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Saraki: IG, others must appear before Senate over rising abduction

 

…Police boss struggles to read speech in trending video

The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki yesterday said that the Senate has summoned the Inspector General of Police, IG, Ibrahim Idris, the State Security Service, SSS, and the Army to appear before the upper chamber to explain rising cases of abduction in the country.

Saraki said the Senate was summoning the IG and others in view of the abduction of 87 people in the last few days along the road in Kaduna State.

The Senate President, in his twitter handle lamented the rising cases of kidnapping in the country, saying the upper chamber was concerned.

According to him, the nation could not continue in this state of insecurity as something must be done urgently to salvage the situation.

“Another 87 people abducted off our nation’s highways. We cannot continue like this! We have once again requested the presence of the IGP, together with the SSS and the Army to explain to us, your representatives, why this continues to happen,” he said on his twitter handle, @bukolasaraki.

Meanwhile, a video of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, struggling to read a speech, is trending online.

In the video, Idris finds it difficult to pronounce the words, as he constantly repeats “I mean” and “transmission”. Traits of dyslexia, a learning difficulty, were noticed in the IG’s delivery.

Idris was said to have been caught in the “embarrassing” video tweeted by Voice of Liberty, on Monday, when he visited Kano to commission the police technical intelligence unit in the state.

An analysis by TheCable editors suggests that part of the video was doctored, though that did not cover up for his mistake, just that it was repeated over and again.

“I mean, transmission, I mean effort, that the transmission cooperation to transmission, I mean transmission to have effect, ehm, apprehend, I mean, apprehensive towards the recommendation, recommended formation effective and effect, I mean, apprehensive at the transmission of…and transmission and transmission for the effective in the police command,” Idris said

After several attempts to get his speech right, the IGP, struggling with his paper, apologised to his audience.

“Sorry, I’m sorry please,” he said.

However, Ibrahim’s struggle did not end there. A man in suit joins him to help hold down his script, and even helped with the pronunciation of the words. But this didn’t make the reading any better for the IGP.

“All effective the transmission, other transmission, I can state without contradiction that I have commissioned what?” he continued.

“Over transmission of, over transmission of, over all kidnapping, armed robbery and other heinous crimes, I mean, ehm, commission transmission, recommendation transmission.”

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