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The House of Representatives has ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Idris Ibrahim, to unseal the National Headquarters of Peace Corps of Nigeria within 21 days.

This follows the recommendation by the House Committee on Public Petitions, which conducted investigative hearing into the “illegal” closure of Peace Corps facilities and the alleged disobedience to subsisting court orders to unseal the premises.

Peace Corps facilities located at number 57, Iya Abubakar Crescent, off Alex Ekwueme street, opposite Jabi lake, Abuja, had been under lock and keys by the police since February 28th, 2017, the day the property was commissioned.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of Federal High Court, Abuja, had on the 9th November 2017, ordered that the office be unsealed, while awarding N12.5m damages against the Police.

In a similar development, Justice John Tsoho of another division of Federal High Court Abuja, had also, on the 15th January, 2018, given judgement that Police should vacate the Peace Corps office.

None of the judgements was obeyed and no valid stay of execution was obtained by the Police whose operatives and vehicles are permanently stationed at the premises.

Irked by the development, a group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Justice and Equity, petitioned the National Assembly, urging it to intervene in order “to save our democracy and insist on rule of law.”

Presenting the report of the investigation to the plenary on Wednesday, Chairman of the House Committee on Public Petitions, Hon. Nkem Abonta, said series of invitations were sent to the Inspector-General of Police to appear before the committee but he refused to honour.

Abonta also said, the committee obtained a document which showed that, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami wrote to the IGP and advised him to honour the subsisting court orders, “in absence of any appeal or valid stay of execution.”

He told the House that, a legal officer who represented the IGP at public hearing committed perjury, stressing that, “he lied under oath that there was a valid stay of execution”, but when time was given that he produced a proof of stay, he could not produce any.

Abonta expressed concern that, it would spell doom for Nigerian democracy and it would also give room to anarchy, if “an agency of the Federal Government (police) continues to disobey orders of the court.”

While adopting the recommendation of the committee, the House urged Police to comply with the subsisting court orders and the instruction from the AGF.

The police have 21 days from the commencement of Wednesday’s plenary, to vacate the properties of Peace Corps.



http://dailypost.ng/2018/05/09/breaking-reps-order-police-vacate-peace-corps-office-within-21-days/

let see if they are going to obey

Futile effort

banana republic

Hmmmm, So there's a lot of BEEF already for IGP

Like leaders, like followers!

They do not obey court orders!!

Legislative Vs IGP

DICKSON AKOH HV IS WINNING OH.......UP PEACE CORP

Do Nigeria police even obey court orders this days ?

What type of country are we in?

Nobody is obeying court order again.... I remember who started it.

But shay buhari never approve them na, so why will they have and run offices?

N

Story! Police that didn't obey Buhari and Senate. Is it just 'mere' house of rep members they will obey?

He has bitten more than he can chew

21 days is too much na, that's not an order, that's a plea. Smh

Naija na do as u like, very soon am going to marry my guy, let me see who we arrest me, that day heads we roll

Na today?

will they listen? if the order is not from their oga, they won't vacate. the country don scatter finish. Idris don talk am....Nigeria jagajaga, everything scatter scatter

If you want peace corps vote out buhari

Sagay212:
will they listen? if the order is not from their oga, they won't vacate. the country don scatter finish. Idris don talk am....Nigeria jagajaga, everything scatter scatter

Even the IGP believe his now above the Nigeria law

lecowas:
21 days is too much na, that's not an order, that's a plea. Smh

21 gini? They for give am the whole year. Mtcheeeew!! Unserious set of people.

Lawless country.

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And somebody opened her big smelling mouth here that people should not travel to canada or immigrate from Nigeria..thunder when go kill her go belike the stone when kill Goliath...

Fake news

lecowas:
21 days is too much na, that's not an order, that's a plea. Smh

Exactly

Kingspin:
What type of country are we in?

Just three years down Buhari's rullership questions like yours, and others like what happenened? How did we get here such that we are finding it difficult to turn round? Answers to questions like yours and other similar ones are caused by this Buhari rulllership. The worst is that this man who have supporters are just willing to finish up this country by getting prepared to contest come 2019. Another four years of the same Buhari? No way. When everything, as in the totality of this country is at the lowest llevel. When there is total disobidience of laws and court order? When the constitution is completely undermined? When an appointee, IGP gives no damn to a country's elected Senate while the appointor is looking opposite? Another four years of the same leadership when killing is recorded as the worst in the history of this country since independence? Unless there is no God.
When the democracy is brought back to where we started and even worse off?

why is the senate trying to stop the police from doing their job....??

this dont make sense......

why is the senate fighting against the police.....?