Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police, has denied the claims by Senate President Bukola Saraki that he (Idris) is plotting to frame him up. Durin
Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police, has denied the claims by Senate President Bukola Saraki that he (Idris) is plotting to frame him up. During senate plenary on Wednesday, Saraki said he had been hinted of a plot by Idris to implicate him in the trial of some suspected cultists arrested in Ilorin. He quoted Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara state, as telling him that the IGP ordered that the suspects should be taken to Abuja where their statements would be altered to implicate him and the state government.
“With the information that he has, they would find how to alter their statement already made in Ilorin and try and implicate the state government and particularly myself,” he had said.
The senate them set up a team to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the issue. But the police IG has denied the allegation, describing it as an attempt to divert police investigation into the alleged crimes of the “cultists”. Speaking via a statement issued d, police spokesman, Idris said there is “no iota of truth” in what Saraki said. He, however, admitted that the suspects are to be transferred to Abuja to enable a thorough and discreet investigation into the crime.
According to the police PPRO, Jimoh Moshood via a statement, “It is important to underscore that the statement credited to the Senate President can dissuade and discourage living victims/deceased families of those who must have been killed by this vicious hired assassin gang from coming forward to give evidence against them. The Nigeria Police Force hereby implores members of the general public to disregard and discountenance the claim of plot by the IGP against the Senate President as a ruse, unfortunate and an attempt to divert Police investigation into the killings of more than Eleven (11) innocent people from kwara State and other States of the Federation in the recent past by the killer squad who operate under the guise of a cult group. The Force will leave no stone unturned and will do everything within the ambit of the law to ensure justice in this matter, no matter whose ox is gored.
The IGP has refused to honour the invitation of the senate on three separate occasions. The upper legislative chamber had branded him an enemy of democracy, saying he is unfit to hold any public office.
