MAD O!! Nigerian Minister Orders Police To Interrogate Lawyer For Demanding His Investigation On Corrupt Practice
MAD O!! Nigerian Minister Orders Police To Interrogate Lawyer For Demanding His Investigation On Corrupt Practice
The Nigeria Police has called Pelumi Olajengbesi, National Coordinator of Coalition of Public Interest Lawyers and Advocates, for questioning on the orders of Minister of State for Mining and Steel, Mr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah.
Olajengbesi had asked the police to re-open and investigate the minister on allegations of gross corrupt practices and financial crimes levelled against him.
Ogah was accused by one Mrs Bridget Adeosun, Managing Director of Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited, who submitted a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, claiming that the minister forged her signature on a document to validate a non-existent Memorandum of Understanding between his company, Masters Energy Oil and Gas, and Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited sometime in 2011.
The police had charged Ogah to court and withdrew the case thereafter the EFCC arrested and interrogated him but the case was swept under the carpet.
Angered by Olajengbesi’s request for the case to be revisited, the minister petitioned the police demanding that the lawyer be arrested.
The lawyer disclosed that he honoured the invitation of the police and was released on self-recognisance.
He said,
He stated that he cannot be bullied into silence over this matter as what was right must not be defeated by a display of cowardice to the status of the accused.
He added,
He noted that the spotlight and attention is therefore on the EFCC and Nigeria Police Force to act decisively and without prejudice on the allegations and verifiable material facts before it on this matter in order to restore sanity to the system and shore up public trust.
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