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Friday, 21 November 2014

President Jonathan Summons IG of Police Over National Assembly Bruohaha


President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday summoned the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, over the fracas witnessed at the National Assembly on Thursday. Policemen and women had blocked the entrance of the National Assembly complex to prevent lawmakers from accessing their offices and chambers. Most of the lawmakers, who scaled the fence, were tear-gassed by policemen acting on order from above.
 
To address the crisis, Abba was summoned to the office of the Vice President Namadi Sambo at the State House, Abuja. After about one hour closed-door meeting, the IGP emerged from the meeting and parried most of the questions thrown at him by journalists. The Nation disclosed the encounter is as follows:
Did you authorise the invasion of the National Assembly by your men?
IGP: "Who did what and who didn’t do what will be disclosed to you later. You know we work with investigations, investigations are going on and the press officer will address you."
Are you saying you are not aware of this operation?
IGP: "I still repeat who did what, who didn’t do what you will hear later, it is subject to investigations. We just don’t talk anyhow.”
Another interview with the Hausa service at the State House follows:
Is it true that some of your police officers were injured?
IGP: "Everybody has seen that somebody was even beating somebody, somebody was pushing a policeman from the car.
"Somebody was removing road blocks mounted by police, we have never seen this kind of thing in the whole world. So we will talk to you later."
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