Plateau assembly crisis: ‘The commissioner of police has taken sides’ – Lawmakers shun meeting with CP

Plateau assembly crisis: ‘The commissioner of police has taken sides’ – Lawmakers shun meeting with CP

NAIJA NEWS 

Some members of the Plateau State House of Assembly have accused the state Commissioner of Police (CP), Bartholomew Onyeka of taking sides in the ongoing crisis rocking the State Assembly.

This is as Naija News gathered that lawmakers of the Plateau State House of Assembly on Tuesday shunned the meeting between them and the CP.

According to the lawmaker representing Riyom state constituency, Timothy Dantong, he and his colleagues refused to attend the meeting arranged by the CP because they believe he has taken sides.

He alleged that the Plateau CP was not neutral in the leadership crisis between the two factions in the house.

Dantong told The Punch that “The Commissioner of Police asked us that if we (Abok Ayuba group) claim to be in the majority in the House and if we wanted the Assembly complex to be opened for us to continue with our legislative business, that we should write our names and sign, which we did. Out of 22 persons (lawmakers) that attended that meeting,15 of them were on our side and signed.

“But when the Commission..

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