IGP Speaks on Arrest of Yorubas over Ile-Ife Crisis

Following the public outcry on the allegation of bias against the police on the arrest of only Yorubas in the communal clash between the Hausa and Yoruba communities Ile-Ife, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has been forced to comment on the matter.

Pan Yoruba groups, Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG), Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) and the Yoruba Youths Council (YYC) had accused the police of ethnical bias and what he described as ‘one-sided report on the crisis.

But Idris, the police IG said that crime has neither tribe nor identity, saying that the security agency only applied the law on the crisis.

Idris who spoke with State House correspondents after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on security issues in the country today, said: “You know we are police officers. Crime has no tribe. If you are a criminal, you are a criminal.

“Crime has no face. We don’t look at crime in the identity of where you are coming from. As far as you are a criminal and the police find you wanting, we apply the law.”