3 Police Officers Arrested For Helping Farouk Lawan

While Nigerians were made to believe that the embattled Chairman of the House of Reps Ad-hoc committee that investigated the fuel subsidy scam, Hon. Farouk Lawan spent Thursday and Fruday night in police custody, the controversy was the case. The Mr. Integrity, from what The Juristlaws gathered, was busy committed another offence by flouting the rules of detention, in connivance with three serving police officers.

Three policemen consisting of a superintendent and corporals have been detained for illegally taking Farouk to his residence in Apo, Abuja, at night and returned to custody very early in the morning on both days in violation of custodial rules and regulations. The matter came to the open on Monday when investigators observed that the suspect did not spend Thursday and Friday nights in police custody. The Juristlaws also gathered that the Commissioner in charge of the Special Task Force, Ali Ahmadu, who discovered the security breach, reported the incident to the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.

The IG immediately ordered the detention of the policemen. “The three policemen are now in detention for flouting police rules on handling of suspects in detention and they are going to pay for it. The officers are saying that they acted on an instruction from a superior officer, who has disowned them.”