him when the Congress comes to power.

"Let me warn all such police officials that I will use the special powers vested in the government under Article 311 to dismiss all of them in case they do not mend their ways," he told reporters.

"Enough is enough and I won't let anyone to get away with the persecution of my party workers," the PCC chief, who was accompanied by the local MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, said.

One of the party workers confronted the SP in-charge of the police station, with "evidence" that the SHO had asked him to join Akali Dal. He said, when he refused, he was allegedly slapped with a false case.

The SHO and the DSP were not present in the police station when the former Chief Ministermade theSince last year, Nigeria has been battling dollar shortage caused by the sharp drop in oil revenues .

This weakened the Naira on the black market, where it trades far lower than the official interbank rate of 305 naira to the dollar.

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The naira, which had weakened to 520 to the dollar on the black market, firmed to a more than three-months high of 460 on Friday, after several interventions by the central bank on the official market.

Central bank spokesman Isaac Okoroafor said the central bank would ensure a steady supply of foreign exchange to the market. Its efforts, he said, were starting to narrow the black market rate.

The central bank has been under pressure from the government to narrow the gap between the official and black market rates, has