Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris (photograph: )
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has filed a swimsuit towards the Senate and its president, Bukola Saraki, difficult his summons by the crimson chamber.
The police boss, in a swimsuit marked FHC/ABJ/ CS/ 457/2018, is searching for an injunctive order of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court restraining the Senate and Saraki from insisting that he should seem earlier than the lawmakers.
Idris, explaining why he didn't honour the invite, mentioned he had been directed by the President to be among the many presidential entourage embarking on a two-day official journey to Bauchi and subsequently on the mentioned April 26, 2018, he was in Bauchi on project.
In the swimsuit filed by his counsel, Dr Alex Izinyon, The IGP urged the courtroom to declare that the letters inviting him by the Senate dated April 25, 2018 and April 26, 2018, referring to pending legal proceedings towards Senator Dino Melaye in courtroom of legislation is past its powers underneath part 88 of the 1999 Constitution and similar is opposite to the Senate Standing Order, 2015, and the supply of part 6(6) (b) of the 1999 Constitution, and, subsequently null, void and of no impact.
In an 11-paragraph affidavit in assist to the swimsuit, the IGP mentioned within the letter dated April 26, 2018, with the heading “Invitation to brief the Senate on the inhuman treatment of Senator Dino Melaye over a matter that is pending in Court,” it clearly confirmed that the Senate is conscious that the mentioned Senator Dino Melaye is going through legal cost in a courtroom of legislation and that he's not answerable to the Senate however to the Judicial Arm of Government making an attempt the matter.