N120bn Bribe: Appear Before Us Or Face Arrest, Senate Warns IGP Idris

The senate committee set up to probe Ibrahim Idris, Inspector-General of Police, IGP, has threatened to issue a warrant for his arrest if he fails to honour its summons.

The committee was set up following allegations made by senator representing Bauchi central, Isah Misau, of collecting money illegally from police officers and some oil companies amounting to a sum of N120 billion naira.

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The IGP was also accused of illegally having an affair with a junior female officer, against the rule of the force.

Despite his denial of the allegations, the IGP was summoned by the senate committee led by Senator Francis Alimikhena.

At the hearing on Wednesday, Senator Alimikhena said Idris’s lawyer informed him that his client would not appear because the case is in court.

“Part of the reason why we are inviting the IG has to do with the issue of virement of 2016 and 2017 appropriation act and the oversight raised by senator Misau,” he said.

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The chairman said if he failed to appear before the committee, section 89(d) of the 1999 constitution (as amended) would be invoked on him.

The provision states that “the senate or the house of representatives or a committee appointed in accordance with section 62 of this constitution shall have power to issue a warrant to compel the attendance of any person who, after having been summoned to attend, fails, refuses or neglects to do so and does not excuse such failure, refusal or neglect to the satisfaction of the house or the committee in question”.

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