For the second time running, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris failed to appear before the Senate over the arrest and detention of Senator Dino Melaye last week.
A police source who does not want to named said the IG was being represented by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Joshak Habila and is currently waiting to be called into the Senate chamber at the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang.
The source also said that the IG had arrived at the National Assembly Complex while the Senate had begun a closed-door session.
The Senate had, last Thursday, rejected taking Habila, while the IG accompanied President Muhammadu Buhari to Bauchi State during his official visit.
The IG will also brief the lawmakers on what the police and other security agencies are doing to stop the incessant killings across the country.