Attempts by the Nigeria Police to unravel an alleged spy ring run by the Russia KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) is yielding no result.
The police were called into action following a petition by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan based on a WhatsApp group post by her colleague Senator Sunday Karimi (Kogi West). According to the petition dated March 5, 2025, Akpoti-Uduaghan who is on a six-month suspension from the Senate, had asked the police to investigate claim by her counterpart from Kogi West that the KGB has infiltrated the National Assembly, thus posing a serious threat to the nation’s democratic processes.
Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, in the petition, had alleged that Senator Karimi shared a report titled: “KGB agent warns Senate: A call for vigilance amidst threats to democracy” on the official WhatsApp group of the 10th Senate on February 23, 2025.
In her petition, the Kogi Central lawmaker asked the Police not to treat the alarm raised by Senator Karimi with levity, saying “No nation can afford to ignore the presence of such a group within its legislative body.”
Further investigations showed that Senator Karimi appeared at Louis Edet, Police headquarters on Monday where he was allegedly quizzed concerning the petition following police invitation.
Sources at the Police headquarter said Karimi owned up to the post on the 10th Senate’s WhatsApp platform saying he meant no harm.
The source claimed that after the session with Senator Karimi, the police wanted to hear from Akpoti-Uduaghan, but she had not come forward.
However when contacted, the Kogi Central lawmaker dismissed the claim’
Akpoti-Uduaghan claimed she hasn’t been invited of recent by the Police after Senator Karimi’s summon.
She said: “Apart from being invited to adopt my petition, I haven’t been invited.”
