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Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has said the Mopol Training School in Endehu, Nasarawa State, was set up legally.

He said funds used for the school were generated through support from the state government and corporate partners and not by illegal means.

Adamu’s lawyer, Dr Alex Izinyon (SAN), said a report by an online medium, Sahara Reporters, that the IGP raised the funds illegally, was not true.

He threatened to file a criminal complaint against the medium and its publisher, Mr Omoyele Sowore, over the August 3 report.

In an August 6 letter addressed to the medium’s United States address and Sowore, the SAN demanded “a written and unequivocal retraction with an apology carried with the same prominence” on its platform and three national dailies.

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Izinyon said “a formal criminal complaint to relevant agencies” could be filed “without further correspondence” if the IGP’s demands were not acceded to within seven days.

He also said his client would seek N10 billion as exemplary and general damages in court should the demands not be met.

“Our client hastens to inform you that these defamatory words in your said publications are a farrago of lies, concoctions all calculated by you to bring our client to the lowest contempt as they are a product of you and your online publication to achieve your premeditated blackmail, dubious and diabolical ends” the SAN wrote.

The report was titled: Exclusive: How Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Adamu, illegally raised millions of naira for construction of training school in Nasarawa.

Izinyon said the words used in the report “are untrue, fallacious”.

Besides, he said the platform “did not bother to confirm from our client in accordance with international best practice in journalism his response”.

He said the report was based on “unconfirmed sources which you quoted with relish without any qualms”.