- An NGO group has sued the Inspector General of Police over Kemi Adeosun's alleged forgery of NYSC exemption certificate
- The group is asking the court to mandate the IGP to investigate the allegation against Adeosun
A suit has been filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos, against the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, for the failure of the police to probe the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who was accused of forging an exemption certificate of the National Youth Service Corps.
The Punch reports that the suit was filed by a non-governmental organisation, Human and Environmental Development Agenda Resource Centre (HEDA) led be one Olanrewaju Suraju.
The NGO is asking the court to grant it leave to seek an order of mandamus to compel the IG to probe the forgery allegation against the minister.
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The group said it filed the suit to prevent it from being swept under the carpet by the government.
The group chairman, Olarewaju Suraju, said the suit became necessary after the Inspector-General of Police allegedly shunned its July 10, 2018 letter, demanding the probe of the minister.
The group is asking the court for an urgent hearing of the case “in the overriding interest of justice since the subject matter is of utmost national concern and particularly of great interest to civil society in general.”
The group said if the forgery allegation against Adeosun was true, it would like the minister to be prosecuted, alongside the officials of the Department of State Services who cleared her for ministerial appointment, and members of the National Assembly who also cleared her and subsequently used the infraction to blackmail her.
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com earlier reported that the chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), faulted calls for the removal of Kemi Adeosun as finance minister over the allegation that she skipped the NYSC programme and forged an exemption certificate.
Sagay said Adeosun would remain the minister of finance despite the forgery scandal, adding that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari "cannot afford to lose that woman.”
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Source: Naija.ng
