The Conference of National
Assembly Legislative Aides (CONASSLA), a forum of current and former aides to
members of the national assembly, has asked Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of
police (IGP), to resign.
The IGP has failed to appear
before the senate on three occasions. He was summoned over the growing
insecurity in the country and the case of Dino Melaye, senator representing
Kogi west.
After failing to appear before
it, the senate declared the IGP an enemy of democracy who is unfit to hold
public office.
But in response, Idris said he
was being witch-hunted by the lawmakers.
In a statement on Sunday,
Abdullahi Al-Mustapha, chairman of CONASSLA, said the IGP should put aside his
“short-sighted interests and ego” and brief the senate on measures taken by the
police to end the killings across the across the country.
“People are dying and it is
shocking that the IGP is choosing to play politics with the lives of
Nigerians,” the statement read.
“By failing to appear before the
109 elected senators to brief them on what the Nigerian Police Force is doing
about the wanton and rampant killings across the country, the IGP is acting as
if he is doing the 180 million Nigerians a favour in his current position.
“If the chief law enforcement
officer of the federation is also now breaking the law by failing to appear
before the senate in-person, based on sections 88 and 89 of the 1999
constitution of Nigeria, what hope do we have as a country?
“We are sure that another reason
that the senators want to see him is to question him about how far the
investigation into the April 18th invasion of the senate chambers has gone.
“That was a huge embarrassment to
the nation, and the speculation that law enforcement officers were amongst the
so-called thugs that freely waltz into the upper legislative chamber must be
quickly investigated and verified or disproved. The complicity of our security
forces in this issue must be properly scrutinized.
“Now is the time to put Nigeria
first. If the IGP has gotten too big to adhere to the constitution and the
people that he has sworn to ‘serve and protect’, he should do us all a favour
and resign in favour of someone who is more law-abiding and respects the
gravity of the current security situation in the nation.”
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