The Department of State Services (DSS) has cleared Senate President Bukola Saraki and other members of the National Assembly over their alleged involvement in a theft of N310million.
DSS the story is of Saraki’s purported involvement is “malicious falsehood” being spread by one of its dismissed officers, Abdulrasheed Maigari for ulterior motives.
A top official of the Service said in confidence that, “The story making the rounds that the sum of N310 million belonging to the Senate President was stolen in 2015 is a malicious.
“From our investigation, the money in question did not belong to the Senate President or any member of the National Assembly for that matter.
“The investigation conducted by the DSS and the confessional statement made by Abdulrasheed Maigari, a suspect in the case, did not support this claim at all”.
“Maigari’s recent claim in the media is nothing but a made up story to achieve a hidden motive.”
It will be recalled the said amount of N310 was stolen by the dismissed DSS staff working in concert with some equally dismissed army personnel when the attacked and robbed a Bureau de Change (BDC) operator in November 2015.
Maigari was recently arrested by a combined operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and the Anti-Kidnapping Unit from the Abuja Police Command, alongside the suspected gang leaders, Emeka Kelvin and Ndubuisi Prince Uzor on March 26 following the kidnap for ransom of the Chairman of Gateway insurance, Alhaji Ozi Isa Salami.
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