A Federal
High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Senator representing Ogun East
Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to submit himself to the police for
investigation into an allegation of alleged his attempt to murder a member of
the House of Representatives representing Ikene/Shagamu/Remo North Federal
Constituency, Mr. Oladipupo Adebutu.
Delivering
judgment in a suit instituted by Kashamu, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ordered that
the senator must honour all invitations extended to him by the Special
Investigating Panel set up by the Inspector-General of Police to investigate
the allegations contained in Adebutu’s petition.
Justice
Dimgba, who noted that the same special investigating panel had been directed
by the Inspector-General of Police to investigate Kashamu’s counter-petition
against Adebutu, ordered that the police must ensure that the police must
conduct the probe in their facilities and not the houses of private citizens.
But the
judge ruled that any attempt by security agencies, particularly the police and
the Department of State Service to capitalise on the said investigation by
arresting the senator, incarcerating him and transport him to the United States
of America to face illicit drugs charges would be unlawful.
Adebutu had
alleged that the Senator had along with some thugs made attempted to murder him
during Peoples Democratic Party’s convention held in Port Harcourt, Rivers
State on August 16, 2016.
The member
of the House of Representatives then sent a petition dated August 22, 2016,
reporting the alleged attempt on his life to the Inspector General of Police.
But in
response, Kashamu wrote a counter-petition dated August 26, 2016, to the IGP
alleging that Adebutu was instigating the police and the DSS to abduct and
transport him to the US in relation to illicit drugs charges he had been
cleared of and in violation of court orders stopping him from being extradited.
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