…Solicit assistance on information
From MOLLY KILETE, Abuja
Force Headquarters of the Nigerian Police in Abuja yesterday maintained that Chairman of the Pension Task Team (PTT), AbdulRasheed Maina, is still a wanted man, appealing to members of the public who have information that could lead to his arrest, to furnish the police.
This is coming just as Senate Wednesday warned that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar, risks a vote of-no-confidence if he fails to carry out the warrant of arrest order of Maina, issued by Senate President David Mark to the IGP.
Mark had last month signed the warrant which the IGP allegedly failed to execute. Consequently, it has mandated its Committee on Police Affairs to summon him “to give reasons why he did not act on the warrant issued by the President of the Senate.” But Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, said the police were irrevocably committed to discharging their statutory responsibility or arresting Maina, and produce him before the Senate.
“The Nigeria Police Force remains irrevocably committed to finding him and as soon as we lay our hands on him, we will arrest him and take him before the Senate as had been mandated in that warrant of arrest,” Mba said. Mba, while answering reporters’ questions shortly after the commissioning of the Police Insurance Transit Camp, also denied reports that the embattled Maina was still going about with mobile police personnel and challenged anyone with such proof to come up with it.
He said, “if you are conversant with policing tradition, you will understand that the declaration of any person wanted is usually necessitated by a need.
“In this instant, he was declared wanted because he went into hiding and made it difficult for the force to execute a warrant of arrest that was legitimately issued on him.” According to him, “Maina has no police officer in his entourage to the best of my knowledge.
And again, media practitioners are responsible members of the society and if you recall the press release that we issued over declaring Maina a wanted man, we did say that if any citizen have information that could help us in executing that order, the person should please, pass that information to the appropriate authority. “So if you have information that could help us in executing this warrant of arrest, we will be glad to receive it from you.
On the issue of Maina taking the Senate to court over undue harassment, Mba, said, “we will not go into those things, those things have nothing to do with us, we will not be pulled into unnecessary controversies. “
But the point remains that the National Assembly represented by the Senate, has issued a warrant of arrest and that warrant has mandated us to arrest him and we are focusing on that task and we are irrevocably committed to discharging that statutory responsibilities,” he said.
Sorry maina the hunter have become d hunted whot a pity.
It is time for The Nigerian Police to thoroughly reorganize itself and also think through their statements before going public with such statements. It is laughable for Police to say that Nigerians should give them information on Maina whereas the same Police provided him with about 27 policemen guarding him. Can the Inpector General of Police tell Nigerians that he is not aware that Maina was on the entourage of Jonathan a few days ago. Can the FCT police comissioner come out and tell Nigerians that he didnot see Maina personaly on Monday that GEJ came back from his oversea’s trip? Nigerians are not morons. We know that the Nigerian Police untill yesterday knew where Maina was because police provided him security. They should stop decieving themselves
@ oge dat is 2 show u dat greater is he dat is in maina, than he that is in d nigerian police force
There are things i read it sounds to me strange &unbelievable,these men in black who call themselves police,do they think that they are more intelligent than other nigerians?Are we policing them or they policing us.It was somebody who assigned police to Maina&it was somebody who ordered for the withdrawl on hearing that warrant of arrest has been placed on him,instead of arresting him immediately.As far as i know the warrant has been issued b4 police withdrawal,police was the last people that saw Maina,but however if the police says nigerians should give them clues,iam telling them that i know where he is&will point my touch for them to effect his arrest.Clues may be longer, as he might have changed position b4 clues get to whoever that needs it.Clues could be true or false,but mine is sure.
we need to improve our intellegent gathering officers. But dnt deceive nigerians, cos we r following d saga.
Let’s not over re-act to the Nigerian Police idiocracy. Nigerians are much more intelligent than they, the police, think. What do you think is responsible for the lack of respect for the police by members of the public? People see them lying point blank, they know they are lying to their teeth, and they watch them making fools of themselves and laugh. How can anyone in his or her right mind now believes them even when they are telling the truth? Just like what Oge and Emman said, the police IGP or the spoke person, CSP Frank Mba, is making fool of himself before the public. Maina was sighted at a function in Abuja weeks age, after the said warrant of arrest and the purported declared wanted order, but no police whispered to either the IGP or the police Commissioner in charge of Abuja that Maina was there to enforce the warrant. Instead, the onus of arresting Maina is now being placed on members of the public or the Senators themselves by asking any one with information as to where the police could lay hands on Maina. This is police who open their cell for arrested boko haram sect to escape their custody and then solicit for public’s help to re-arrest same. This is police who collect lump sum from accused embezzlers of public fund and help them escape arrest or cover up prosecution evidence. This is police who know how to move quickly to arrest kidnappers of prominent Nigerians or their parents but do not know how to arrest kidnappers of the ordinary people kidnapped, or the where about the kidnappers. The issue here is that Nigerians fail to recognize that a full basket of good tomatoes with one rotten tomato on top, will eventually get rotten all together. Nigeria has a very corrupt pdp government on top of our roof for too long, thus the entire system has collapsed; every angle you turn is painful realization that we are in trouble. Let me tell you what’s probably is the offence of Maina. He collects this huge sum of money, and he has not yet remit to the Senators through their Senate committee, their share of the loot. Once that is done the rest is history. Otherwise, how could you tell me that members of the Senate who are privy to the arrest warrant, did not noticed Maina in the outing with the president at Abuja, or that none of them has been able to contact Maina on phone ever since. If truly speaking they want to arrest Maina, why not put bounty on his head, say two million naira, for any one that can help the police to arrest Maina. I bet you, a battalion of mobile police will not be able to prevent the public from doing what the police now want them to do for free. Monkey dey work Baboon dey chop is not being patriotic, it is stupidity. This is why the police is playing hide and seek game with the Senate.
both naija police with the senators….are deceiving themselves