The Nigeria Police has stated that there was no court order stopping it from probing the violence which marred the Rivers State re-run elections.
The FPRO Jimoh Moshood made this known yesterday in a statement in response to an online publication, entitled: ‘High court stops IGP from probing the Rivers rerun violence’ on the 31st January 2017.
According to Moshood, the online 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.
He said 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, 2016.
“The caption posted by Breaking Times is misleading and should be disregarded by the public.” He advised.
He said when the case came up, Counsel to the Inspector General of Police raised a preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the motion.
He added 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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