The office of the Inspector General of Police yesterday began the formal interrogation of police personnel involved in the sporadic shooting that breached security at the State House, Abuja.
The personnel involved in the shooting incident include Aide-de-Camp to the first lady, CSP Usman Shugaba; Escort Commander, DSP Sheriff Kazeem and four riot policemen who were detained last Friday but later released and told to return on Tuedday.
Sources said that police detectives assigned by the IG began interrogation of the suspects yesterday.
The interrogation would seek to determine the actual cause of the shooting going by individual accounts and the role played by each personnel during the incident.
The sources said an inventory of the firearms available to the personnel would be taken in order to determine possible misuse and misapplication.
“We are looking at who ordered the shooting. Was your principal in such danger to warrant such use of firearms?
“Did you take into cognisance the implication of such shooting at the Villa? We are starting with these posers and will get to a point where people would be held accountable,” a source said.
When contacted, the Force Public Relations Officer (PRO) and Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Mr. Frank Mba, declined comment.
A shooting occurred Thursday night when the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari; three of her children– Zahra, Halima, Yusuf– and some of her security aides, led by Shugaba, stormed the residence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew and Personal Assistant, Sabiu Yusuf, within the precinct of the State House.
They had insisted that Yusuf, who had just returned from Lagos, the epicentre of COVID-19 in Nigeria, should proceed on self-quarantine for 14 days to save the president and his family from possible exposure to COVID-19, but the presidential aide rebuffed them.
