The Force Headquarters is yet to restore any security details to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, over one week after it said he would be given police protection.
Instead, it said on Sunday that Tambuwal should apply for police details if he needed any.
Shortly after he emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2015 election in Sokoto State, the police said they would give Tambuwal and all other candidates protection.
However, the force headquarters clarified that it would do so not because it recognised Tambuwal as the speaker but because of his emergence as a governorship candidate.
Force Police Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, had stated, “The police will do the needful in protecting Alhaji Tambuwal and all other contestants.”
But, over one week after it made the promise, the force headquarters made a U-turn on Sunday.
Ojukwu now said there was no automatic protection for any candidate, adding that anybody desirous of police protection should apply for it.
He noted that policemen had a lot of work to do and would not run after politicians asking whether they needed protection.
“It is the duty of the police to provide protection for all aspirants but they have to apply to be given police operatives.
“We have enough work on our hands and we cannot be running after candidates who need our protection.
“All candidates must apply for police protection”, Ojukwu told one of our correspondents in Abuja.
But, Tambuwal reacted that he would not join issues with the police over their latest stance.
He recalled that the same police had long failed to obey an order of court, saying that “statusquo should be maintained” over the withdrawal of his security details.
“We don’t want to join issues with the Police.
“There is a court order saying status quo should be maintained, but they chose to flaunt the order”, His Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Imam Imam, said on Sunday.
The police had withdrawn Tambuwal’s security details soon after he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress on October 28.
The police claimed that they acted in line with Section 68 (g)(1) of the 1999 Constitution, a provision that allows defection only on grounds of divisions in a political party.
The speaker has since challenged the police action before an Abuja Federal High Court. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Worthless police force. Worthless inspector general. Mr IG, you and your force should concentrate your effort on collecting money from drivers on the road. You thieves took N15,000 from me last week at Ihiala in Anambra state, even though all my papers were intact and promptly presented on demand. The beneficiaries of the money that was taken from me will never do well in life. The officers and their families will go down in the pit of hell.
ReplyDeleteAmen.....and amen again
DeleteMy friend if your papers were complete and up to date,be sure you didn't commit any other offence. Then you willingly wanted to let them have your 15k,why didn't you opt to be charged with an offence and then go to court?
DeleteThis issue is that we Nigerians want on the spot Justice and that's what the police is capitalising on.
Don't abuse the IG. His explanation is simple. Apply for protection if you need one.
ReplyDeleteTambuwal, god is your protection just leave that fool lG very soon when we send his Oga packing from Aso-rock come feb, he will come begging like a dog.
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