The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Disu, on Wednesday failed to produce the self-proclaimed Director-General of the alleged Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeyemi Adeniyi, before the House of Representatives committee investigating the activities of the purported agency.
The failure comes two days after the committee gave the police a 48-hour ultimatum to produce Mr Adeniyi before it at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja.
However, the police explained that Mr Adeniyi could not be brought before the committee because he was being held in custody pursuant to a subsisting court order.
The development was disclosed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Olufemi Akinola, who represented Mr Disu at the committee’s resumed investigative hearing on Wednesday.
Mr Akinola told the committee that the police remained committed to cooperating with its investigation, but could not produce Mr Adeniyi while the order under which he was being detained remained in force.
