The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, said on Wednesday that he has dispatched a Deputy Inspector General of Police to Port Harcourt, Rivers State to investigate the reported fracas in the state’s House of Assembly on Tuesday.
Abubakar spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting with Vice President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Caleb Olubolade, also attended the meeting.
While insisting that the police has the responsibility to protect citizens, Abubakar, however, promised that after thorough investigation, any policeman or officer that is found wanting in the crisis will be sanctioned accordingly.
He said: “You see, the police have a responsibility to protect the citizen of this country but remember, we saw the video clip and you saw those who went to the Assembly.
“I think you should be asking: who were those who went to the Assembly and why they went to the assembly?
“We are investigating that matter and whoever is found wanting will be sanctioned.”
Mohammed also claimed not to be aware of the reported attack on the Government on Wednesday, insisting no rationale Commissioner of Police will allow his men to do that.
He said: “That is not true.
“No reasonable Commissioner of Police will go and tear gas a Government House.
“It is not true.”
Responding to a question that the police are being dragged into politics, the IGP said: “You are free to make allegations but the allegation must be substantiated that yes, he has done something stupid.
“I have not gotten any written documentation that accused the Commissioner of Police of one particular offence till today.”
Asked for his view on the conduct of the Rivers State Commissioner of Police in the political crisis in the state so far, Mohammed asked: “What conduct?”
He then added: “I am not in Port Harcourt and I am investigating.
“I have sent a DIG in charge of operations.
“He is in Port Harcourt and he will brief me about the happenings and the action taken by police in Rivers State and necessary action will be taken against anybody who has anything to defend.”
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