Police in Ekiti to keep the peace: DIG Joshua
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the police dig said his men only blocked the road from fajuyi area of the state secretariat on the ado-ekiti-ilesa road to stop miscreants1 the deputy inspector general of policedig operations who is also in charge of saturdays gubernatorial election in ekiti state mr. habila joshuasaid he never ordered his men to attack members of the peoples democratic party1 he told journalists in ado ekiti that all that his men were doing was to keep the peace as well as maintain law and order ahead of saturdays governorship poll1 we are not here to usurp the authority of the governor but we are not going to allow any authorized rally that can trigger violence in the state. you can see that the state is tensed up1 as law enforcement agents we must be proactive and take actions that can prevent crisis rather than trying to quell it after it might have broken out he said1 according to him the government house has not been blocked contrary to the claims by gov ayo fayose1 he also said he was not aware of any attack on the state governor ayo fayose1 he promised to probe the alleged attack on fayose and brief the media afterwards1 nan reports that armed policemen on wednesday stopped a rally scheduled to take place at the new pavilion located at fajuyi which is within the vicinity of the government house1 the policemen shot into the air as they dispersed the pdp members who were called by fayose for a rally in support of prof kolapo olusola-eleka1 fayose who got wind of the development came out of government house to find out the cause of the pandemonium1 the policemen rebuffed the governor for challenging their mode of operations leading to verbal altercations1 when the ambience became rowdy the police used the teargas with the governor claiming later that he lost consciousness that his neck was sprained and was rushed to hospital1