Heads To Roll Among Security Agencies Over Sect Leader’s Interview

Top Federal Government officials are now curious over how the Boko Haram suspect, Ali Tishau, who was released from police custody on bail, appeared on a local television station interview programme to castigate the government some days ago.
Reliable sources told Saturday Tribune that the authorities have set up a powerful machinery to investigate how Tishau was released  without an official consent.
According to the sources, the investigation, would culminate in a major shake-up in the law enforcement agencies over the incident considered as embarrassing the government.
The source claimed the government was already aware that an arm of the security services allegedly orchestrated the interview in order to make the government look as if it was not doing anything to address the Boko Haram issue.
Tishau, who spoke on behalf of the sect on their alleged grievances and what government should do to assuage them, was arrested by the police on December 20, 2010 and detained for interrogation.
Consequently, he was charged to Wuse Chief Magistrate Court One on March 28, 2011 and granted bail, and again arraigned before a Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja on May 7, 2011 and granted bail.
The sources said that on each occasion that the suspect was granted bail, the police had always re-arrested him on security grounds.
According to the sources, the matter assumed a new twist when one of the chiefs of a security agency requested the police to release him to them on June 27, 2011, to enable them conclude their investigation on the suspect.
The request was reportedly granted by the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim on July 7, 2011, with a proviso that the suspect should be returned to the police in line with normal practice among security agencies.
However, the police hierarchy was shocked that the suspect was never returned to the police only to see him being interviewed on the TV station purportedly organised by one of the security agencies.
But police in their reaction through the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Olusola Amore, said the police did not hide bomb warnings from presidency as claimed by the suspect during the interview.
He said there was no iota of truth in the claim that the self-acclaimed Boko Haram member had given useful information to the police on the spate of bombings that occurred recently.
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