The Nigeria police force has
spoken on the house of representatives demand seeking the arrest of one of
President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides for alleged result forgery.
In an interview with TheCable,
Jimoh Moshood, police spokesman, said the demand to arrest Okoi Obono-Obla,
Buhari’s senior special assistant on prosecution, is yet to be carried out
because the police have not been officially informed.
The house had asked Ibrahim
Idris, inspector-general of police, to arrest and prosecute the presidential
aide for allegedly being in possession of a fake West African Examination
Council (WAEC) result.
The lawmakers adopted the
recommendation of one of its committee which said it discovered irregularities
in the O’level result which the presidential aide has, following a petition to
the house by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA).
The presidential aide is said to
have used the result in question to gain admission into the University of Jos
where he studied and subsequently, the Nigerian Law School.
However, nothing has been heard
of the issue since the recommendation was made.
Asked to comment on the issue on
Friday, Moshood told TheCable the force has not received any correspondence
from the national assembly regarding the matter.
“We have not received any
correspondence in that regard. We have not been informed of the development,”
he said.
Asked further if the police had
learnt about the saga, he responded: “What did they say he did? We have not
been contacted.”
Abdulrazak Namdas, spokesman of
the house of representatives, was silent on whether the directive has been
communicated to the police or not.
“It was a resolution. The house
having passed the resolution has done their part,” he said over the
phone.
When the allegations were first
made, Obono-Obla had said they were the outcome of “a hatchet job masterminded
by some members of the national assembly who are under investigation by my
panel” and that “the intention is to smear and ridicule me.”
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