Kwara State has been beefed-up to ensure security of all Nigerians living in the state.

“It is pertinent to state that all Police personnel attached to the person of the Senate President, his office and family are intact and all the statutory security protection on the person of the Senate President are also accorded him all the time and there was no complaint from the Senate President before now to the Police on this.

“It is incumbent on the Force to set the record straight and correct the wrong impressions that must have been created in the minds of the general Public and the International Community from the misinformation and misleading account from the Senate President.

“The Inspector General of Police did not try any trick to implicate the Senate President in some criminal charges; the facts are in the public domain about the suspects of the Offa Bank Robbery now being prosecuted who implicated the Senate President in the matter.

“The Nigeria Police Force is hereby assuring all Nigerians that the Nigeria Police Force has no any undisguised hostility to the Senate President or his supporters in Kwara State or to jeopardise or undermine his personal security and that of his immediate and larger family.

“The Force will continue to be apolitical and will ensure adequate security throughout the country for all political parties, their members and supporters before, during and after the 2019 General Election.”

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The deployment followed the order of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

They will operate under Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East.

The deployment was made known on Sunday in Abuja by the Nigeria Police Force spokesman, Mr. Jimoh Moshood, in a statement he issued.

According to him, the deployment was in line with Section 4 of the Police Act and Regulations.

He stressed that the essence of the deployment was to, along with the military, quell the fire of insurgency.

Said he:  “The Police Air-wing Surveillance Helicopters and crews are also deployed to support most of the operations of Operation Lafiya Dole throughout the North East.

“The Nigeria police force is fully committed to the fight against insurgency and will do all it takes in collaboration with the Military to bring a quick end to Boko Haram insurgency and crisis in the Nor​th East.”

Before now, the police have also been part of the fight against terrorism.

No fewer than 2,961 personnel of Police Mobile Force personnel were in Borno in addition to the PMF Squadron deployed in Borno State.

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In the operation, at least, 50 hideouts in three camps belonging to the bandits were destroyed.

The police recovered 500 cattle and 79 sheep.

However, a policeman was killed during the operation.

Spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Jimoh Moshood, who made the disclosure on Friday, said the attack was launched in view of the criminal activities of the bandits in the state.

He said the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, deployed a Police Joint Intervention Team of about 1,000 personnel.

The team, he said, was made up of seven Units of Police Mobile Force (PMF).

He said in addition to the bandits killed, the police had arrested over 85 suspects.

Besides, he disclosed, they had recovered 27 AK-47 rifles and 52 locally fabricated rifles and other dangerous weapons.

He stated that efforts were still being made to intensify the attack on the criminals in the areas.

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In his reaction to the announcement of the death of Adikwu in police custody, Saraki had called on the Presidency to make a thorough inquiry into the case.

But in its reply, the spokesman of the police, Mr. Jimoh Moshood, explained that Adikwu simply slumped and died.

He stated however, that the death of the principal suspect would not stop the police from prosecuting Saraki.

But accusing the police of dodging the issue, Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said when he mentioned in his statement on Wednesday that he had been vindicated, he was not referring to the outcome of a case which is just about  to commence but rather he was pointing to the belated admission by the Police that Adikwu had died in custody, “a fact that was initially denied by the Police when he (Senate President) raised it a few months ago.”

He added that the Police in an alleged cover up of its mishandling of the investigations and their politicisation of the process, had continued to make inconsistent statements and commit more blunders.

“The Police while reacting to our disclosure that the prime suspect had died in custody, caused their spokesman, Moshood Jimoh, to respond that: ‘Michael Adikwu is in police custody in one of the South-west states…helping in the investigation’. The same Police have equally documented the claim that the suspect died during arrest. What a contradiction!

“It is surprising that the Police which initially allowed the said Adikwu to grant interviews to several national newspapers while in custody refused to inform the public that the suspect had died until the Attorney General of Kwara State mentioned it on November 21, 2018 in the course of his address to the High Court in Ilorin while applying to amend the charge sheet,” he stated.

He noted that President Muhammadu Buhari needed to institute inquiry into the death of Adikwu because it had several implications for the country’s legal system and its engagement with the international community which had consistently cited the issues of human rights abuse and extra-judicial killing by security forces as major reasons for their reluctance to sell arms to Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram.

“One of the key issues those of us who have been engaging with the international community on the need for them to support Nigeria in the fight against terrorism in the North-east region through supply of arms, provision of training and other technical aid has been confronting is that of the flagrant abuse of human rights and extra-judicial killing by our security agencies.

“This is an instance of what these international partners complain about. The Presidency should make a point that the present government does not tolerate human rights abuse, extra-judicial killing, politically-motivated criminal investigation and refusal to comply with global best practices by security agencies by instituting an inquiry into the case of the death of this suspect,” he stated.

The Senate President further called for diligent prosecution of the Offa robbery case so that justice can be done to the innocent victims of the April 5 attacks, the suspects facing trial and the state whose peace was disturbed by the sad incident.

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This is the position of the Nigeria Police Force.

According to the spokesman of the police, Jimoh Moshood, who spoke with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the case was that of burglary.

He said that was the much that had so far been gathered from the investigation conducted by the police in the case.

According to Moshood who identified the suspect arrested as Mohammed Yusuf, said a similar invasion was carried out on the residence of Ekweremadu’s neighbour, Haliru Adamu.

Adamu was said to have lost his cell phones and jewellery to the thieves when they entered his residence.

Ekweremadu was, however, lucky as he did not lose any material to the alleged thieves.

“Investigation so far carried out in the incident does not have any link to assassination attempt…

“The suspect has been assisting the police in the investigation into the matter. We have intensified efforts to arrest other suspects who escaped from the crime scene,” Moshood said.

Some armed men were said to have successfully avoided the security men and entered Ekweremadu’s premises on Tuesday, allegedly on an assassination mission.

They were reported to have quietly held his son and forced him to lead them into the senator’s room.

“It was in the ensuing struggle in the Senator’s bedroom that security was alerted, leading to the arrest of one of the assailants with dangerous weapon and housebreaking devices, while the rest managed to escape,” Ekweremadu’s Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu Anichukwu, was said to have stated in a statement he issued.

The Senate also commenced a probe into the case on Tuesday.

Its Committee on Police Affairs was directed to take up the case.

The decision followed the narration of the incident at plenary by Ekweremadu.

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This is as it was announced that members of the sect arrested would be arraigned for terrorism.

The directive of the IGP was relayed on Tuesday by the Force spokesman, DCP Jimoh Moshood, in Abuja.

Said he:  “They are to deal decisively in accordance with the law with the sect and prevent the group from causing breakdown of law and order in those states,” he said.

The IGP, Moshood said, had ordered that the case of those arrested as a result of the clashes in Abuja should be well investigated.

Idris was quoted as warning that the police would not tolerate any lawlessness and disturbance of public peace by any group.

He said:  “The full weight of the law will be applied on perpetrators of violence and lawlessness that can lead to breach of the peace, and law and order anywhere in the country.”

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