The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, on Friday justified the arrest of only suspects of Yoruba extraction over the recent clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State, which resulted in the death of about 46 persons. He said crime neither has tribe nor identity.

Idris spoke with State House correspondents shortly after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari of security situations in parts of the country inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The police had been in the eye of the storm for arresting and parading 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, over the clash while not a single Hausa/Fulani person was detained.

The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere; and the Oodua Peoples Congress are among groups and individuals that have been criticising the police over the development.

Idris however said the police would not hesitate to apply the law once criminal cases are established against individuals, irrespective of their tribe.

He said, “You know we are police officers. Crime has no tribe. If you are a criminal, you are a criminal.

“Crime has no face. We don’t look at crime in the identity of where you are coming from.

“As far as you are a criminal and the police find you wanting, we apply the law.”

He said investigation had revealed that the crisis started with a disagreement between two people selling food along the road.

Source from Punch Newspaper

Very good, the Inspector General of Police should hand them over to the Nigerian Army, so they can be properly handled. This country won't tolerate miscreants and thugs disturbing public peace.


Yoloba how far?

hahahahaha

Afonjas think Hausa-Fulani like them....you are just a willing tool to be used and discarded like a toilet paper!

The fight involved two group of people from different ethnicity. There is no justification for this one-sided arrest.

This sectarian government is persecuting Nigerians through Hausa/Fulani nuisance, terror herdsmen and the security agencies that aid and abet them.

IGP it seems you look and sounds biased

This is what will bring this administration down.

sarrki:
IGP it seems you look and sounds biased

Sharap Buhari/igp is always right

One Nigeria is a fake. Yoruba ronu.

Nonsense ...I hail my able buratai boys
Arrest those ile ife criminals threatening our national security and unity
@afonjas life na turn by turn

If only our Yoruba friends can jettison the toga of sophistication, liberalism and political correctness. The Nigerian system reeks of mendacious hypocrisy.
They need to see and voice out against this parochial and sacred cow tendencies of the current administration.

One Nigeria my foot!

You can't tell me afonjas are the only one involved in the mayhem... Oga be fair to both tribe pls ...If otherwise nothing like one Nigeria

Noted.

It is d turn of d Yorubas. Southerners wen una go wise

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What IPods saw while sitting down




One thousand Afonjas should climb an iroko tree they will never see it
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welcome to one Nigeria
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ettybaba:
This is what will bring this administration down.

Nothing will happen




sai one Nigeria
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An injury to ONE is an injury to ONE. Afonjas, how "marketi"?

Which Hausa person they will arrest. The Hausas that were throwing stones are either dead or in critical condition at OAU Teaching Hospital.