No Court Order Stopping IGP From Probing Rivers Re-run

The Nigeria Police has said that there is no court order stopping it from probing the Rivers State re-run violence.This was disclosed in a statement signed the FPRO Jimoh Moshood and made to journalists yesterday, in response to an online publication by Breaking Times High court stops IGP from probing the Rivers rerun violence on the 31st January 2017.He said that the publication is in respect of an ongoing Civil Suit NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/13/2017 between the Governor of Rivers State and the Inspector General of Police pending at the Federal High Court Abuja, .The publication claimed that the Federal High Court has asked the Inspector General of Police to maintain status quo in the investigation of the violence that rocked Rivers State during the Re-Run Legislative Election on 10th December, 2016Reacting, Moshood said the caption posted by Breaking Times is misleading and should be disregarded by the public. He advisedHe said the case came up, Counsel to the Inspector General of Police raised a Preliminary Objective to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the motion, adding that the Counsel to the Governor of Rivers State informed the Court that they needed time to respond to both the counter affidavit and the Preliminary Objection.
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