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Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday disclosed that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim kpotun Idris, is plotting to implicate him in a felony offence.
Saraki stated he was reliably advised by his state governor, Ahmed Abdulfatah that the IGP has ordered for the instant switch of felony suspects to Abuja with the ulterior motive to implicate him and the state authorities.
Speaking at plenary, the Senate President stated: “Last night time, my state governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me a data at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for a number of weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to start beneath the state regulation based mostly on the recommendation of the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, and the Ministry of Justice have been ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.
“According to the data obtainable to the governor, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim directed the Commissioner of Police in Kwara state to instantly switch the boys to the power headquarters. The plan, because the governor was made to grasp is that, beneath duress, the suspects can be made to change the statements they already made in Ilorin. They will then be made to implicate the Kwara state authorities, and particularly, myself, of their new assertion.
“This plot is a part of the technique by the IGP to settle scores over the declaration by this honourable chamber that he's not certified and competent to carry any public workplace, inside and out of doors the nation and that he's an enemy of Nigerian democracy based mostly on his ordinary disrespectful conduct in the direction of lawful authorities.
“In my very own view, this plot is an act of desperation, blackmail, intimidation, abuse of workplace and crude ways aimed toward turning our nation into a police state the place high officers can't be made to obey the regulation, comply with due course of and topic themselves to constituted authorities.
“I want to bring this dangerous development to the attention of all of you my colleagues, the entire country and the international community so that you can be aware of the level of impunity in our country and the danger it constitutes to our democracy.”