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  • IG retires seven DIGs

    Acting Inspector-General of Police Muhammed Adamu has retired all the Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs).

    The retired DIGs, who were Adamu’s senior, served with former IG Ibrahim Idris.

    They are: DIGs in charge of Finance & Administration, (Maigari Dikko); Operations (Habila Joshak); Information & Communications Technology (Emmanuel Inyang); Logistics & Supply (Agboola Oshodi-Glover); Research & Planning (Mohammed Katsina); Training & Development (Sani Mohammed) and Federal Criminal Investigation & Intelligence (Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah).

    One of the affected DIGs confirmed the retirement to The Nation last night.

    “Well, I believe the news of our retirement should be true and the Force spokesman should be the best person to confirm it to you,” the DIG said.

    On whether he has received any official letter of retirement, the DIG said: “Officially, not yet, but I think the Force Public Relations Officer will confirm it to the media soon.”

  • How PSC was sidelined in DIGs, AIGs promotion

    Details emerged in Abuja yesterday about how Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari and Acting Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris, exchanged correspondences which led to what sources termed the ‘illegal sacking and appointments of Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs) and Assistant Inspectors General (AIGs)”

    The Nation exclusively reported on Wednesday the disquiet over errors committed by the Police Service Commission (PSC) in the retirement of 21 AIGs ‘because they are senior to the IGP” and the appointment of seven others as DIGs.

    However, sources told our correspondent that although Chairman of PSC Mike Okiro, a retired IG,  authorised the issuance of the statement announcing the retirements and appointments, he did so after it became obvious that there was nothing the commission could do about the matter because of the direct interference by The Presidency through Kyari.

    According to a source conversant with the workings of the commission, the Acting IGP “hurriedly compiled the names of AIGs he did not want to see in the Police any longer to the President, in which he surreptitiously claimed that all those on the list were his seniors. By the action, the President/ C-in-C was deceived to grant the approval in error.”

    The source confirmed that AIG Shuaibu Gambo was not retired although he was senior to the Acting IGP while AIG Olufemi  Ogunbayode , who was promoted to AIG only two weeks back, was retired “because he is senior to the IG” .

    The source added: “The IGP also forwarded a list of officers to be promoted to DIGs. In the list, some junior CPs were picked and recommended for promotion to DIG over and above some senior CPs and AIGs who are from same state/zone. Despite this obvious abnormally, it was forwarded to the President and accordingly approved.”

    Sources said on receiving the approved list from the Presidency, commissioners at the PSC kicked against it, insisting that it was outside the purview of the Acting IGP to recommend names of officers to be retired or promoted as that remains a key responsibility of the PSC.

    They also argued, among others, that: “It is not the constitutional responsibility of the IGP to forward names of officers to the President for promotion and/or retirement nor was it the due process as carried by the Acting IGP; that the President could not have been in a position to know of the lop-sidedness deliberately designed and orchestrated error in the presentation by the Acting IGP; and that the promotions to DIG and retirement of AIGs were fraught with deliberate manipulations by the Acting IGP.”

    Sources said Okiro overruled the commissioners “on the grounds that the President’s directive was final and any aggrieved officer should complain later”.

    The source said the appointment of a junior AIG as the Acting IGP has left the hierarchy of the Police in comatose and that “to leave this to linger on a day longer will not be good for the Police and the country, considering the security challenges the country is now facing.”

    One of the sources insisted that the correspondences and documentation for the promotions and retirement that were effected were “largely done between the Acting AIG and the Chief of Staff to the President without recourse to the PSC as constitutionally provided.

    “The list was merely presented to the President for approval. It was obvious that the President did not know the true position on the ground as it were.”

  • Police re-deploys four DIGs

    Police re-deploys four DIGs

    The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has approved the redeployment of four Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs).

    This is contained in a statement issued by CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Force Public Relations Officer, in Abuja on Monday.

    The affected officers are; DIGs Dan’Azumi Doma, formerly in charge of Force Criminal Investigations department, now heads the Department of Finance and Administration.

    Others are; Kakwe Katso, formerly in charge of Research and Planning, now in charge of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department, Abuja.

    Mrs Chintua Amajor-Onu, formerly AIG in charge of Force Investments, now DIG in charge of Department of Information and Communications Technology, Abuja.

    Mr Jubril Adeniji is the new DIG in charge of Department of Research and Planning, Abuja.

    The statement said that the redeployment is with immediate effect.

    It noted that DIGs Mamman Tsafe, in-charge of Department of Logistics and Supply, Abuja, and Saliu Hashimu, in-charge of Department of Training and Development, Abuja, are to maintain their duty posts.

    DIG Sotonye Wakama, of Department of Operations, Abuja, is also to maintain his duty post.

     

  • PSC shortlists two DIGs, two AIGs, CP to succeed Abubakar

    PSC shortlists two DIGs, two AIGs, CP to succeed Abubakar

    Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar may not get a tenure extension from President Goodluck Jonathan, it was learnt yesterday.

    Already, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has submitted the files of two Deputy Inspectors-General (DIGs), two Assistant Inspectors-General (AIGs) and a Commissioner of Police (CP) to the Presiden to enable him make a choice.

    It was learnt that President Jonathan was studying the files and may make a pronouncement any moment.

    Abubakar is due for retirement on July 31. He will proceed on retirement on that date and hand over to the most senior officer, if the President refuses to extend  his tenure before that day.

    A source said: “If the President does not announce Abubakar’s tenure extension before July 31, he will proceed on retirement. This is because that is his terminal date in the police. If it happens that a new IGP is not appointed, he will hand over to the most senior officer, that is the DIG ‘A’ Department.

    “He (Abubakar) cannot stay a day beyond July 31, unless his tenure is extended. This is because all  his course mates would retire on that day. In fact, about 60 senior officers are retiring this July.”

    It was also learnt that if the President is really interested in the tenure extension of the IGP, he would not have requested fom the PSC the files of those considered qualified for the job.

    Among the DIGs being considered, one would be retiring next year, it was learnt. The other, the source said,  has about seven years to stay in service.

    The DIG has about seven more years to put in service and is from the Northwest. The other is from Southsouth.

    Sources told our reporter that the DIG from the Southsouth may not be favoured because the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah, is from that zone. His choice may mess things up for the President. He is also said to be a loyalist of a former military leader from the North.

    Of the two  shortlisted AIGs, one is highly educated and a respected detective, who was a Principal Staff Officer (PSO) to three former IGPs. He is from Edo State, the Southsouth. He is also said to be highly favoured among those shortlisted.

    The other AIG, it was learnt, is from Niger State in the Northcentral. He was a Commissioner of Police in Rivers State and was in Lagos State as the supervising CP during 2007 elections.

    The sources said the only police commissioner on the list is a former controversial Rivers State police chief.

  • For IG, DIGs, AIGs, CPs

    WHEN you use ‘demand’ or ‘advocate’ as a verb, do not add ‘for’, please!

    “The reason is because (that) our parties lack political ideologies.” (The PUNCH Back Page Salvo, January 20) This was contributed by Dr. Stanley Nduagu, Abia ANA President, 08062925996. Additionally from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, New Edition: Do not say ‘the reason because’ something happens…but say the reason why that something happens. ‘By reason of something’ means because of something. An analysis, like the foregoing, brings out the technicality of language which puts off most readers! And from me: you can say ‘the reason why I came’ or ‘the reason I came’. Some books frown at the former, why most dictionaries approve it. That is grammaticality for you!

    From Mr. G.O. Komolafe, Ilesa (08037277985) comes the next excerpt: “Twice THE NATION ON SUNDAY COMMENT (EDITORIAL) of January 12 used ‘severally’ and it got the meaning wrong. Note that the word is not the adverb of ‘several’, but the opposite of ‘jointly’ or ‘collectively’.

    SATURDAY INDEPENDENT of January 18 goofed on five occasions: “230 perish in road crashes in Nasarawa” THE NATION ON SUNDAY of January 19 also committed this same atrocity apparently from the same news source: “230 killed in Nasarawa road crashes in 12 months” The victims were not killed, but died/perished…! Except in unusual circumstances, roads cannot crash when accidents happen. What crashes are vehicles—not roads! We can have road/rail/air/sea mishaps and respective contraptions could crash—not the means.

    “Back to school (Back-to-school) resolution”

    “Lagos official charged for (with) violating Tenancy Law”

    “Only agriculture can solve Nigeria’s unemployment problem” ‘Unemployment’ is a present and clear problem globally. Therefore, there is no need for redundancies!

    “Matches between the two teams in the past have (had) always live (lived) to expectations….”

    THE NATION ON SUNDAY of January 19 disseminated copious blunders: “Harmattan hampers voters turn out in Jigawa Local Govt (LG) election” No news: voter turnout

    “INEC reads riot act to staff” Fixed expression: the riot act—headline considerations should not vitiate stock entries.

    “It must have been distraction (distractions) galore”

    “This seems an insult, both on the spirit and letters of representative government.” (National Mirror Views Page, January 16) Get it right: the spirit of the law (in this case, representative government) There is nothing like ‘the spirit and letters of…’! The correct expression means intention: the meaning or qualities that someone intended something to have, especially the meaning that a law or rule was intended to have. ‘The letter of the law’, conversely, means the exact words of a law or agreement rather than the intended or general meaning. (Source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, New Edition)

    Still from Longman: Do not say ‘invitation letter’ or ‘complaint letter’. Say letter of invitation/complaint.

    “It is a common sight in most police units and stations to behold all manners of faulty equipment….” Not my opinion: all manner of equipment.

    “They will only end up frustrating the good intentions of the president, thereby continually subjecting Nigerians into (to) servitude.”

    “As popular as the two investigative panels he has put in place may appear, the power to investigate all issues are (is) vested in the respective legislative houses….”

    “Charges of corruption against those in authority is (are) not new to Nigerians.”

    “Although, personally, his integrity was never questioned, that of the members of his administration were (was) loudly condemned.”

    “So (a comma) with dwindling earnings, the Abubakar administration cannot (could not) be expected to maintain the same healthy foreign reserve as he inherited.”

    POLICE ETYMOLOGY

    NIGERIAN policemen are supposed to be friends of the society. Alas, their adversarial comportment reminds one of colonialism. Cops in other countries are very friendly and professional. On December 27, 2013, during my trip to Umuode en route to Aba, Abia State, a cop flagged me down just before Ore and asked for the tinted glass police permit for my Sport-Utility Vehicle (SUV). All explanations that I forgot it in my wife’s car when I took the SUV to my local mechanic for check-up preparatory to my South East trip fell on deaf ears! The presence of my wife and children did not make any emotional difference as the insolent and corrupt cop, Corporal Temitope Oluwasope (212039), standing and dangling a WW1 gun as if we were in a war situation proximal to their rickety operational vehicle numbered NPF 533B, insisted that I bribe him with N10,000 for contravening the law! There was no hint of taking us to the station for a statement and subsequent ticketing or making pretensions about dragging me to a kangaroo traffic court! It took the intervention of a senior officer and a gentleman before the extortionist and unruly constable could accept N2,000, which I reluctantly paid to foreclose further time wastage because of the tender children aboard and the long, bumpy trajectory ahead. Otherwise, I do not succumb to such circumstantially exploitative demands. Such extortive brazenness is the identity of Nigerian police nationwide! This kind of official (police) banditry should be limited to Lagos roads where it is a way of life for officers and men of the Lagos Police Command under the feeble and rudderless leadership of Umar Manko! The IGP, DIGs, AIGs and CPs should check the corrupt and beggarly language of their ‘boys’ while on illegal/outlawed (virtual roadblock) duty. Such foul communication hallmarks irredeemable institutional degeneracy.

  • Four DIGs, 191 officers for trial

    Four DIGs, 191 officers for trial

    Four Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) are among 195 senior police officers facing charges before the Force Disciplinary Committee (FDC) for various cases of misconduct, DIG Suleiman Fakai, has said.

    Fakai, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of Administration, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja at a news conference.

    He stated that 17 Commissioners of Police, two Deputy Commissioners of Police and six Assistant Commissioners of Police would also appear before the committee.

    “We have a total of 195 officers appearing before us for various cases of indiscipline.

    “We have four AIGs here to face us, 17 CPs, two DCPs, six ACPs and the remaining are from CSPs to ASPs,’’ he said.

    Fakai, who chairs the committee, said one each of CP, ACP, and CSP, and two SPs as well as eight CSPs had been dismissed for serious cases of misconduct in the last one year.

    According to him, two CSPs, one SP and 13 ASPS were compulsorily retired, also for misconduct, while a DCP, three CSPs, seven SP, a DSP and 10 ASPs were demoted during the period.

    Fakai said that the current police administration had in January 2012 inherited over 3,000 cases of indiscipline, but added the cases had been reduced to the barest minimum.

    “The Force Disciplinary Committee comprise of all the Deputy Inspectors General of Police and the Force Secretary who serves as its secretary.

    “The committee essentially reviews disciplinary matters involving officers from the rank of ASP and above who may had erred in the course of their duties,’’ he said.

    He said the committee was mandated to make appropriate recommendations to the Police Service Commission on all cases it handled.

    “This is in line with extant provisions and Force policy guiding discipline geared toward upholding professionalism, respect for rule of law and human rights among senior police officers,’’ Fakai said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the committee meets fortnightly, except in emergency situation, to consider cases of misconduct forwarded to it.

    The committee is expected to meet between July 8 and July 12 to hear disciplinary cases against the 195 senior officers appearing before it.