The House of Representatives has urged the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris Kpotum (IGP) to make an unreserved apology to the Benue state Governor, Mr. Samuel Ortom after the derogatory statements made by Police Public Relations Officer (PRO),\u00a0Mr. Jimoh\u00a0Moshood calling the governor \u201ca drowning man\u201d was discussed at the plenary. The House also urged the IGP to relieve its first PRO his position as penalty for the gravity of his utterances.<\/p>\n
Presenting his motion on the floor of the House, Hon. Mark\u00a0Gbillah\u00a0(APC:Benue) recalled that the Senate had issued a 14 day ultimatum to the Inspector General of Police\u00a0(IGP) to apprehend perpetrators of the Benue State massacre of 1st<\/sup> January 2018. Hon. Gbillah also recollected that the ultimatum was in response to the outcry by Nigerians and the indigenes of Benue State who had denounced the killings of 73 of their indigenes by suspected herdsmen in\u00a0Guma and\u00a0Logo local governments Areas.<\/p>\n Speaking further, the lawmaker said that recent media reports indicated that the IGP\u00a0had blamed\u00a0the recent killings in Benue State on a law passed by its State House of Assembly which prohibits the open grazing of cattle and had called for its suspension by the State government. He concluded his debate by calling on IGP to make an unreserved apology.<\/p>\n Hon. O.K Chinda (PDP: Rivers) also contributed to the motion by reflecting that peace and security could not be guaranteed where there is no justice and urged law enforcement agencies to ensure justice when enforcing the letters of the law.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The House of Representatives has urged the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris Kpotum (IGP) to make an unreserved apology to the Benue state Governor, Mr. Samuel Ortom after the derogatory statements made by Police Public Relations Officer (PRO),\u00a0Mr. Jimoh\u00a0Moshood calling the governor \u201ca drowning man\u201d was discussed at the plenary. The House also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IGP-300x152.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 8, 2018","modified":"Updated on February 8, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 8, 2018 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on February 8, 2018 12:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}