POLICE DISMISS OFFICERS OVER RAID OF EDWIN CLARK’S HOME IN ABUJA

The officers reportedly said they were hunting for illicit weapons which the elder statesman allegedly stockpiled at his residence, but Clark denied the allegations and demanded an immediate apology.

Penpushing further recalled that the Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris immediately distanced himself from the raid and sent top-level police officers, including a Deputy Inspector-General, to apologise to Clark at his residence.

In response, the 91-year-old elder statesman said he had accepted the apology, but expressed strong doubts that the men who carried out the raid were unauthorised. The police said three Inspectors were already facing orderly room trial for their roles in the raid.

Penpushing gathered that the fourth officer, who is an Assistant Superintendent of Police and the most-Senior of the four, was queried and is now said to be on suspension, while the statement explained that the officers were misled into conducting the raid by the informant.

The statement added further that the policemen failed to carry out their due diligence before acting on the tip-off, which now backfired.