Group Petitions Anti-Graft Agencies To Probe ASP Amabua Mohammed Over Abuse of Office, Purchase of Properties
A public interest advocacy group under the umbrella of Public Interest Lawyers League, has leveled a petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Code Of Conduct Bureau and the Police Service Commission, to begin a probe on Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Amabua Mohammed.
The petition of the advocate group alleges that Mohammed purchased properties worth N18million and is found to have abused office.
Copies of the petitions was signed by a member of the group, Abdul Mahmud Esq, and addressed to the ICPC, CCB, as well as the Police Service Commission.
The petitioner claims that ACP Amabua Mohammed purchased twin bedroom bungalows in Nasarawa at prices that exceeds his income as a public servant.
“The above-named public officer illegally acquired twin two bedrooms bungalows, valued at Nine Million Naira (N9,000,000.00) each, with Plots Numbers 135A and 135B at Fatima Gold Estate, Mararaba, Nasarawa State;
“The monthly and or yearly income attributable to an Assistant Commissioner of Police cannot or conceivably amount to the total value of the aforementioned properties except they were acquired through corrupt practices.
“The above named public officer doesn’t reside in the aforementioned properties, which suggests that she resides in another property acquired through corrupt practices as a public officer,” the petition read.
The petition also put that ASP Amabua Mohammed had been using public office to aggrandize herself.
This, the petitioner posited, contravenes several regulations like Section 19 of The Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Act, 2000.
The petitioner also revealed that, on June 27, 2023, Mohammed directed officers from the Abacha Road Police Station, led by Inspector Sola Olalekan, to arrest he, the petitioner, on false charges of assault, criminal trespass, burglary, and disconnection of electricity.
This, according to the petitioner, was using her force to gave undue advantage.
“The police, on her insistence, did not visit the aforementioned properties she alleged were burgled and trespassed into to ascertain the truth of her unfounded claims.
“Rather the petitioner was subjected to harassment and intimidation at the police station until order came from the Police Force Headquarters to release the petitioner on bail.
“ACP Amabua Mohammed on the 5th July, 2023, deployed her position to ensure that the petitioner was charged before the Magistrate Court, sitting at the Muhammadu Buhari International Market, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, on false charges.
“The petitioner is currently on bail.
“ACP Amabua Mohammed owes Fatima Gold Estate Association the sum of Seven hundred and thirty seven thousand Naira (N737,000.00) being cumulative debt arising from the cost of providing security in the Estate, payment of salaries of security personnel and gardeners, evacuation of domestic waste, and physical improvement and maintenance of the Estate, etcetera.
“She has not paid anything since she acquired the twin two bedrooms’ bungalows occupied by her sister, Zara Mohammed.
“Rather than redeem her debt, her family continues to emplace domestic waste from her properties in nearby residences as the photo attached to this written complaint shows;
“In 2012, when the Estate Association caused the letter of demand for payment of the above-stated sum was served on her sister, Zara Mohammed, the ACP caused the arrest of officials of the Estate Association by officers from Abacha Road Police Station, Mararaba, Nasarawa State.
“Following police intervention, and for amicable resolution of the dispute, another formal letter of demand was served on her through Inspector Lazarus of the aforementioned police station. No action was taken by the police because it concerned an Assistant Commissioner of Police.
“On 25th June, 2023, following assault on the security officers on duty by two aides – Ruth Adamu and one Adeniran – of ACP Amabua Mohammed, while she held another security officer, the petitioner was called to intervene.
“On arriving the scene, the petitioner told the ACP that it was wrong to assault an ordinary citizen no matter her rank in the Police Force.
“She left the security officer and held the petitioner by the scruff of his collar.
“On 27th July, 2023, she instigated officers led by Inspector Sola Olalekan to arrest the petitioner at his home. Using her position, she ensured that the petitioner was charged to court on 5th July, 2023 on trumped-up charges.
“The case between Fatima Gold Estate Association and ACP Amabua Mohammed is civil – arising from her refusal to pay what she owes the Estate Association.
“She conveniently turned the case into a criminal matter to avoid redeeming the debt and on the petitioner who is the lawyer to the Estate Association, while using her position as an Assistant Commissioner of Police,” the petition read.
