Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Umar Mamman Sanda has reacted that the command is still investigating the allegation of threat to life raised by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Barr Yakubu Dogara.
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Reacting to a petition written to the IGP Usman Alkali Baba by Dogara, the commissioner said that as of today, “It is not true and there is no iota of truth in the allegations.”
Speaking with journalists on Sunday vide phone conversation in Hausa, the Police Commissioner said that, “What happened is that, we received discreet information that one of our Police Officers was attempting to sell a rifle, so we went after him. Initially, we have received prior information that he was carrying the rifles inside his car, we went after him, we got him and asked about the owner of the car and he said he is the owner, we searched the car and we discovered the guns.
“When we asked who gave him the guns and he confessed he wanted to sell it, we now asked him, is it our own rifles that you want to sell and he said yes, we arrested him and started investigating him. In the cause of our investigation, he implicated one person with whom they live in the same house.
“In continuation of our investigations of the first person, he said it was someone in Tafawa Balewa who approached him that he is looking for a rifle to buy and that is what prompted him to carry that gun. When he gave us the name of the person, we went and arrested him,” he added.
Sanda narrated further that “when we arrested him, he confessed to us that it is true that he is looking for a rifle to buy because something terrible happened to him, that his house alongside those of others were burned during the last December 2021 incident that occurred following the Baba Peter Gonto memorial anniversary.
“He mentioned names of some people, including that of the former Speaker in connection to the incident, saying that is the reason why he is looking for a rifle to kill him (Dogara), and so, we launched an investigation to that regard.
“One thing with human beings is, if he is guilty, he would not want to admit until you use wisdom, so we have intensified our investigations.
“And on the missing rifle in our armoury, I directed that our armoury be audited and in the course of the audit, we discovered that apart from the two rifles we intercepted, some were not in the armoury and so we have expanded our investigations.”
The CP further said: “Now that I am talking to you, our armoury officer who retired two years ago was arrested the day before yesterday because we have been looking for him and now he is in our custody.
“We were still investigating and we saw that he (Dogara) has written to the IGP and is alleging that we didn’t call to inform him. I can tell you, if not because of what that man said, he would not discover any statement from another person that his life is at stake.”
The Commissioner of Police added that apart from what the man said he was looking for a rifle to kill the former speaker, no other suspect has corroborated his confession, saying “we wouldn’t want to tell the world that this is that and at the end of the day, investigation reveals a different thing.
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