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The
Nigerian Police Force is compromised and has refused to prosecute
suspected certificate forgers in the Lagos State House of Assembly, the
Peoples’ Democratic Party had accused.

In a petition
addressed to the minister of police affairs, Adamu Waziri, dated July
19, 2010, and signed by Ishola Durosinmi on behalf of the Amuwo Odofin
chapter of the PDP, the party insisted that the police is shying away
from prosecuting the offenders.

“Not only have we
complained to the Nigeria Police Command in Lagos State, the command
investigated and found the allegations to be true. However, instead of
them prosecuting these people, it would appear that they have been
compromised in the last one year that the case has been pending,” the
PDP members said.

NEXT had, in
previous reports, detailed how two members of the Lagos House of
Assembly, Bola Badmus-Olujobi, the deputy speaker of the house; and
Risikat Adegeye, who represents Amuwo Odofin II constituency, are
involved in the forgery of their West African Examination Council
(WAEC) senior secondary school certificate examination result. Both of
them are members of the Action Congress.

Mrs. Badmus-Olujobi
claimed in the forms she submitted to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) that she attended Amuwo Grammar School,
Agboju, Lagos, and that she obtained West African School Certificate in
June 1988; while Mrs. Adegeye, in the form CF001 deposed to on 18
December, 2006, claimed that she attended St. Timothy College, Onike,
Iwaya, Lagos, and that she obtained West African School Certificate in
June 1977. The WAEC had since denied issuing both certificates.

Intervene urgently

The PDP, in its
petition, claimed that it had “written petitions to the office of the
Inspector General of Police, as well as the senate committee chairman
on police affairs, Gbenga Ogunniya; and that “Ogunniya indeed spoke to
the Inspector General of Police on this matter and the IGP assured him
that prosecution will be done immediately.

“This was about four months ago, and nothing still has been done,” the party claims.

The PDP, which claimed that some of its own members had been
prosecuted and convicted for similar crimes before, want the minister
to “intervene urgently towards ensuring the prosecution of these
fraudsters who have been illegally collecting all manners of allowances
and remunerations from tax payers money and using the funds to suppress
our party’s existence in Lagos State.”