- Senator Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Murray-Bruce who were captured on camera to have been involved in the disturbance of public peace and public safety, unlawful blockade of Shehu Shagari way for several hours preventing motorists, road users and other members of the public from having access and passage on the highway.
The Nigeria Police has invited Senator Bukola
Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Bruce for their involvement in the
disturbance of public peace and public safety, unlawful blockade of Shehu
Shagari way for several hours preventing motorists, road users and other
members of the public from having access and passage on the highway.
In a press release by the Police Public Relations
Officer Ag DCP Jimoh Moshood, he said that around 1.30pm, unruly
and violent protesters who are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in
their hundreds with thugs and miscreants inside several trucks and vehicles
blocked the Shehu Shagari way in front of the Nigeria Police Force,
Headquarters creating a gridlock of traffic on the highway and preventing
motorists, road users and other members of the public from having access and
passage on Shehu Shagari way thereby disturbing public peace and public safety
and causing innocent people to scamper for safety, suddenly the unruly/violent
protesters surge and rushed violently on the Policemen posted to ensure safety
of the Force Headquarters premises, pushing and hitting the Policemen to
forcefully enter the Force Headquarters to cause damage to Police equipment and
Government properties.
He further said that the Police team headed by a
very Senior Police Officer despite the provocation, after issuing words of
proclamation, warning this unruly PDP protesters who were chanting war songs of "we no go gree o, we no go gree, we no go gree", charged the Police personnel
who used minimum force and dispersed them.
"Senator Dino Melaye, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce
and others yet to be identified were recorded on Camera pushing Policemen to
forcefully enter the Force Headquarters to damage and destroy Police equipment
and Government properties while Senator Bukola Saraki was at the scene of the
attack in his car also captured on camera along with hundreds of miscreants and
thugs in the acts of disturbance of public peace and public safety, unlawful
blockade of Shehu Shagari way for several hours preventing motorists, road
users and other members of the public from having access and passage on the
highway thereby disturbing public peace and public safety and causing innocent
people to scamper for safety.
DCP Jimoh Moshood reiterated that the Inspector
General of Police has directed immediate investigation into this unprovoked and
unwarranted attack on the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force and the Force
Headquarters premises which is against the law and condemnable. He further said
that the Force will do everything within the law to bring all perpetrators of
this crime to justice, no matter how highly placed.
"Consequently, Senator Bukola Saraki, Senator
Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Bruce who were captured on camera to have been
involved in the disturbance of public peace and public safety, unlawful
blockade of Shehu Shagari way for several hours preventing motorists, road
users and other members of the public from having access and passage on the
highway thereby disturbing public peace and public safety and causing innocent
people to scamper for safety and violent attack on Policemen posted to ensure
security of the Force Headquarters, pushing and hitting the Policemen to
forcefully enter the Force Headquarters to cause damage to Police equipment and
Government properties are hereby invited to report themselves to the IGP
Monitoring Unit at the Force Headquarters on Monday, 8th October, 2018 for
investigation.
The Police therefore called on members of the public
in the FCT are implored to remain calm as the situation is under control.
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