The Nigeria Police yesterday said
they are yet to arrest the man who grabbed and made away with the Senate mace
in April.
A commissioner of police, Habu
Sani, said this when he appeared before members of the National Assembly ad-hoc
committee investigating the incident on Tuesday.
According to him, “there were two
investigations which have yielded an interim report; one initiated at the
police headquarters and a second at the FCT command of the force.”
Although the police announced it
had arrested six suspects in connection to the invasion, Sani said, “the arrow
man, who grabbed the mace is still at large.”
The chairman of the investigative
committee, Bala Na’Allah, had said the committee would like to know the present
status of the suspects who were arrested by the command but transferred to the
force headquarters.
Mr Na’Allah read from the
National Assembly station diary, calling the names of the suspects and items
found on them.
“But the focus at that time (day
of the theft) was for us to get the suspects. Unfortunately, the alleged
suspects were taken by the command headquarters with the senator, Omo-Agege,
that was said to be responsible for bringing some of the hoodlums.
“As at that time, from the other
side of the force investigation, we have not seen the suspects. They are still
in the custody of the police command and we allow them to carry out some
preliminary investigation before transferring the case while we continue to
give the technical and special attention to unravel the theft or possible
removal of the Senate mace.
“Since the command is conversant
with the environment, they were allowed to continue the investigation.
“What we have is that on that
fateful day, a suspended senator made himself available at the plenary on the
ground that the senate has no right to suspend him. Alongside with him, there
are people who claimed to be his aide and assisted him to enter the chamber.
While they were there, an incident happened that a non-member of the Senate
took the mace out.
“The only aspect we needed to go further is
trying to see the link between them and the removal. As at the time they were
arrested, the mace was not recovered from them, rather, it was recovered
outside. That means, if the number with the statement by the clerk that they
are five and we have six suspects. That means the number he saw may be more
than that. It means we have to expand and that is what we are doing,” he said.
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