– The police have arrested and arraigned a man for giving false information
– The defendant allegedly blew the whistle on Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu
– After conducting a futile search the police arrested and charged 50-year-old Ahmed Echodo
On Tuesday, May 39, 50-year-old Ahmed Echodo was arraigned in an Upper Area Court, in Gudu, Abuja, and then remanded hin in Keffi Prison, Nasarawa state.
Echodo was accused of allegedly giving false information, based on which the police raided the official guest house of the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, in Maitama, Abuja.
According to Punch, the police executed a search warrant on the property on Friday, May 27, based on the alleged false information given by Echodo.
Ekweremadu expressed disappointment after the raid on his house. File photo
Echodo however, pleaded not guilty, after which the presiding Chief Upper Area Court judge, Umar Kagarko, directed that he be remanded in prison pending the ruling on his bail application to be delivered on June 5.
During the raid, Mr Oliver Ogenyi, a steward in Ekweremadu’s guest house, was arrested, but was later released after been taken to the Inspector General of Police special squad office in Guzape District, Abuja.
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The charge against Echodo read: “That on May 26, 2017, at about 0900hrs, you Ahmed Echodo, ‘m, aged 50 years of No. 44, Living Truth Street, Masaaka, Nasarawa State and one Maiwada Adamu (now at large) did conspire with yourselves by informing the office of IGP, STS at Guzape Area of the FCT, Abuja, that House No. 10 Games Street, Maitama, FCT, Abuja occupied by Oliver Ogenyi is being maintained and used for criminal activities including keeping of arms and ammunition.
“Unfortunately, after the police carried out diligence execution of the search warrant, no incriminating items were found therein. You, by such action, misled the police and hereby committed the above offences.”
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Echodo in response said: “They (police) have not shown me how the information was passed to them by me. Was it oral or written? When they went to the house with Wada (who was said to be at large), I was not there.”
The presiding judge of the court, fixed June 5, 2017, for ruling on the bail application.
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ZENITHBLOG.com earlier reported that Ike Ekweremadu the deputy senate president has advised that the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) for May 30 should be optional.
Ekweremadu said this while speaking on Sunday, May 28 at an inter-denominational church service at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Abakaliki, to commemorate 2017 Democracy Day and Governor David Umahi’s second year in office.
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