The Senate has set up a 10-man ad-hoc committee to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over an alleged attempt by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to implicate Senate President Bukola Saraki in a cultism-related case said to have emanated from Kwara State.
This was even as the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan (APC, Yobe), lamented that the issue had caused “needless” disruption to budget consideration.
The resolution to set up the high-powered ad-hoc committee followed a matter of personal explanation raised by Senator Saraki during Wednesday plenary wherein he informed colleagues of an ongoing attempt by the police hierarchy to implicate him and the Kwara State governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed, in a case involving some four cultism suspects arrested in Kwara. Read more