House Committee Members Walk Out On Inspector General Of Police Because He Refused To Properly Address Speaker Tambuwal

The Inspector general of police, Sulaiman
Abba, appeared before the House of
Representatives Police Committee today
after several days of ignoring their invitation. The
meeting chaired by Usman Bello Kumo quickly
denigrated into bad blood between committee
members and the IGP.
The IG had opened his statement explaining why
the police incaded the house last week by rehashing
the initial police statement that they had credible
intelligence that some thugs had planned on causing
mayhem at the resumed sitting of the house.
He said this intelligence led them to send policemen
to the house to confront that thugs.
He proceeded to say that one Alhaji Aminu
Tambuwal led a group of thugs to overpower the
security at the first gate. A move he claimed led the
police to lock down the second gate and fire a
canister of teargas.
However, his reference to the “Speaker of the
House as “one Alhaji Tambuwal” drew the ire of
committee members who asked the IGP to
properly address the speaker of the house according
to protocol.
The house committee members asked the IGP to
revisit the way he addressed the speaker, the IG
then said the case of the speaker was in court and as
such he wouldn’t like to comment further on it.
The committee member refused to proceed with the
hearing until the IGP properly addressed the
speaker. They said as long as he refuses to do so,
they too would no longer recognize him as IG.