A legal concern group, Network for Police Reform in Nigeria, has called on the Idris Ibrahim-led Nigeria Police to ensure no stone is left unturned in the ongoing investigations towards unraveling the April five bloody robbery in Offa, Kwara State.

Insisting on the call, the National Coordinator of the group, Okechukwu Nwanguma, while addressing a newsmen on the matter at news briefing in Lagos, insisted that all suspects in the case must be thoroughly investigated without fear or favour and all culprits be brought under the full weight of the law, irrespective of their individual status or position in society.

While giving kudos to the police investigative team led by the gallant Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari on the Offa robbery incident, for a good job done so far, Nwanguma, who spoke through Samuel Akpologun expressed the groups condemnation of the use of thugs by the Senate President Bukola Saraki or any other politician in the country for the purpose of disrupting electoral process or gaining undue electoral advantage.

Akpologun said the use of political brigands often turns election- an otherwise civil exercise, into a warfront in Nigeria, saying electoral violence subverts democracy and undermines the democratic rights of Nigerians to freely choose their leaders.

He said the group also wondered why the arrested suspects of the bloody incident who were paraded by the police so far, did not include the dismissed police officer, Adikwu who was the alleged chief armourer of the gang; even after being mentioned by the key suspect as the supplier of weapons for the operation.

Similarly, Akpologun queried why Ayo Opadokun’s son, Kayode, who was among those arrested, was also not paraded, echoeing the fears being entertained by members of the concerned public about the safety of Kayode and Adikwu, thereby calling on the police to ensure the safety of the duo; even as the group insisted that the police must ensure the two suspects were produced alive in court to corroborate or deny the allegation that it was the senate president, Saraki that provided the weapons.

Concluding the statement, he expressed worries about Nigeria Police attitude towards court orders and the rule of law in general, saying the police should heed the court order that the suspects be arraigned or granted bail, as failure to heed this order may give credence to the suspicion that the police have got something to hide.

Disobedience to court orders offends the notion of rule of law which the Inspector General of Police often flouts.