HOUSE OF REPS DECLARED IGP 'PERSONA NON GRATA' FOR NOT ADDRESSING MR SPEAKER PROPERLY !

The Inspector general of police, Sulaiman Abba, appeared before the House of Representatives Police Committee today after several days of ignoring their invitation. The meeting chaired by Usman Bello Kumo quickly denigrated into bad blood between committee members and the Inspector General of Police

The IG had opened his statement explaining why the police invaded the house last week by rehashing the initial police statement that some thugs had planned on causing mayhem at the resumed sitting of the house.
He went further to say that ‘one Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal ‘led a group of thugs to overpower the security at the first gate. However, his reference to the “Speaker of the House of Representative of a Federal Republic  as “one Alhaji Tambuwal” drew the ire of committee members who asked the IGP to properly address the  Mr. Speaker  according to protocol, which the IGP refused  and said the case of the speaker was in court and as such he wouldn’t like to comment further on it.

However, the committee members refused to proceed with the hearing until the IGP properly addressed the speaker. They said as long as he refuses to do so, they too would no longer recognize him as the Inspector General of Police!

The prolonged argument brought the meeting to a standstill and eventually a rancorous end as committee members walked out on the IGP.