Breaking: Inspector General of Police orders arrest of speaker TambuwalThe Inspector General of Police, Abba Sulaiman may have given orders for thearrest of Speaker of the House of RepresentativesHon Aminu WaziriTambuwal, Daily Trust has learnt.Sources told Daily Trust a similar order has been handed down to theDepartment of State Security (DSS.)The orders were given following the fracas that broke out at the NationalAssembly on Thursday where members of the House of Representativeswereconfronted by armed security personnel who threw canisters of teargas at thespeaker and other lawmakers to stop them from accessing the parliamentbuilding.The speaker and some of his colleagues who supported him beat the securitycordon and later held a brief plenary thereby stopping some members in theirtracks who had gathered protected by scores of Police and DSS operatives toinitiate impeachment proceedings against the leadership of the House.Sources at the Police headquarters revealed that the Police chief gave theorder for Tambuwals arrest after a meeting with Vice President NamadiSambo and the National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki.I can confirm to you that the order for hisarrest has been given today(Friday). The signal from the IGs office specifically directed the FCT andSokoto State commissioners of Police to serve Tambuwal with notice ofinvitation to the force headquarters and if he resists, he should be arrestedimmediately, “the source revealed.The involvement of Sokoto CP was because the Speaker was sighted inSokoto on Friday where he picked the All Progressive Congress (APC)governorship form for the coming elections. It was assumed that he was outof Abuja as such other police divisions were involved in the matter.Sources at the meeting in Villa indicate that both the Vice President and theNSA chastised the Police boss for the failure of his men to prevent Speakerfrom entering the national assembly premises.The NSA was particularly angry and told the IG in clear terms that he doesntknow his job. He said how did the Speakerand the members break a cordonorganised by the FCT Police commissioner. The NSA then made it clearthatthe Police authorities must rectify the anomalies or they will face theconsequences. The IG then said Tambuwalwill be arrested for questioning.”
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:23:06 +0000
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