The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit filed by Senator Gilbert Nnaji (PDP/Enugu East), seeking to stop the police from investigating the alleged forgery of the 2015 Senate Standing Order, as ridiculous, laughable and mere waste of time of the court.

The Senate Rules being investigated by the police was allegedly used for the election of the leadership of the 8th National Assembly, which produced Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively.

The IGP, while responding to the suit, on Tuesday, through a counter-affidavit, said no court of law in country has powers to stop the force from performing its statutory functions of investigating crimes.

He said nobody in the country, including the 74 political office holders covered by provision of section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), is immune from investigation.

Aresa argued that the principal officers of the Senate have no constitutional or statutory immunity from investigation.

The police boss urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction, adding that investigating the allegation of forgery in the Senate could only strengthen the integrity of the upper legislative house and its leadership.

The police, while confirming the Senate Standing Order 2015 (as amended) was forged, said in its counter affidavit: “The present Senate has not enacted any standing orders yet.

“As at the time of inauguration of this present Senate, no standing orders had been made.
“Till date, no such standing orders have so far been made.

“The practice is that at inauguration, the incoming Senate uses the standing orders of the preceding Senate. The immediate past Senate did not amend the 2011 standing orders and the 2011 standing orders have not yet been amended.”

The document, which was deposed to by Joshua Yohanna, of the Legal/ Prosecution department, Force CIID, further averred as follows:

“I know that the plaintiff cannot prove that the so called 2015 standing orders were passed by the preceding Senate. “That the so called 2015 standing orders were never made nor passed by the immediate past Senate.

It said plaintiff knows that the present Senate leadership was not in a position to have passed the 2015 Senate Standing orders before its inauguration.

“The plaintiff knows that it is only after inauguration that the current Senate could pass the Senate standing orders.
“That what he is bandying about is not an authorised Senate standing order.”

The police then urged Justice Gabriel Kolawole, who was the presiding judge, to throw out the suit as it simply constituted a nuisance.

It argued that the matter at hand raise issues of criminality and the police owe Nigerians the duty to unearth the truth behind the allegations of forgery.

The police stated that every Nigerian citizen could be investigated for crime as there is no immunity against investigation in all civilized countries, Nigeria inclusive.

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Let the law take its course. Nigerians hate forgery and cheating.

Ghen ghen

Apc machinations! They will gather and Surely they will fall: hit like If u think Saraki/Ekweremadu is unimpeachable.
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Its high time for PDP and its faithful to unlock its arsenal in a view to counter this orchestrated sinister by the APC camp.

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Sure. Wrongdoing by whoever should be investigated.

How many times will these APC clowns recycle these stale news

If the IG like let him confirm,he can even disfirm the forgery the fact remains that Saraki/Ekweremadu will remain senate prersident/DSP till 2019

cccxxiii:
Let the law take its course. Nigerians hate forgery and cheating.

Exactly!

chukwudi44:
If the IG like let him confirm,he can even disfirm the forgery the fact remains that Saraki/Ekweremadu will remain senate prersident/DSP till 2019

You are irritably idiotic for supporting forgery because you believe that's the only way members of your ethnic group can ever ascend to any form of relevance.

You have a primitive standard of reasoning.
I spit on your flat bald head!

You see. In our new Nigeria, no-one is impune to justice.

Let them be tried, if found guilty they should be immediately impeached.

Nigeria will be great again.

God bless PMB.
God bless Nigeria.

EdCure:

You are irritably idiotic for supporting forgery because you believe that's the only way members of your ethnic group can ever ascend to any form of relevance.

You have a primitive standard of reasoning.
I spit on your flat bald head!

The same way you supported the illiterate from Daura when he forged SSCE statement of result to contest the march 28 polls

I dont want to come back and see part 2 of this story oo,cos news for nairaland be like pencil and eraser.

The IG have spoken, let the wailers bow.

The Acting Senate President and his Deputy will be reduced to nothing, then disgraced out of office.

Even if Saraki/Ekweremadu presents NEPA bill as senate 2015 rule book,they will remain SP/DSP till 2019

this would be the worst senate in the history of Nigeria . thanks to APC

this would be the worst senate in the history of Nigeria . thanks to APC. 5 months after election the senate haven't settled down for what they were elected to do.

He just saved his meal ticket! Nice job

News from a dubious website is not a news, but a mere beer parlour gist.

chukwudi44:
The same way you supported the illiterate from Daura when he forged SSCE statement of result to contest the march 28 polls

Gosh! You are so pathetic. U're not evolved enough to be reasoned with!

Get the help you so desperately need or crawl back to your hole and manage your idiocy!

EdCure:

Gosh! You are so pathetic. U're not evolved enough to be reasoned with!

Get the help you so desperately need or crawl back to your hole and manage your idiocy!

Shut up bloody hypocrite!!! I did not hear you condemn the Daura illiterate WAEC certificate scammer.

chukwudi44:
If the IG like let him confirm,he can even disfirm the forgery the fact remains that Saraki/Ekweremadu will remain senate prersident/DSP till 2019

And who are you in the scheme of things?

Are you really programmed to engage and support illegalities even when open to the world to see?

PassingShot:

And who are you in the scheme of things?

Are you really programmed to engage and support illegalities even when open to the world to see?

You are a bloody hypocrite!! Go to court and plead your useless case!!! I didn't see you condemn Buhari's certificate forgery.

BTW the 2015 senate rule is a new document and was neither forged nor amended

Let the law take its course

chukwudi44:


You are a bloody hypocrite!! Go to court and plead your useless case!!! I didn't see you condemn Buhari's certificate forgery.

BTW the 2015 senate rule is a new document and was neither forged nor amended

What Buhari's certificate forgery? That one Chukwudi or FFK or Olisa Metuh alleges someone forges a certificate makes it so? Use your brain boy!

The facts:
1. The police have established that there was a forgery of the Senate Standing Order

2. The Ministry of Justice will very likely affirm that it's a criminal offence and therefore prosecute those involved.

3. If that route does not lead to desired end, expect some senators armed with the police report to go to court.

Summary: Saraki and Ekweremandu are living on borrowed time.

EdCure:



You have a primitive standard of reasoning.
I spit on your flat bald head!

Such is uncalled for. Just make your point in a pragmatic manner. The fact is that this is a case of ethics. Whoever submitted the petition was wrong and should have resulted to dialogue than taking this to an external party. At the end of the day this matter will be settled politically and that is the fact

Oya Saraki bobo, o fe lo kirikiri bobo...

Between Saraki and his wife, I wonder who is going to land in prison first.

By the way, when Saraki is in prison, who's going to bring food for him considering that his wife would also be serving her own sentence?

Hmm

Watching the scene from the mango tree, with cold alomo and orijin

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The end of the Turn coat Traitor is finally here.

Barcanista and his goons, oya food don ready o. come and defend your brother from another party.

APC the change we've been clamoring for. The end pf impunity is here.

chukwudi44:
Even if Saraki/Ekweremadu presents NEPA bill as senate 2015 rule book,they will remain SP/DSP till 2019

Your stupidity is made in heaven.smh

Yawns..