I have no Question to Answer: Ibrahim Idris IGP

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, yesterday showed up before a Senate board testing the assertions leveled against him by Senator Isah Hamma Misau (APC, Bauchi) yet said he would not answer any inquiry.

The board director Senator Francis Alimikhena (APC, Edo) had, subsequent to presenting the individuals from the board, requested that the IGP talk, saying "The claims are too profound to possibly be hidden where no one will think to look."

In any case, the IGP's legal counselor, Alex A. Izinyon (SAN), who sat adjacent to his customer, said "I will jump at the chance to declare my appearance." The board director asked the attorney: "Would you say you are the IGP?"

Right now, the IGP stated: "I won't make any oral remark or answer any inquiry in regard of the claims in perspective of the different common and criminal cases pending in the law courts.

"All the more particularly when the congressperson has just been summoned in court in regard of this issue. I chose to show up before this Senate Committee on the assertions out of high regard I have for the Senate and my regard for the run of law.

"Besides, it is normal that the Senate and the Committee will forgo influencing references to the issues as it to will be against Order 41 (7) and 53 (5) of the Senate Standing Orders 2 (15) as corrected.

Additionally, his legal counselor told the board that they have reacted to the claims in records submitted to it, demanding that his customer has nothing to stow away.

Reacting, Alimikhena said the advisory group was constituted before the IGP went to the court and that, "as it were the court is meddling with the panel's activity."

An individual from the board, Senator Hope Uzodinma, told the attorney that the Senate was not a courtroom, saying if the Senate had issued a capture warrant against the IGP, he should bring himself. Notwithstanding, Senator Obinna Ogba recommended that the advisory group "ought to go and think about the archives presented by the IGP and if require be we can welcome him once more."

The supplication was acknowledged by the board.

In his end comment, Alimikhena said "We are not imploring you, you should come on the off chance that we welcome you once more."

In the interim, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, praised the council, including, "We value the dismissal, it would empower us to seek after the multi entryway alternatives to settle the issue."