Senate Urges IGP To Probe Maltreatment Of Nigerians By Foreigners
The Senate has called on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to investigate and prosecute foreigners engaged in the maltreatment of Nigerians nationwide. This call was made during Tuesday’s plenary in the red chambers of the National Assembly in Abuja following a motion by Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo titled ‘Urgent Need to Check the Alarming Trend of Inhuman Treatment and Torture of Nigerian Citizens by Foreign Nationals in the Country’. The lawmaker referred to a case of inhuman treatment meted against one Friday Ndubuisi and a late Chadian who were both accused of stealing iron rods by their Lebanese employee in the Gudu District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).