Apart From Monies Recovered, Police Reveal How It Found Documents Concerning Sheikh Ja’afar’s Murder In Senator Goje’s Home
The Nigerian Police had on Thursday said apart from the millions of cash it found in the Asokoro residence of Mr. Goje, it also found other documents including ” A File containing write-ups on how Governor Shekarau plotted the assassination of Sheikh Ja’afar”.
When Premium Times visited the residence of the Senator on Saturday, they were told that he had gone to the office to attend to “urgent matters relating to Budget 2017 which might be laid at Plenary next week” .
However, some of his aides while responding to our inquiries said they were shocked by the police claim.
“The Senator has made it clear he had nothing to do with the alleged documents on the murder of Sheikh Ja’afar,” one of them, Abbas Saleh, said.
He said what the police found was a printout of a report published by Sahara Reporters in 2009.
“It is therefore something that has been in public domain,” Mr. Saleh said. “Do you think if the Police had found anything incriminating, they would still have been silent?”
A page on Sahara Reporters, had actually published a report on April 12, 2009 titled “Revealed: How Gov. Shekarau Plotted the Assassination of Sheikh Ja’afar“.
Mr. Shekarau himself had threaten to sue the Nigerian Police for defamation of character over the allegation.
Speaking to the Hausa service of the BBC via his spokesperson, Sule Ya’u, which was monitored on Saturday, the former governor said he suspected that the document the Police said they found in Mr. Goje’s House was an old one written by the then Kano State opposition camp to unfairly blame him for the murder of the cleric.
“I also have that document. Several other people here in Kano also have it and I am sure it is the the same document that former Governor Goje also has. If it is a different one, the police should come out and explain to Nigerians,” he said.
Sheikh Ja’afar was gunned down inside a mosque as he observed the early morning prayer on April 13, 2007.
Opinions were divided at the time as to those behind the murder. While, some belief the Sheikh was killed by the extremist group, Boko Haram, many others said Mr. Shekarau, governor of Kano at the time, might be behind the murder because the cleric was one of his major critics.
Boko Haram never claimed responsibility for the murder and the Police are yet to inform Nigerians on how far it has gone in investigating those behind crime.
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