The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris seems to be swimming in a crocodile infested water as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ntufam Mba Ekpezu Ukweni has advised the Nigerian Senate to issue warrant of arrest on the police boss for refusing to honour Senate’s invitation.

IGP Ibrahim Idris

Ukweni stated that; “His refusal to honour the invitation shows the character of the persons that are at the helm of affairs in public offices. If it is in a country where people abide by the laws, he is not even supposed to stay there the next moment. He supposed to have resigned on his own.”

“The option available to the Senate is still there in the law but the question is, Senate has the power to issue warrant for his arrest but who is going to enforce it?”

“That is the question, may be these are the areas he is capitalizing on, ‘let me see, I am the IGP, let me see a police man who will come and arrest me’.”

“That is the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is not a person, we personalize governance and every issue relating to governance and public interest are personalized.”

“If you make a statement that is in public interest, they personalize it that you are attacking the President. Even when issues you have raised are properly addressed and would assist in giving a direction to proper governance, they trivialize it and personalize it.

“That is why institutions become smaller than the people who occupy it; people who occupy public offices become bigger and larger than the offices they occupy. It is embarrassing, but the President will not see it that way, that it was embarrassment to his government, he sees it as if it is ok, the IGP was working for him. But when he ordered him to move to Benue State, the President also expressed worry why he was not there, it is disrespect.”

It would be recalled that the Senate before now had invited Ibrahim Idris but he shunned the invitation for the third time and as a result the Senate has described him as an enemy of democracy.