The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, has said the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, never visited the country to commiserate with the family of the late Gani Fawehinmi.

The declaration is coming even as people are insisting that they watched Ribadu on television, as he was condoling with the family of the late legal icon in his Ikeja, Lagos, and residence.

Besides visiting Gani’s family, Ribadu was also said to have demanded to see the corpse of the late Gani, a request that was also granted by the family. After visiting the morgue, where he spent some minutes, paying tribute to the late human rights activist, Ribadu left the country, leaving some Nigerians to wonder if he was not the same man the federal wanted badly.

The inspector general of police, who was on his first official assignment to Lagos, yesterday, since he assumed office about six weeks ago, still maintained that Ribadu never touched Nigerian soil during the period in question. The IGP, therefore, challenged journalists to show the pictures of the former EFCC chairman they snapped while he was in Gani’s residence ‘‘Who took his photograph when he came to Nigeria. I want you to show me the photograph you snapped him when he came to Nigeria,” he insisted.
On rampant kidnapping, which has become a booming business in the South-East, the IGP said policemen were not folding their arms. He added that security had been beefed up in the zone, especially in Anambra State.

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