National Federation Party President, Pio Tikoduadua says he has instructed his lawyers to take legal action against the Police after he was detained in custody for 36 hours last month.
Tikoduadua says Police officers arrived at his home just after midnight and told him that he was being detained for making statements causing public alarm regarding an incident where some police officers allegedly assaulted a man in Naqia Village and threw him off a bridge.
He says he was ready to be questioned from 9am on the 21st of April but his interview was repeatedly delayed and he was then kept in custody for another night.
Tikoduadua says Police should know that as a Member of Parliament he was not going to hide from them and there was no reason for the Police to detain him in the middle of the night.
The NFP President adds that if Police wished to question him, they could have easily done that during the day and they did not have to lock him up.
Tikoduadua says instead this is what the police have done to dozens of people through the period of the Coronavirus restrictions including another Opposition MP who was detained for a longer period before being charged.
He says this is simply the Police exercising their own form of punishment which is not their job.
Tikoduadua says Police must let the courts decide if those people are guilty and if they are guilty the courts must decide the punishment.
We have sent questions to Police and are awaiting a response.
