Osun Police, Attorney-General clash over detention of SSG

The Osun State Police Command and the Osun State Government person offered contrasting accounts of the constabulary cognition astatine the residence of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Teslim Igbalaye, with some sides defending their positions arsenic investigations proceed ahead of the August 15, governorship election.

In a connection issued on Friday, the Police Command said the cognition conducted connected July 29, was based connected credible quality and ongoing investigations into suspected transgression activities, portion the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwole Jimi-Bada, had earlier questioned the legality and justification for the raid and the detention of the SSG aft helium voluntarily reported to the Force Headquarters.

Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi successful the connection said the Nigeria Police Force remained a nonrecreational and non-partisan instauration committed to enforcing the instrumentality without fearfulness oregon favour. 

He said the cognition was “neither politically motivated nor directed against immoderate idiosyncratic due to the fact that of his bureau oregon governmental affiliation but was undertaken successful effect to intell...