Nawa ooo: N21 billion Scandal: Senator Saraki secures restraining order against police
Wednesday, April 25, 2012Omoba
To protect his dignity
and prevent further harassment, Senator Bukola Saraki has obtained an interim
injunction restraining the Inspector General of Police, his officers and agents
from threatening to arrest him or infringe on his rights pending the determination
of the substantive suit on Thursday, 26th May 2012.
The motion on notice
was filed at the Federal High Court Abuja and assigned, to Court 4. The motion
on notice and other processes including Originating Summons were filed by his
counsel Lawal Rabana, SAN, and same were served and duly received by the
Commissioner of Police, Legal department at the police force headquarters Louis
Edet house Abuja.
As a law-abiding
citizen, Senator Saraki has decided to seek legal redress to put a stop to what
appears an orchestrated frenzy calculated at smearing his name, assaulting his
dignity and intimidating his person through deliberately garbled accounts and
serial leaks concerning loans granted to a company that he has no relationship
with.
Senator Saraki is indeed
in receipt of a letter from the Police Special anti-Fraud Unit, Lagos, inviting
him to assist its investigations of a case of “conspiracy, forgery and stealing
the sum of N21, 000, 000, 000 (Twenty-One Billion Naira) belonging to Joy
Petroleum Ltd.”
Senator Saraki has
made it clear on many occasions that he has no relations with Joy Petroleum and
wishes to so restate. While taking note of
and displeased with the tendentious attempts to prosecute and persecute him on
the pages of the media, Senator Saraki has asked the court to determine whether
he could be invited by the police to assist in investigating a matter in which
he is not linked and for which no specific allegation has been made against
him.
Senator Saraki wishes
to assure all Nigerians that he has nothing to hide and he remains a
law-abiding citizen but that he also has a responsibility to protect himself
under the law against what increasingly appears a deliberate smear campaign
designed against his person.
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