Eguaoje Funmilayo, the Force Criminal Investigation Department’s public relations officer, has told FIJ that the unit is not aware of the police’s case against Musa Salihu Mubarak, the former Kogi State governorship aspirant declared wanted in June.
Funmilayo told FIJ this on Friday, when this newspaper inquired about Mubarak’s whereabouts and the police’s current position on the man it sought to arrest.
“I am not aware of the case,” Funmilayo told FIJ via text. This was after a call failed to connect with the FCID PRO’s phone.
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says that the FCID is its highest investigating arm on its website.
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Funmilayo was not the only police PRO FIJ contacted for updates on Mubarak.
On Friday, FIJ called Muyiwa Adejobi, the force PRO, but he did not pick up his phone. Adejobi received this reporter’s message sent six days ago but has not responded, suggesting that he has no information about the case.
Kalu Chijioke Erem, the NPF’s staff officer for strategic communications, did not answer phone calls or respond to FIJ’s text.
Femi Adedeji, the editor of NPF’s publication The New Dawn, also failed to respond to phone calls and a text message on Friday.
The NPF declared Mubarak wanted on June 3 after he failed to honour the police’s invitations.

This declaration came two months after FIJ reported how Mubarak, the CEO of Almubee Group and Kogi governorship aspirant under the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), took N153 million from seven clients and refused to allocate the plots of land he agreed to offer them in the Wuye area of Abuja.
The police declared Mubarak wanted “for failing to honour police invitation over an allegation of obtaining money under false pretence, cheating and breach of trust”.
He remains at large.
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