Police summoned Saraki for questioning over offa bank robbery ….. I am being framed -Saraki

Nigerian police on Sunday summoned the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki for questioning after members of a criminal gang implicated him following a brutal bank robbery that left 33 people dead.
National police spokesperson Jimoh Moshood said 22 suspects have been arrested over the robbery of six Offa banks, including five ring leaders who alleged Saraki’s involvement in the gang.
“Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki is being invited by the Nigeria Police Force… to answer to the allegations levelled against him from the confessions of the five gang leaders,” Moshood said.
He said the gang leaders confessed to be working for Saraki as “political thugs under the name Youth Liberation Movement a.k.a. ‘Good Boys’.”
JThey also “admitted and confessed to have been sponsored with firearms, money and operational vehicles by the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki and the Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed.”
Moshood stated that a Lexus jeep purportedly owned by Saraki and used during the robberies had been traced to the government office in Ilorin, Kwara’s state capital, and two of the governor’s personal aides had also been arrested.
Meanwhile, the Senate president promised to honour the police summons, but insisted he had no link with the robbers.
He accused the nation’s number one police officer of planning to frame him and called on the public “to disregard this claim as a baseless allegation”.
“Let it be known that there is no way I could have been associated with armed robbery against my people,” he said.
“When the Offa robbery incident happened, I was the first top public official to pay a visit to the place and right there in the palace of the traditional ruler, I put a call through to this same Mr. Ibrahim Idris, the IGP (Inspector General of police), requesting him to make certain specific security arrangements as demanded by the people,” he added.
Saraki said he was being framed because of his differences with the police boss over his shoddy handling of killings of innocent people across the country.
“This plot is concocted to embarrass me and, in the mind of the IGP, it is his own response after his refusal to honour the invitation by the National Assembly, headed me, for him to come and offer explanations on the rampant killings and violence across the country,” Saraki said.