Police raid Edwin Clark’s Abuja home for arms

Men of the Nigeria Police Force, Tuesday, raided the Abuja home of elder statesman, Edwin Clark allegedly in search for arms.

According to the police men, they were looking for arms allegedly kept in the house by Clark, a former Federal Commissioner for Information.

All the rooms in the Asokoro District Abuja home were searched. No arms or ammunition was however found.

The Policemen, reportedly acting on the orders of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, stormed the house at about 1.30pm and left the premises at about 2.30pm.

It was gathered, that the policemen who claimed to be members of the IGP Tactical team were armed with a search warrant from a magistrates’ courts in Abuja.

They reportedly smashed phones of workers and relatives of the elder statesman who tried to capture the incident on video and threatened to beat them until the clips were deleted.

 

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