{"id":60071,"date":"2017-11-01T21:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=60071"},"modified":"2017-11-01T21:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:40:52","slug":"senate-threatens-arrest-inspector-general-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/senate-threatens-arrest-inspector-general-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Threatens To Arrest Inspector General of Police\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate has threatened to issue arrest warrant against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, for failing to appear before its ad-hoc committee investigating allegations of abuse of office against him.<\/div>\n
The Chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Sen. Francis Alimikhena, issued the threat when the IGP failed to appear before the committee\u00a0on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n
Alimikhena, who is also the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, said the IGP was summoned on Oct. 16 to answer allegations made against him by Sen. Isah Misau (APC-Bauchi).<\/div>\n
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Alimikhena said rather than honour the invitation, his lawyer, Alex Iziyon, wrote to the committee informing it that the matter was already in court.<\/div>\n
He said \u201d nobody, including court, can stop the Senate from carrying out its constitutional duties.<\/div>\n
\u201dThe separation of powers guaranteed by law, made it explicit that the Senate cannot be prevented in carrying out its constitutional duties by any other arm of government.<\/div>\n
\u201dIf the IGP fails to appear on\u00a0Nov. 7<\/span><\/span>, the committee would invoke Section 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to compel him to appear.<\/div>\n
\u201dHe will be summoned again and must appear next\u00a0Tuesday, 7th of November<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n
\u201dWe got a letter from his lawyer, Alex Iziyon, that he will not appear before this committee. He said the IGP has already gone to court and appearing will be subjudice.\u201d<\/div>\n
He said there was no way the IGP\u2019s appearance before the committee would amount to contempt as committee was set up before he went to court.<\/div>\n
\u201dWe cannot be stopped. No court can stop us from carrying out our duties. There is separation of powers. No court can stop us.<\/div>\n
\u201cThere are issues about virement in the 2017 budget which Misau also raised. We need him to respond to these allegations.<\/div>\n
\u201dWe will invite him again and he will appear before us. If he fails to appear, we will invoke Section 89 of the 1999 constitution, as amended.\u201d<\/div>\n
Sen. Misau had while testifying before the probe panel, claimed that the IGP purchased two jeeps for the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari.<\/div>\n
He also alleged that the IGP misused over N120 billion generated by the Force\u00a0in one year<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n
Misau equally alleged that the police boss got a serving police officer pregnant and hurriedly arranged a marriage ceremony in Kaduna.<\/div>\n
However,the Police boss, through the Force Spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, dismissed the claims as unfounded.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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