The Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, has instructed the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) to assume control of the ongoing investigation into the suspected poisoning of Tourism Minister Lola Ade-John. The Minister is currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre.
According to SP Josephine Adeh, the Public Relations Officer of the FCT Police Command, the decision was disclosed in an exclusive telephone interview with a correspondent on Saturday. She mentioned that the Mabushi Police Division, which was initially handling the case, had been directed by the CP to transfer it to the SCID.
WE reported that Ade-John, 60, who was appointed as a minister by President Bola Tinubu in August, has been hospitalised in Abuja after being said to have suffered acute poisoning from an unknown origin, as her family members fear that time was running against their efforts to save her life.
It was learnt that the minister was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, shortly after she started manifesting symptoms of illness, according to family sources familiar with her ordeal. She had spent five days at the facility as of Saturday morning, our correspondent gathered.
Officials at the FMC could not be reached as they did not respond to phone calls and text messages from our correspondent.
