A former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, on Tuesday lampooned both the police and the Department of State Services, DSS, for stopping the prosecution of the Nyanya blast suspect, Sadiq Aminu Ogwuche.
DAILY POST reports that a Federal High Court in Abuja had on Monday struck out terrorism charges against Ogwuche, citing lack of diligence on the part of the prosecutors.
Ogwuche, a native of Benue State had been repatriated from Sudan to face charges in respect of the Nyanya bombing of April 14, in which over 75 persons were killed in the Abuja suburb.
Addressing newsmen in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, Tsav who coincidentally hails from Benue State, noted that the 1999 Constitution gave the Nigeria Police the power to investigate and prosecute criminal cases while the role of the DSS was to operate as the agency behind the mask.
He said, “The dismissal of the case against Nyanya bomb blast suspect, Aminu Ogwuche, by an Abuja High Court on the grounds of rivalry between the police and the DSS raises so many fundamental questions, which the authorities need to look into.
“This is what is happening in our security agencies. And what is responsible for this unnecessary rivalry? The fight for supremacy rather than inter- service cooperation for the overall benefit of the country is counter-productive. Could this be propelled by corruption or could it be likened to the fight of two wives married to the same husband with each trying to outplay the other to win the husband’s love?”
According to him, the investigation of criminal cases by the police was more in line with the rule of law than what happened elsewhere.
“That is what we met in the police and that is what we were taught and that is what we practiced during the good old days”, he said.
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