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Senate declares 2017 budget documents missing

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April 27 2017
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The Senate, on Wednesday, alleged that the Nigeria Police has stolen all relevant documents needed to process and passage the 2017 Budget.

Subsequently, the Upper Legislative Chamber has directed the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) , Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to immediately return those documents and a computer which were taken away from the official residence of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Sen. Danjuma Goje.

Adopting a presentation made by Sen. Goje regarding the invasion of his residence last week, by officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), the Senate asked the Police to tender a public apology to the National Assembly in addition to returning all the document.

Senate President Bukola Saraki disclosed that the Police had informally told the Senate Committee on Police Affairs that the operation in Goje’s house was carried out based on a wrong information from a whistle blower.

Saraki, however, insisted that the Senate would not take that excuse as he declared that an immediate official explanation must be provided to the Senate on the operation.

“This matter is very serious, just as Senator Goje has said. It is now over five days with no statement or comments from the Police to tell us why this raid was done or to tell us where these files which are very important to the appropriation process.

“Sadly, I must tell you informally that the chairman of the Police Committee told me this morning (yesterday) that the Police are saying that it has something to do with a whistle blower. If it has to do with a whistle blower, then the whistle blower misled them.

“If a whistle-blower misled them, I think that this matter that has come out publicly like this to embarrass a Senator should be well handled. I think the Police, like in a civilised society, needs to come out and accept responsibility.

“If somebody has given you any wrong information, tell the public what you are doing with that person and if it is an intelligence officer that got the house wrong, come out and tell us. For five days now, nothing. I think it is unfortunately.

“I also got an information that the House of Representatives has also set up an adhoc committee on this matter and this committee that is set up should work closely with the House, particularly to ascertain the circumstances surrounding why they went to Senator Goje’s house.

“If truly it was a whistle blower and he gave them wrong information which is what the IG is telling them, what are they doing about that  wrong information? Have they come out to make a public apology for this wrong raid?

“These are issues that the committee would look into and the files that are still in Police custody which Goje has told us is affecting the works before us, also needs to be brought publicly and formally to him because it was taken publicly.”

This is even as the Senate announced the establishment of an adhoc committee to begin an immediate investigation into the police operation.

The adhoc committee which has Senator Jibril Barau (APC, Kano State) as chairman, also includes Senators Isa Misau (APC, Bauchi State), Chukwuka Utazi (PDP, Enugu), David Umoru (APC, Niger State).

The adhoc committee was also mandated to investigate the alleged assassination attempt of Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi State)

Briefing the Senate earlier, Goje said the policemen took N18 million in addition to $19,000 and four thousand Saudi Riyadh from his house after the operation.

“In addition, they also took my laptop and to make matters worse they took 18 files from my office. I am so traumatized now and I don’t know which files is missing, which files is available now. Some of these files have to do with the work I am doing.

“Like I told you, we are holding a meeting on the budget that last Thursday that they came. So from Thursday to now we have not been able to meet because some of the papers are not around, many of us are traumatised, my house as a politician is a beehives of activities; people are coming from all over the country to sympathise with me. I have no time to sit and from today we are trying to start sitting again as appropriation committee to see what we can do with the budget.”

Goje continued: “I want to apologise to my colleagues that we could not keep to the timetable you gave us to lay the budget yesterday (Tuesday) and to get it passed (Wednesday); and I think it is not our own fault, it is the fault of the police because the police interfered with the whole of the budget process and I hope Nigerians will not turn out to blackmail the national assembly because the process were truncated by the police.”

Meanwhile, as at the time of filing in this report, the embattled IGP, Ibrahim, was still meeting privately with the Senate President, Saraki, where it was learnt that he was in his office to tender an unofficial apology over the invasion. – The Sun.

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