Those who calls for revolution will be consumed by it –Minister
Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, has warned that anyone found making inflammatory statements capable of igniting fire in the country would be made to face the full wrath of the law, irrespective of his status in the society.
To this end, the minister said that the Inspector General of Police and Director General of Department of State have been told to arrest and prosecute anyone found wanting.
Speaking in Lagos yesterday at the launch of Mr Yinka Odumakin’s book ‘Watching the Watcher’, the Police Affairs minister said that no one was untouchable and that politicians should stop beating the drums of war.
His words: “By the grace of God, I am the Minister of Police Affairs in this Country today, and I have said and I am warning that anybody who makes inflammatory statement, who said anything that is mutinous, will be arrested and prosecuted.
“They should stop the drum of war. Anybody who calls for unholy revolution will be consumed by that revolution. Nigeria belongs to all of us. There is nobody that is untouchable.
They might have done it in the past and got away with it, but let them do it now. Anybody who does it now, no matter how highly placed, will be arrested and prosecuted.
“Nigerians have seen and heard what they are saying. They are only trying to make up propaganda to cow the government down, and nobody can do it. They have been in government before. They have seized power in an unholy fashion before.
“I don’t know what remains for them to start ganging up and said that they want to capture power on behalf of the people who power already belongs to.
“The opposition must keep shut and watch what their utterances. In a gathering where you say people should go to the polling center with charms, cutlasses, guns and the rest is mutinous. So, whoever says it henceforth would pay for it, I repeat, whoever. This country is established by law and the law must take its course.”
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