Misau Risks 7-year Jail Term For Perjury – Police

There are indications that the Senator representing Bauchi
Central senatorial district, Isa Hamma Misau, may face charges
bordering on making false declaration or giving false statement
under oath about his date of birth.

Findings by LEADERSHIP not TheNigerialawyer revealed that, while
the birth certificate the lawmaker submitted when he joined the
Police has November 30, 1974 as his date of birth, Misau willfully
stated in the nomination form he submitted to the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) that he was born on November
30, 1973.

Accordingly, the Nigeria Police Force has said it will surely
prosecute the Senator for perjury, an offence punishable under the
Criminal Code, which is applicable in the Southern states of
Nigeria) as well as the Penal Code, which is applicable in the
Northern states of Nigeria.

The offence has to do with giving false statement on oath or
making false declaration, which attracts seven years of
imprisonment under Section 164 of the Penal Code.

The Force also said Misau contested elections with forged
retirement letter which is a culpable offence, just as he presented
himself in many places under different identity or names.

The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Mashood, stated
this earlier in the week, while reacting to LEADERSHIP Sunday’s
findings that INEC allowed Senator Misau to contest the 2011
election on presentation of a letter of notification for voluntary
retirement as an evidence that he was properly discharged from the
Nigeria Police Force.

The notification for voluntary retirement letter dated December
1, 2010 sighted by our correspondent during the week was addressed
to the Inspector General of Police, through the Assistant Inspector
General of Police, as well as through the then Commissioner of
Police, Niger State Command in Minna.Misau also attached to his
retirement application letter for INEC clearance to contest for
Bauchi Central senatorial election in 2011 the letter by then Niger
state commissioner of police dated December 14, 2010 forwarding the
then DSP Mohammed Isah Hamma’s retirement application to the
Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) for approval.

In addition, Misau attached a copy of the AIG’s letter dated
December 15, 2010 seeking approval of the IGP for his retirement
application to the 2011 INEC nomination form and affidavit in
support of personal particulars of persons seeking election to the
membership of the Senate.

For the 2015 election, Misau attached a copy of his retirement
letter dated March 5, 2014 issued by the Police Service Commission
(PSC) to the INEC nomination form, but a copy of the letter
forwarding his retirement letter from IGP to the PSC was not
attached this time around.

All Misau’s official documents, both academic credentials and
those at the Nigeria Police Force prior to contesting elections
were in the name of ‘’Mohammed Isa Hamma’’.

But in the INEC nomination form and the affidavit in support of
personal particulars of persons seeking election to the membership
of the Senate completed in 2011 and in 2015 are in the name of
‘’Isah Hamma Misau’’.

Our findings also revealed that there is no copy of sworn
affidavit for change of name or extract of same from any newspaper
publication.

The birth certificate issued in his favour on February 2, 1991
by Bauchi State Health Management Board with Registration and
serial numbers 141400c and 12799 respectively shows a birth date of
November 30, 1974 in the Police Academy cadet declaration form he
completed while enlisting into police service on May 1, 2000.

Another birth certificate was issued by the same Bauchi State
Health Management Board without Registration and serial numbers and
without issuing date but with November 30, 1973 boldly written as
his date of birth, which he attached to his 2011 INEC nomination
form.

The Senator swore to an affidavit that he was born on November
30, 1973 and equally deposed to same in the age declaration
attached to his 2015 INEC nomination form as against November 30,
1974 in his initial birth certificate.

Other observations about personal information in his credentials
and at the INEC at various times are that he was born on November
30, 1974 and started primary school in 1977, less than 3 years
old.

In the Police Academy declaration form, he indicated place of
birth as Misau as against Bauchi in the birth certificate. Besides,
the name ‘’Hamman’’ and ‘’Hamma’’; ‘’Isa’’ and ‘’Isah’’ were
interchangeably used in his records.

Reacting to the clearance of Misau by INEC with a copy of his
notification for voluntary retirement letter in 2011, Police
spokesman, Jimoh Mashood, said it has been the argument of the
force that it should be included in the commission’s panel that
screens candidates for elections.

The Force PRO said, “We will take the necessary action and
judicial process against him. This is why we said he is a deserter
from the Nigeria Police Force; otherwise he won’t be completing
INEC nomination form with mere copy of his application letter for
the purported voluntary retirement.

“We will reiterate before appropriate quarters that the Nigeria
Police Force be included in the panel screening candidates for
elections to fish out similar characters at all material times and
to forestall further occurrence of this development.

‘’In any case, this further adds to the avalanche of evidence we
have for appropriate judicial process we will take against him to
serve as deterrent against his likes in the society.

‘’The Nigeria Police Force will charge DSP Mohammed Isa Hamma
for forgery and perjury because he lied under oath by stating in
the INEC nomination forms that he was born on November 30, 1973,
while it is November 30, 1974 in the birth certificate he submitted
while joining the Force.

‘’He contested elections with forged retirement letter which is
a culpable offence. He is liable of giving false statement on oath
or making false declaration which attracts 7 years of imprisonment
under Section 164 of the Penal Code’’, Mashood stated.

Noting that the Police Service Commission (PSC) erroneously
cleared Misau as reported, Mashood stated that the duties of the
PSC are appointment, promotion and discipline.

He said the commission cannot investigate cases of forgery and
perjury, and therefore cannot by stoke of pen say it has cleared
Misau of these glaring allegations which are yet to be fully
investigated.

His words: “Prima facie evidence at the disposal of the Nigeria
Police Force point at offences of perjury and forgery, the
purported Senator has committed. The PSC invited him to come and
show that the retirement was indeed issued by the commission which
he failed to honour.

‘’PSC, without further ado, said it has cleared the same person
that snubbed its invitation. With all due respect, the Force will
not be party to ridiculing the system and as such, will see to the
law taking its cause”.

Efforts to reach Senator Misau for his own reaction to the
allegation of perjury turned out to be futile, as calls made to his
mobile phone line by our correspondent was not picked or returned.
Also, text message sent to him demanding for reaction was not
replied.

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) had on August 27, 2017 2declared
Misau, a deserter or a fugitive on the ground he is still a Police
officer who abandoned his job since 2010.

The Force PRO, CSP Moshood, told journalists in Abuja that they
are currently investigating the lawmaker, including those involved
in the alleged forgery of his retirement letter from the service,
including an official of the Police Service Commission, Mrs. Garos
Logams, who allegedly signed the document.

But in a swift reaction, Senator Misau dismissed the allegation,
insisting that he properly retired voluntarily from the Force in
2010 and even paid the Police one month salary as the law
requires.

Misau also explained that the letter of his retirement given to
him in 2014 by the PSC followed his own letter, declaring his
intention to retire written to them since 2010.

But the Force PRO, while explaining that the Senator was still
an officer of the Force, said, “Misau, a former Deputy
Superintendent of Police, refused to proceed on Junior Command
Course 49/2008 at Staff College, Jos, between January 5, 2009 and
June 19, 2009 and also failed to report in Niger State in 2010 and
was subsequently queried, in line with the Public Service Rules
Sections 030301(b)(g)(m)&(o) and
030402(a)(b)(c)(e)&(w).

“The retirement letter presented to journalists by DSP Mohammed
Hamman is suspiciously forged and dubiously obtained. The letter,
which was dated March 5, 2014, a period of more than four years
after AP No 57300 DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman (Senator Isah Hamman
Misau) deserted the Force is now being investigated by the Force.
His name is still on their staff roll”.

On why it took the Police seven years to declare Misau a
deserter, CSP Moshood said there was no time limit for a deserter
to be investigated and punished, noting that Misau’s case file was
still before the Force Disciplinary Committee.

But addressing a press conference at the National Assembly,
Misau displayed the letter with which his retirement from the force
was effected by the Police Service Commission.

But hitting back at the lawmaker that same day, the Police
implored the Senate to send Misau back to his duty post as Deputy
Superintended of Police.

The Force PRO, Mashood, maintained that Misau is still a police
officer and not a Senator because his name is still in the Police
as an officer of the Force.

He urged the Senate’s Ethics and Privileges committee to ask
Senator Misau to dress up in his Police uniform and appear before
the Police disciplinary committee to answer charges against
him.

CSP Moshood also asked the general public and the Red Chamber to
dismiss statements credited to Senator Misau as everything he has
said about the IGP and the police were false.

He said, “Senator Misau is a habitual and unrepentant liar. His
real name in the Police is DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman, with Police
number AP No. 57300. He is still a Police officer and not a Senator
because as his name still in the Police nominal roll.

‘’Senate will do the nation good by asking him to return to the
Nigeria Police Force to face disciplinary committee and answer all
the charges bordering on serious misconduct, unprofessional
wrongdoings as earlier contained in our press statement released
today.

‘’We want the public to know that he is not fit and proper to be
a senator of the federal republic of Nigeria; because that
purported retirement letter he displayed today was forged. That his
forged letter is dated 2014, whereas he contested the 2011 general
election. He is wanted by the force for forgery and desertion which
are all criminal offences in the Nigeria law books.

‘’All DSP Hamman was saying were cheap blackmail, distraction
and deliberate acts to derail investigation. So, the force will
want the Senate Ethics and Privileges committee, which we have
confidence and trust in, to see reason to ask him to dress up in
his Police uniform to come and appear before Police disciplinary
committee to answer charges against him”.

Meanwhile, a source in the Senate who do not want to be
mentioned in print has said that the Red Chamber will as soon as it
resumes to plenary session on 19th of this month direct its Ethics
and Privileges committee to investigate the allegations leveled
against Misau as well as that by Misau against the Nigeria Police
Force.

Speaking with LEADERSHIP Sunday, the source who does not want
his name in print said, “I can assure you that the senate will
within the first few days of its resumption directs its Ethics and
Privileges Committee to investigate allegations made by police
against Senator Misau, just as it will direct the Police Committee
to confirm allegations made by Senator Misau against the Nigeria
police force.

‘’These allegations made from hindsight of information or by the
privilege of insider’s knowledge can’t just be waved aside. Senate
will as usual come home with the truth irrespective of the fact
that one of its own is involved, or anybody for that matter in
concerned”.

Culled: LEADERSHIP

There are indications that the Senator representing Bauchi
Central senatorial district, Isa Hamma Misau, may face charges
bordering on making false declaration or giving false statement
under oath about his date of birth.

Findings by LEADERSHIP not TheNigerialawyer revealed that, while
the birth certificate the lawmaker submitted when he joined the
Police has November 30, 1974 as his date of birth, Misau willfully
stated in the nomination form he submitted to the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) that he was born on November
30, 1973.

Accordingly, the Nigeria Police Force has said it will surely
prosecute the Senator for perjury, an offence punishable under the
Criminal Code, which is applicable in the Southern states of
Nigeria) as well as the Penal Code, which is applicable in the
Northern states of Nigeria.

The offence has to do with giving false statement on oath or
making false declaration, which attracts seven years of
imprisonment under Section 164 of the Penal Code.

The Force also said Misau contested elections with forged
retirement letter which is a culpable offence, just as he presented
himself in many places under different identity or names.

The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Mashood, stated
this earlier in the week, while reacting to LEADERSHIP Sunday’s
findings that INEC allowed Senator Misau to contest the 2011
election on presentation of a letter of notification for voluntary
retirement as an evidence that he was properly discharged from the
Nigeria Police Force.

The notification for voluntary retirement letter dated December
1, 2010 sighted by our correspondent during the week was addressed
to the Inspector General of Police, through the Assistant Inspector
General of Police, as well as through the then Commissioner of
Police, Niger State Command in Minna.Misau also attached to his
retirement application letter for INEC clearance to contest for
Bauchi Central senatorial election in 2011 the letter by then Niger
state commissioner of police dated December 14, 2010 forwarding the
then DSP Mohammed Isah Hamma’s retirement application to the
Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) for approval.

In addition, Misau attached a copy of the AIG’s letter dated
December 15, 2010 seeking approval of the IGP for his retirement
application to the 2011 INEC nomination form and affidavit in
support of personal particulars of persons seeking election to the
membership of the Senate.

For the 2015 election, Misau attached a copy of his retirement
letter dated March 5, 2014 issued by the Police Service Commission
(PSC) to the INEC nomination form, but a copy of the letter
forwarding his retirement letter from IGP to the PSC was not
attached this time around.

All Misau’s official documents, both academic credentials and
those at the Nigeria Police Force prior to contesting elections
were in the name of ‘’Mohammed Isa Hamma’’.

But in the INEC nomination form and the affidavit in support of
personal particulars of persons seeking election to the membership
of the Senate completed in 2011 and in 2015 are in the name of
‘’Isah Hamma Misau’’.

Our findings also revealed that there is no copy of sworn
affidavit for change of name or extract of same from any newspaper
publication.

The birth certificate issued in his favour on February 2, 1991
by Bauchi State Health Management Board with Registration and
serial numbers 141400c and 12799 respectively shows a birth date of
November 30, 1974 in the Police Academy cadet declaration form he
completed while enlisting into police service on May 1, 2000.

Another birth certificate was issued by the same Bauchi State
Health Management Board without Registration and serial numbers and
without issuing date but with November 30, 1973 boldly written as
his date of birth, which he attached to his 2011 INEC nomination
form.

The Senator swore to an affidavit that he was born on November
30, 1973 and equally deposed to same in the age declaration
attached to his 2015 INEC nomination form as against November 30,
1974 in his initial birth certificate.

Other observations about personal information in his credentials
and at the INEC at various times are that he was born on November
30, 1974 and started primary school in 1977, less than 3 years
old.

In the Police Academy declaration form, he indicated place of
birth as Misau as against Bauchi in the birth certificate. Besides,
the name ‘’Hamman’’ and ‘’Hamma’’; ‘’Isa’’ and ‘’Isah’’ were
interchangeably used in his records.

Reacting to the clearance of Misau by INEC with a copy of his
notification for voluntary retirement letter in 2011, Police
spokesman, Jimoh Mashood, said it has been the argument of the
force that it should be included in the commission’s panel that
screens candidates for elections.

The Force PRO said, “We will take the necessary action and
judicial process against him. This is why we said he is a deserter
from the Nigeria Police Force; otherwise he won’t be completing
INEC nomination form with mere copy of his application letter for
the purported voluntary retirement.

“We will reiterate before appropriate quarters that the Nigeria
Police Force be included in the panel screening candidates for
elections to fish out similar characters at all material times and
to forestall further occurrence of this development.

‘’In any case, this further adds to the avalanche of evidence we
have for appropriate judicial process we will take against him to
serve as deterrent against his likes in the society.

‘’The Nigeria Police Force will charge DSP Mohammed Isa Hamma
for forgery and perjury because he lied under oath by stating in
the INEC nomination forms that he was born on November 30, 1973,
while it is November 30, 1974 in the birth certificate he submitted
while joining the Force.

‘’He contested elections with forged retirement letter which is
a culpable offence. He is liable of giving false statement on oath
or making false declaration which attracts 7 years of imprisonment
under Section 164 of the Penal Code’’, Mashood stated.

Noting that the Police Service Commission (PSC) erroneously
cleared Misau as reported, Mashood stated that the duties of the
PSC are appointment, promotion and discipline.

He said the commission cannot investigate cases of forgery and
perjury, and therefore cannot by stoke of pen say it has cleared
Misau of these glaring allegations which are yet to be fully
investigated.

His words: “Prima facie evidence at the disposal of the Nigeria
Police Force point at offences of perjury and forgery, the
purported Senator has committed. The PSC invited him to come and
show that the retirement was indeed issued by the commission which
he failed to honour.

‘’PSC, without further ado, said it has cleared the same person
that snubbed its invitation. With all due respect, the Force will
not be party to ridiculing the system and as such, will see to the
law taking its cause”.

Efforts to reach Senator Misau for his own reaction to the
allegation of perjury turned out to be futile, as calls made to his
mobile phone line by our correspondent was not picked or returned.
Also, text message sent to him demanding for reaction was not
replied.

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) had on August 27, 2017 2declared
Misau, a deserter or a fugitive on the ground he is still a Police
officer who abandoned his job since 2010.

The Force PRO, CSP Moshood, told journalists in Abuja that they
are currently investigating the lawmaker, including those involved
in the alleged forgery of his retirement letter from the service,
including an official of the Police Service Commission, Mrs. Garos
Logams, who allegedly signed the document.

But in a swift reaction, Senator Misau dismissed the allegation,
insisting that he properly retired voluntarily from the Force in
2010 and even paid the Police one month salary as the law
requires.

Misau also explained that the letter of his retirement given to
him in 2014 by the PSC followed his own letter, declaring his
intention to retire written to them since 2010.

But the Force PRO, while explaining that the Senator was still
an officer of the Force, said, “Misau, a former Deputy
Superintendent of Police, refused to proceed on Junior Command
Course 49/2008 at Staff College, Jos, between January 5, 2009 and
June 19, 2009 and also failed to report in Niger State in 2010 and
was subsequently queried, in line with the Public Service Rules
Sections 030301(b)(g)(m)&(o) and
030402(a)(b)(c)(e)&(w).

“The retirement letter presented to journalists by DSP Mohammed
Hamman is suspiciously forged and dubiously obtained. The letter,
which was dated March 5, 2014, a period of more than four years
after AP No 57300 DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman (Senator Isah Hamman
Misau) deserted the Force is now being investigated by the Force.
His name is still on their staff roll”.

On why it took the Police seven years to declare Misau a
deserter, CSP Moshood said there was no time limit for a deserter
to be investigated and punished, noting that Misau’s case file was
still before the Force Disciplinary Committee.

But addressing a press conference at the National Assembly,
Misau displayed the letter with which his retirement from the force
was effected by the Police Service Commission.

But hitting back at the lawmaker that same day, the Police
implored the Senate to send Misau back to his duty post as Deputy
Superintended of Police.

The Force PRO, Mashood, maintained that Misau is still a police
officer and not a Senator because his name is still in the Police
as an officer of the Force.

He urged the Senate’s Ethics and Privileges committee to ask
Senator Misau to dress up in his Police uniform and appear before
the Police disciplinary committee to answer charges against
him.

CSP Moshood also asked the general public and the Red Chamber to
dismiss statements credited to Senator Misau as everything he has
said about the IGP and the police were false.

He said, “Senator Misau is a habitual and unrepentant liar. His
real name in the Police is DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman, with Police
number AP No. 57300. He is still a Police officer and not a Senator
because as his name still in the Police nominal roll.

‘’Senate will do the nation good by asking him to return to the
Nigeria Police Force to face disciplinary committee and answer all
the charges bordering on serious misconduct, unprofessional
wrongdoings as earlier contained in our press statement released
today.

‘’We want the public to know that he is not fit and proper to be
a senator of the federal republic of Nigeria; because that
purported retirement letter he displayed today was forged. That his
forged letter is dated 2014, whereas he contested the 2011 general
election. He is wanted by the force for forgery and desertion which
are all criminal offences in the Nigeria law books.

‘’All DSP Hamman was saying were cheap blackmail, distraction
and deliberate acts to derail investigation. So, the force will
want the Senate Ethics and Privileges committee, which we have
confidence and trust in, to see reason to ask him to dress up in
his Police uniform to come and appear before Police disciplinary
committee to answer charges against him”.

Meanwhile, a source in the Senate who do not want to be
mentioned in print has said that the Red Chamber will as soon as it
resumes to plenary session on 19th of this month direct its Ethics
and Privileges committee to investigate the allegations leveled
against Misau as well as that by Misau against the Nigeria Police
Force.

Speaking with LEADERSHIP Sunday, the source who does not want
his name in print said, “I can assure you that the senate will
within the first few days of its resumption directs its Ethics and
Privileges Committee to investigate allegations made by police
against Senator Misau, just as it will direct the Police Committee
to confirm allegations made by Senator Misau against the Nigeria
police force.

‘’These allegations made from hindsight of information or by the
privilege of insider’s knowledge can’t just be waved aside. Senate
will as usual come home with the truth irrespective of the fact
that one of its own is involved, or anybody for that matter in
concerned”.

Culled: LEADERSHIP