Police IG Ibrahim Kpotun Idris.
Afeez Hanafi
The Peace Corps of Nigeria on Tuesday
urged the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to respect the
ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja which held that its headquarters
be unsealed.
The PCN also asked the police to comply with the court ruling, stopping the force from harassing peace corps members.
The Lagos and South-West zonal
Commandant of the peace corps, Mr. Mutairu Habib, in a statement on
Tuesday, said the police had refused to obey the court order.
He said, “As you are all aware, after
the passing of the Peace Corps Bill by the National Assembly, there was
an unwarranted invasion and sealing of our headquarters and arbitrary
arrest of our National Commandant, Mr. Dickson Akoh, and about 49 others
on February 17, 2017 by officers of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja.
“To end this retrogressive trend, a
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, presided over by Justice Gabriel
Kolawole, ordered last Thursday that the building be unsealed within
seven days. The court also ruled that the sum of N12.5m be paid to us in
damages.
“We, hereby, call on the
Inspector-General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force to respect the
court order and desist from unnecessary harassment and intimidation of
our members, unseal our headquarters, and pay the damages as instructed
by the court.”
Habib stated that the PCN was not in
rivalry with other security agencies, urging President Muhammadu Buhari
to assent to the Peace Corps Bill.
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