A former governorship candidate in Zamfara State, Sani Shinkafi, has written a petition to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olatunji Disu, and also copied the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCID, and the Interpol National Central Bureau, NCB, to investigate and prosecute the allegations of cybercrime, harassment and defamation of character by a China-based social media influencer Bello Galadanchi also known as Danbello.
The petition also forwarded to the Director/Commissioner, Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre, NPF-NCCC, was also written on behalf of former Governor, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, Abdulkarim Tsafe and one other.
Danbello is said to have falsely circulated a what the petitioner described as a politically motivated video clips on social media that portrayed Senator Yari to have diverted N1.7 trillion from the federation account through Ajap Financial Services and Tsafe.
The petitioner told the security agencies that the said video has damaged the reputations of Yari and others and brought them to ridicule before right-thinking members of the public.
The petition said, “We hereby forward a petition to your esteemed office to discreetly make a comprehensive investigation, if found culpable, prosecute one Bello Galadanchi popularly called “Danbello” based in the Republic of China for grievous allegations of cybercrime and breach of fundamental human rights as prescribed in Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, targeting His Excellency, Senator Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari, Abdulkarim Tsafe and Board of Directors of Ajap Financial Services Limited.
“The 1999 Constitution
