Offa Robbery: Impeachment threat fails to stop Police, as 2 more suspects indict Senate President

*Senate President still under investigations – Police

*Nigerians in Canada warn NASS against gang-up against Buhari

*Tell Police not to be discouraged by NASS’ blackmails, threats

*If involvement of Saraki is frame-up, then involvement of son of Afenifere leader is frame-up, Respondent mock critics of Government, Police

“Nigerians both home and abroad condemn the action of the NASS members that ganged up against the president because President Muhamadu Buhari gives the police free hand to do their work without undue interference from his office, so that there will be peace in the country and justice will always prevail.”

Nigeria appears to be taking a walk out of the box as, against the usual practice where ‘order from above’ would block investigations into certain crimes in the past, Tuesday’s open conspiracy by Senate and House of Representatives threatening to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over certain crimes allegedly involving some of their top offices being investigated by the Nigerian Police Force has failed to stop the foremost security agency.

This is coming as Senate President Bukola Saraki has once again been indicted by two more of the arrested suspects of the Offa bank robbery.

The Nigeria Police Force said the Senate President is still under investigation after the suspects indicted him in their confessional statements on Wednesday.

Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, addressing journalists, in Abuja, on Wednesday, said the two suspects were arrested in connection with the robbery and their confessional statements indict Saraki.

The Police claimed that the arrested suspects had confessed to being political thugs for the Senate President and that they accompanied Senator Saraki to the palace of the traditional ruler of Offa, Olofa of Offa on a condolence visit after the robbery.

Saraki had earlier been indicted by five of the Offa bank robbery suspects who confessed to the crime on Sunday.

The five gang leaders claimed that they were political thugs of the Senate President and the Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed.

Moshood, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), added that Saraki was further indicted as the five gang leaders paraded on Sunday celebrated with Senator Saraki during his daughter’s wedding as they appeared in the same outfit (Aso Ebi) with the wife of the Senate President.

The gang leader, Akinnibosun, however, insists that they are only political thugs to the Senate President and that he had no knowledge that they perpetrated the criminal act.

The Senate President, however, denied the allegations as he said on Sunday that he had no link with criminals.

Saraki also described the allegations as “baseless” and “another ploy by the Police to implicate him by all means.”

In the meantime, President of Canada-based Battles Against Corruption in Nigeria (BACIN), Mr. Waheed Seriki, has called on the Nigerian Police not to allow the conspiracy of lawmakers of Bukola Saraki/Yakubu Dogara-led Nigerian National Assembly to put them off tract in their efforts to rid the country of politicians’ created insecurity in the country.

Seriki in a statement from the Canadian capital city of Ontario, Wednesday, said if all Nigerians had agreed that insecurity and corruption are major impediments to national economic development and growth, that it would be out of place for Saraki, Dogara, who he said were only fronting for the Olusegun Obasanjo and company, to think that certain personalities would be treated as sacred cows in the effort of the Muhammadu Buhari Administration to rid the country of those impediments for the good of the nation and the citizens.

“The members of Nigerian National Assembly are plotting to remove President Muhamadu Buhari because police invited Senate President Bukola Saraki in connection with his indictment by five of the arrested robbers involved in the robbery of five banks and killing of 33 innocent citizens including nine police officers in Offa, Kwara State.

“These law makers are becoming arrogant. They feel they are above the law and so that the police does not have the right to investigate any allegation leveled against their members.

“Nigerians both home and abroad condemn the action of the NASS members that gang up against President Muhamadu Buhari because he gives the police free hand to do its work without undue interference from his office, so that there will be peace in the country and justice will always prevail.”

Also speaking, a respondent asked to react to the claim of frame-up by Saraki and his supporters particularly in the opposition, said mocked the critics.

He said, “If they are saying that it is frame-up by the Buhari’s government and the Nigeria Police to punish Saraki and some other politicians over what they themselves terms as holding contrary opinions, we should also ask them if the involvement of a son of an Afenifere active leader (names withheld) in the crime is also a frame-up.  If the innocent Baba has accepted his fate over his unruly son dragging his name, what manner of leadership do we have in Saraki and all of those that are threatening heaves and earth over his invitation by the Police?” He said.