The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has revealed that the police are trailing a suspect linked to the Sudan crisis who is currently in Nigeria and mobilizing to destabilize the country.
Egbetokun also explained that the raid at the Labour House, the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) was not targeted at the leadership of the Congress but the suspect, who he said was using a shop at the building as a decor.
The IGP was responding to a question on why the police was against the hunger protest.
“My response to this will be in three parts. Number one is that, of course, our responsibility is not to protest but to manage protest. Two is that the intelligence at the disposal of the police, anyone who knows what we know about this protest, will not come out to protest,” Egbetokun said.
He explained that the police had intelligence that some individuals were planning to use the hardship protest to destabilize the country, and that some of these individuals were already out of the country.
“We had intelligence at our disposal that some agents of destabilisation are ready to use the hardship protest to destabilise our country. I won’t be able to share the details yet because we are still on the trail of these individuals. Some of them are already out of the country, and they immediately escape. Some of them are even foreigners,” Egbetokun added.
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According to him, one of the suspects was traced to the Labour House, but clarified that the police only raided a shop being used as a front by the suspect.
“One of them was traced to the labour house the other day, and I was just wondering why the noise about the raid on the labour house when the police raided the labour house. We raided only a shop that the individual was using as a front and we have been monitoring his activities. He was very active in the Sudan crisis and he’s in Nigeria mobilizing people to destabilize our country. We traced him to that shop and our detectives raided his shop. We recovered valuable documents, so there was no need for the noise about the raid of the labour house,” Egbetokun explained.
He also explained that the police were against the protest because of the ENDSARS experience, which started peacefully but turned violent.
“I always refer to the ENDSARS protest which turned violent. It started initially as peaceful, but any protest that is mobilized on social media has the potential to be violent because when you are mobilizing on social media, you are mobilizing the whole population, including the criminals. So the idea of the protest being hijacked, I don’t believe that a protest that is mobilized on social media is hijacked. Hijacked by who? By the same people that were mobilized for the protest,” Egbetokun said.
Regarding the issue of bad eggs in the police force, Egbetokun stated that he was working to flush them out of the system.
“You said that a lot of bad eggs are in the police. That we have bad eggs. But the bad eggs are everywhere. They are not only in the police. Whatever you see in the police today is a reflection of what Nigeria is. It is called the Nigeria Police Force, not the Ghana Police Force. Members of the force are Nigerians. So a society gets the kind of police it deserves. That notwithstanding, we are fishing out the bad eggs because we are responsible leaders,” Egbetokun said.
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