Shi’ite movt banned by law, we’ll hunt down killers of officers – FCT police boss

Shi’ite movt banned by law, we’ll hunt down killers of officers – FCT police boss

The Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ben Igweh, has said the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has been outlawed and vowed to fish our killers of police officers in unprovoked attack in Abuja.

Igweh said this in an interview with ARISE NEWS on Sunday. He debunked claims that the IMN members were attacked by police officers.

“The Shi’ite movement has been proscribed. They don’t have right of procession, and they don’t have right of assembly. As far as law is concerned, they are not in existence. So, what happened today, they just came into, because they will trickle in one by one as if to say they want to go and pray in the mosque, they will be trickling in. Before you know in, one-one, two-two, before you know it they have gathered, and they have already had their plans. You can’t believe that these people that came here, it’s a coordinated act. They have already agreed to attack security agencies, I can authoritatively tell you that. And that’s what they came to do, and they successfully, unprovoked”, he stated.

The FCT police boss said the police had received intelligence that the Shi’ite movement will come in on Saturday, however, the protests happened on Sunday, which led to the alleged attacks on police officers.

“We were very very proactive. Today is Sunday, they were supposed to come in yesterday, according to information we had, we know what we did to stop them from entering FCT, that was yesterday. So today, they had to trickle in on by one, wearing ordinary dress, but they will see them carry bag, some hide their dresses inside,” he stated.

“So, they will be gathering like people who want to go and pray in different mosques. Before you know it, they have formed a quorum and they will be on the road. So, you don’t know the difference between somebody that is going to pray, and somebody who is wearing this their dresses. Meanwhile, they have been proscribed, but today, there was no provocation.

“If they bring any person that was attacked or killed by any security agency, I will know that the person is telling lies, because no such thing happened. It’s them that attacked security agencies, and their dead bodies are there in the mortuary, all of them, including the women police. For what? Unprovoked. And that is why I said from today, they’re not going to go unpunished. I’m going to hunt them wherever they are in Nigeria.”