LEAVE PEACE CORPS HEADQUARTERS NOW, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ORDERS POLICE

Speaking further, Akoh said, the office of the Attorney General of the Federation had written five different letters to the office of the IGP, advising that outstanding judgements in favour of the Peace Corps be obeyed, “but the IGP always pays deaf ears to the advice”.

The Peace Corps boss  also tendered video evidence where the IGP Idris reportedly vowed to frustrate the Peace Corps and make sure the bill establishing it did not receive the assent of the President.

“There are 11 court judgements in favour of Peace Corps on this issue. There are also five letters from the AGF advising the police to comply with the judgement of the court,” he said.

Penpushing report that, at the hearing, Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of legal affairs, Henry Njoku, who represented the Nigerian Police, said the Force had instituted an appeal against the recent judgement of  Kolawole, urging the lawmakers to disregard the petition by the group.

Njoku while responding to question whether the claim of the Peace Corps boss concerning the AGF’s issued letters was true, said he could not confirm that as at the time of the sitting and also told the committee that his office needed time to study the documents, especially the annexes exhibited by the petitioners, explaining that he was only making “conditional appearance” on behalf of the Force.

The police boss  then argued that the said letter is ‘conditional’ as it refers to ‘if there is no subsisting court judgement on the matter. There is a subsisting court judgement in the court of appeal. So, there is an appeal for stay of execution of the judgement before the court of appeal,” he said.