Senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has said some of his colleagues and ministers have police officers guarding their wives and children.
Ndume, who spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, said the presidential directive on the withdrawal of police officers on VIP duties should be extended to the National Assembly.
The lawmaker noted that he was shocked to still find many police officers at the National Assembly Complex after the directive by President Bola Tinubu on the withdrawal of cops from VIP duties
He said there would be no need to attach police officers to personalities in Abuja if the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were secure.
“I thought today I would not see so many police in the National Assembly, but there are still crowded police in the National Assembly. So I don’t know what the IGP is talking about.
“You can’t imagine what is happening. Some of our colleagues, some ministers have police [officers] attached to their wives. What is their business with that? [They] have police attached to their children,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.
“I saw some people, somebody, I don’t want to mention the name, but one of these politically exposed persons, his own son, who is mature, is moving with a convoy.
“It’s not, it’s an insult, not abuse. I went to one of my colleagues’ house after dinner and saw more than 10 police [officers]. He’s even my junior in the National Assembly.
“Some of them, if you see them coming, you pull back thinking that maybe it’s the President or the Vice President that is coming,” he added.
