AT LAST! Prosecution Of Those Who Forged Senate Rules To Commence

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has given the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation and the police a two-week ultimatum to file charges against the senators who forged the Senate Standing Orders used for the proclamation of the 8th Senate.

The Senate Orders 2015, alleged to be a forged version of the 2011 version, was used for the election of the Senate leadership, which produced Bukola Saraki as the Senate President and Ike Ekweremadu as his deputy, shortly after the 8th Senate was proclaimed on June 9, 2015.






Top sources in the Federal Ministry of Justice and the police headquarters confirmed that Malami had given the police and the DPP of the Federation, Mohammed Diri, two weeks to file charges.

It was learnt that Malami called for the file on the case last week and found out that the ministry had since July 29, 2015, recommended the prosecution of all the senators involved in the crime.

The minister was also said to have discovered in the file that the ministry had requested the police to further investigate the case in order to unravel the suspects and the roles played by them in the case.

The sources told Punch that the suspects would be charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery, breach of official trust and unlawful assembly said to have contravened various provisions of Penal Code.

One of the prime suspects in the forgery case is senator Ike Ekweremadu.