The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, is
expected to appear before the Senate on Tuesday to defend the role of the
police in the crisis rocking Rivers state.
The Senate spokesman, Enyinnaya Abaribe, who dislosed this
to journalists after the upper chamber’s plenary on Wednesday, said the
legislators had invited the police chief to come and address it on the matter.
“The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, will
appear before the Senate next week Tuesday to explain the role of the police in
the Rivers State crisis,” he said.
The oil-rich state has witnessed series of crises in the
past months in which the state governor, Rotimi Amaechi and many Nigerians, have
accused the police of taking side.
Many individuals, groups and the All Progressives Congress,
APC, have called for the sack or redeployment of the state Police Commissioner, Joseph
Mbu, over the matter.
He was accused of preventing supporters of the state
governor from holding rallies while public meeting held to tackle the governor
are given police protection.
Governor Amaechi, Chairman of Nigeria's Governors' Forum, who recently crossed from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC, was believed to be at logger heads with the Presidency over the control of the state.
Nigeria's First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, is from the state.
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