Former Vice President Namadi Sambo
By Baron Ike
Former Vice President Namadi Sambo has raised the alarm that the police and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Offences Commission (ICPC) are wicth hunting him.
Sambo was deputy to former President Goodluck Jonathan, and was believed to be in charge of some sensitive government economic activities during their tenure.
Recently, it was reported that Sambo’s house in Kaduna was raided by security operatives.
The operatives are believed to have come from the Department of State Security Service (DSS) and the ICPC.
An ICPC operative in the North-West zonal office of the agency in Kaduna, had confirmed the raid to an online platform.
“Yes, we carried out a raid of the former Vice President Sambo’s house around 3:00 pm today (Wednesday) with other agencies,” the operative said but declined to give further details because he has no official permission to speak to journalists.
“You can contact our headquarters in Abuja for details,” he added.
Umar Sani, the former media aide to Sambo, who also confirmed Wednesday’s raid said it was the fifth by security operatives on the house.
He accused Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of allegedly intimidating people to scare possible contenders in 2019.
“This is not the first time they are searching the house. They have been coming to search the house on several occasions,” Sani said.
“Today they came with a court order and gave a copy of the court order to the Chief Security Officer in the house.
“After they finished the search, they wrote at the back page of the court order that they gave to the CSO that they didn’t find anything and they left.
“So we are not surprised because it has now become a routine activity,” Sani added.
In May, the ex-vice president held a closed-door meeting with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo in what analyst say may be an attempt to get the buy in of the powers that be to call the security operatives to order.
But on Saturday, July 1, Sambo reiterated that the manner the police and ICPC are targetting his homes suggest something else, hence he raised the alarm.