Worried by the continued detention of some of their legislative aides by the Police, the Kogi State House of Assembly member representing Lokoja II constituency, Hon. Idris Ndako has demanded for the immediate release of all the detained legislative aides.
Addressing newsmen in Lokoja, Ndako condemned in strong terms the illegal arrest and detention of four legislative aides on account of disrupting the sitting of the house members last week, adding that they were aides and were arrested at Crusher village while waiting for their principals who resumed on Thursday.
The workers, according to the lawmaker, were standing beside the cars of their principals when the police swooped on them and took them away.
He said: “That is why we keep telling the police to work with their own intelligence, and not rely on the one given to them by some people. They have been giving the police wrong information with the intention is to destroy the G15.
“The security forces do not have credible information that is why they arrested wrong people.
“Imagine, the police claimed that the four men were suspected to have come disrupted our sitting. How can my personal assistant who drove me to the assembly complex turn to be a thug? After all, our sitting that day was peaceful. Except that the police wanted to lock us out. The police must have acted on a script”.
Recall that the State Police Command had on Thursday said it arrested four suspected thugs at Kogi assembly complex.
While parading the suspects at the command headquarters in Lokoja, the state Commissioner of Police, Yakubu Usman stated that he had a distress call that thugs have invaded the house of assembly.
Credit: The Nation
