Ex-VP cries out: My house has been searched four times in six months

Former vice-president Namadi Sambo says the
security operatives who raided his home at 1, Alimi
road, GRA, Kaduna are desperate and are on a “fault-
finding mission”.

He also said his house has been searched four times
“in six months”.

On Wednesday, heavily armed operatives of the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC) raided the residence and
did not find anything incriminating.

But in a statement on Saturday, Umar Sani, media aide
to Sambo, noted that the recent raid was the fourth in
six months.

Sani said the visit of the operatives was unscheduled
and the reasons of the search were not “specifically
stated.”

He said that at the rate at which the ICPC operatives
were going, it would not be surprising to find an object
planted at the former vice-president’s home to
incriminate him.

“As a law-abiding citizen, the former vice-president
did not raise any alarm in the previous invasions in
view of the fact that he has nothing to hide,” the
statement by Sambo’s aide read.

“The recent desperation exhibited by some security
agencies in carrying out a raid on an unoccupied
residence blocking all entry and exit points, in a
commando-style and coming along with a bullion van
speaks volumes of the clandestine intention of the
security operatives.

“It is therefore worrisome to note that the consistency
with which the searches occurred and the intervals
between them portrays a desire of a fault-finding
mission. We are apprehensive that a repeat of such
episode will not be surprising if an incriminating object
is planted in his residence in order to wilfully and
deliberately incriminate him.

“It is against this background that we wish to draw the
attention of the unsuspecting members of the public to
this phenomenon.

“The desperation of some of the security agencies is
glaring by the number of times such searches were
conducted and still counting. We hope it is not a way
to try to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.”

Sambo recently visited Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
on a “courtesy call”.

TheCable