The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun on Monday gave reason for the raid on the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja.

Egbetokun spoke while responding to a question on why the police were against the hardship protest at the Youth Summit organised by the police.

He said it was the responsibility of the police to manage protest and not against it, adding that with the intelligence at the disposal of the police, anyone who knew what the police know about this protest, would not come out to protest.

According to him, the police had intelligence at their disposal that some agents of destabilisation were ready to use the hardship protest to destabilise the country.

“I won’t be able to share the details yet because we are still on the trail of these individuals. Some of them are already out of the country, and they immediately escape,” he said.

Egbetokun added that some of those planning to destabilise the nation were even foreigners, disclosing that one of them was traced to the labour house the other day, and that he was just wondering why the noise about the raid on the labour house when the police raided the place.

“We raided only a shop that the individual was using as a front and we have been monitoring his activities. He was very active in the Sudan crisis and he’s in Nigeria mobilizing people to destabilize our country.

“We traced him to that shop and our detectives raided his shop. We recovered valuable documents, so there was no need for the noise about the raid of the labour house,” he said.