The Senate on Thursday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to appear before it at 11:00 a.m. next Wednesday and explain why Senator Dino Melaye was handcuffed by policemen who arrested him on Tuesday.
Ibrahim was also expected to answer questions on the insecurity and its attendant killings in different parts of the country.
The IGP, who was summoned by the lawmakers on Wednesday, failed to show up, as he was said to have accompanied President Muhammadu Buhari to Bauchi on official engagement.
Announcing the inability of Ibrahim to honour the invitation, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Abu Ibrahim, said the IGP had mandated the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of Operations to stand him for him.
But the senators were piqued by Senator Ibrahim’s statement, with many of them accusing the IGP of being disrespectful to the Senate.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, reminded Senator Ibrahim that it was the IGP that the Senate summoned through a resolution and not the DIG.
Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na ‘Allah, urged members not to listen to any other person other than the IGP.