Police and justice ministry ‘differ’ on Senate forgery report

There seems to be some confusion about who has the police’s final report on the Senate document that’s been in the news lately.

Police have been investigating whether the Senate Standing Orders 2015 was forged as alleged.

Punch reports that the police insisted on Tuesday that they had sent the report to the Ministry of Justice for possible prosecution of suspects, but a ministry official told Punch they have not received the report.

Another source said police has not returned the report to the ministry.

The police sent an initial report to the office of the Attorney General of the Federation for proper legal advice but the AGF office sent the report back to the police, asking them to conduct a better investigation.

In the initial report, the police confirmed that a group of senators had criminally amended the Senate Standing Orders 2011 to produce the 2015 edition.

But the Directorate of Public Prosecutions of the Federal Ministry of Justice asked for more information on the senators that allegedly amended the document.

With the whole going back and forth between the AGF and the police, the whereabouts of the final police report now appears unknown.

“The police have not responded to the inquiry by the ministry and the DPP yet. If they have responded, maybe their response is on its way,” a top ministry source said.

But the Police Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said that the police had responded to the ministry’s inquiry.

“We have sent to them (Ministry of Justice) the letter; I can’t remember the exact day but I’m sure we have sent it and we have been cooperating with them to ensure speedy prosecution of the case,” he said.

The Director of Information in the justice ministry, Charles Nwodo, said he was not aware of any development on the case. “I don’t know anything about the case,”’ he said.

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