Legislative aid caught raiding offices in Nass

Nemesis eventually caught up with one of the Legislative Aides identified as Kabiru Mohammed Lawal on Friday, who burgled offices of members of the House of Representatives was apprehended with the aid of closed circuit television (CCTV) app.
Kabiru who hails from Offa, Kwara State is a Legislative Assistant (LA) to Hon. Mustapha Saidu.
According to eyewitness accounts, the light-complexion Kabiru has at different occasions parade himself as Journalist in the course of extorting unsuspecting visitors from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and politicians.
They observed that as Legislative Aide, his monthly take-home is estimated at N200,000.
As at the time of filing this report, the investigation into the activities of Kabiru was still skeletal.
Speaking briefly on how his office was burgled, Chairman, House Committee on Civil Society Organizations and Donor Agencies, Hon. Kabiru Idris disclosed that Kabiru broke into his office after using several keys, barely 15 minutes after he left the office.

“Fortunately for him, he shut the light of my office but I was able to on it, I set my cameras. Live I can see him online… he used different keys but I can see from the camera, he was struggling to open the door.
“And this was less than 15 minutes when I closed from the office. Basically he was monitoring my movement. There and then we now saw how he came into the office. We have all the videos,” Hon. Idris stated.
While noting that Kabiru’s employer, has been contacted and expected at the National Assembly to have first-hand on the incident, Hon. Idris argued that “it will be unfair for me to take any action or allow anybody to take any action without the consent of his principal.
“I’ve already invited him, he’s on his way coming. Thereafter, we will give a brief of what happened.
“The Chairman of the Press (Hon. Benjamin Kalu) is with us, whose office also was burgled two weeks ago. Chairman civil society, an chairman of press, we were all burgled, so we don’t know what is happening,” he observed.
However, few hours later, Hon. Idris noted that the issue has been handed over to the National Assembly management for further action.
Meanwhile, some officers of the Sergeant-at-Arms handling the case at Office Room 0.59 New Building of the House of Representatives, prevented journalists from accessing the office where Kabiru was detained.

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