Misau’s Allegation: I’ll Appear Before Senate – IGP

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, on Friday, said he will appear before the senate over allegations of corruption levelled against him by Senator representing Bauchi Central Federal Constituency, Isah Misau.

His statement comes few days after he shunned invitation by the senate ad-hoc committee investigating the allegations.

He however stated that his appearance at the senate was because of the respect he has for the upper chamber.

Recall that senator Misau had accused the IGP of bribery and corruption to the tune of N120 billion.

The IGP, who expressed his readiness to appear before the red chamber whenever invited while speaking with state house correspondent, further revealed that 21,000 Police officers will be deployed to Anambra State ahead of its November 18, 2017 elections.

Idris said, “These are legal issues, we are discussing with our legal team, obviously if there is need we are going to appear. For the sake of having respect for the Senate, I will appear before them.

“Obviously, I am here as usual to discuss with the Commander-in-Chief on the security challenges we are having and how we will face these security challenges adequately.

“Some of these security challenges are obvious; you know we are having elections in Anambra state and we are having challenges in various parts of the country, especially some of these issues of kidnapping and these are things I discussed with the President and the measures taken to address it squarely.

“We are deploying a lot of police officers, almost 21,000 police officers to be able to provide adequate security in the Anambra election. We are deploying our water boats to take care of the water ways, we are deploring our helicopters to take care of the aerial surveillance and we are deploying our conventional police men and special police units to take care of situations on ground and by the grace of God we are going to have a successful and peaceful elections in Anambra state.

“Kaduna-Abuja road; as you observed we have deplored our special units there and we have arrested several of these kidnappers and I want to appreciate the effort of the National Assembly for providing sort of a death penalty for suspects arrested involved in some of these cases of kidnapping and I’m sure that in a few weeks time we are going to have drastic fall in the report of some of these incidences of kidnapping on those areas because of this punishment that has been made into law now by the National Assembly.

“We are taking them to court on everyday basis. Presently, we have almost over 3,000 suspects in the various police stations all over the country and we are taking them to court. Recently, I set up a task force to sort of streamline or scrutinize these cases so that we have speedy trials of some of these suspects.”