Rejoinder: BPE Has Complied With All Orders, Directives Of The Courts On ALSCON – Okoh

RE: ALSCON: Court Threatens To Jail BPE DG

The Bureau’s attention has been drawn to a Premium Times publication of Tuesday, 23^rd April, 2019 with the headline: ALSCON: Court threatens to jail BPE DG.

Although we believe that the Premium Times publication falls far short of accepted standards of balanced and responsible journalism, we shall refrain from making detailed comments here since the issues erroneously reported in the article are pending before a competent Court of law and as such are subjudice. The Bureau will respect the authority of the courts and not litigate on the pages of newspapers. 

However, it is important to stress that the Bureau as a responsible law abiding agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria has complied with all orders and directives of the Courts as regards ALSCON.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Amina Tukur Othman
Head, Public Communications
April 26, 2019.