Reps pass ‘vote of no confidence’ on IGP Idris over herdsmen killings, insecurity

President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to sack the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, for his obvious “lack of capacity” to handle security challenges besieging the country.

The development was the resolution of the House of Representatives when it sat on Wednesday, pointing in particular, to what lawmakers said is the IGP’s failure to address the killings in Benue State and insecurity in Kano State.

The lawmakers in their resolution said, “We call on Mr. President to replace the IGP with a more professional officer.”

The resolution followed a debate on two motions by the lawmakers. While one of the debates bordered on the killings by herdsmen in Benue State, the other was on the “need to curb thuggery development in political activities in Kano and Nigeria in general.”

Mr. Mark Terseer-Gbillah, a Reps members from Benue State moved the motion on the killings by herdsmen while Mr. Abubakar Danburam-Nuhu, from Kano State, moved that of thuggery.

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Subsequently, the lawmakers ammended the two motions to one, leading them to resolve that the IGP be shown the exit door.

Speaker Yakubu Dogara, while ruling on the motion told his coleagues, “If we pass this amendment, it means that the entire House has passed a vote of no confidence on the IGP. I will go ahead and put the question since that is the decision of the House.”

After the lawmakers resolved that the IGP be sacked, they went further to direct that he should without delay apologise to the Governor of Benue State, Mr. Samuel Ortom, over a statement made by the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Jimoh Moshood, calling the governor a “drowning man.”

 

 

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