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The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has revealed that the police are hunting for a suspect linked to the Sudan crisis who is currently in Nigeria and mobilizing to destabilize the country.
Egbetokun also explained that the raid on the Labour House, the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) was not aimed at leaders of the Congress, but suspects, who he said were using shops in the building as decoration.
The police chief responded to questions about why the police opposed the hunger protests.
“My response to this would be threefold. First, of course, our responsibility is not to protest, but to manage the protest. Second, the intelligence that the police have, whoever knows what we know about this protest, would not have come to protest,” Egbetokun said.
He explained that police had intelligence that some individuals were planning to use the difficult protests to disrupt the stability of the country, and that some of those individuals were already abroad.
“We have intelligence that some destabilizing agents are ready to use the protests of hardship to destabilize our country. I cannot give details yet because we are still hunting these people. Some of them have left the country, and they immediately fled. Some of them are even foreigners,” Egbetokun added.
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According to him, one of the suspects was tracked down at the Workers’ House, but he emphasized that the police only raided the shop that was used as a front by the suspect.
“One of them was traced to a labourer’s house the other day, and I just wonder why there is such a fuss about raiding a labourer’s house when the police raided a labourer’s house. We only raided a shop that the man was using as a front and we have been monitoring his activities. He was very active in the Sudan crisis and he was in Nigeria to mobilize people to destabilize our country. We traced him to that shop and our detectives raided his shop. We recovered valuable documents, so there is no need for such a fuss about raiding a labourer’s house,” Egbetokun explained.
He also explained that the police were against the protest because of the ENDSARS experience which was initially peaceful but turned violent.
“I always refer to the ENDSARS protests that turned violent. Initially, the protests were peaceful, but any protest that is mobilized on social media has the potential to become violent because when you mobilize on social media, you mobilize the entire population, including criminals. So, the idea of the protests being hijacked, I don’t believe that the protests that were mobilized on social media were hijacked. Hijacked by who? By the people who were mobilized for the protests,” Egbetokun said.
On the issue of rogue elements in the police force, Egbetokun said he was working to remove them from the system.
“You said there are bad people in the police. That we have bad people. But bad people are everywhere. They are not just in the police. Whatever you see in the police today is a reflection of what is happening in Nigeria. This police force is called the Nigeria Police Force, not the Ghana Police Force. The police officers are Nigerian citizens. So, the people get a decent police force. Nevertheless, we are getting rid of the bad people because we are responsible leaders,” Egbetokun said.
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