The Nigeria Police Force said it would arraign Ismail Yakubu in court for giving false information to the police to carry out a search on Chief Edwin Clark’s residence in Abuja.
Force Spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, disclosed this while presenting the 45-year-old to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
Yakubu, however, said a taxi driver told him there were arms in Clark’s house, and that he did nothing wrong by informing the police.
Four policemen had on Tuesday illegally carried out a search on the Abuja residence of Clark following information from Yakubu.
Mr Moshood said that the officer who led the team had been queried while the other three were currently undergoing orderly room trial.
The officers are ASP David Dominic, Insp. Godwin Musa, Insp. Sada Abubakar and Insp. Yabo Paul.
Moshood added that any police officer carrying out the execution of search warrant must follow the laid down procedures within the law.
“Where such is not followed, such officer must be made to face the consequences of violating the rule of law,” he said.
He said that the police had the statutory right to execute a duly obtained search warrant in any premises where it had actionable intelligence.
Speaking with newsmen, Yakubu, who is from Waru Village in FCT, said he gave the information to the police based on patriotism as a Nigerian.
He said that he was in a taxi along Haile Selassie Street, Asokoro, when he was told that a white colour Hilux van loaded with arms was entering the residence of Clark.
“I don’t think I have done anything wrong to have reported the matter to the police,” he said.
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, had on Tuesday apologised to Clark over the unauthorised raid of his residence.
