You are the real enemy of democracy - Sagay blasts Senate

The chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee
Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, has
lashed out at the Senate for describing Ibrahim Idris
as the enemy of democracy.
The inspector-general of police, Idris, has
shunned the invitation of the Senate three times,
prompting them to condemn him.
Daily Independent reports that Sagay noted that
the police chief sent a deputy inspector-general
to meet with the Senate when he was invited.
He said the action of senators visiting their
colleagues who were under trial was the real
abandonment of democracy.



He said: “Absolutely not! I don’t think the IGP has
constituted himself as enemy of our democracy”.
“It is the conduct of the Senate that constitutes danger to
democracy because of the way they frequently abandon
their constitutional responsibilities and move en masse to
engage in solidarity visits to their individual members who
are undergoing trial in hospitals or other places. That is an
indication of abandonment of democracy” .
“They have regularly abused their rights under this
democracy and have demonstrated that they are not
sufficiently mature to operate in liberal democracy. That is
what I have seen."


there had reported that the Nigerian Senate
declared the Police IG Ibrahim Idris an enemy of
democracy following his refusal to honour an
invitation to appear before the upper chamber
for a third time.
The lawmakers during plenary on Wednesday,
May 9, said Idris is not fit to hold public office in
Nigeria and abroad.
The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, made the
declaration after the Senate emerged from a
closed door session where it deliberated on the
non-appearance of the police boss.