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  • Lagos, Kwara, Kogi, others get new police chiefs    

    NEW Commissioners are to take charge of Police Commands in Lagos, Kwara, Kogi and some other states.

    The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the appointment and deployment of 37 Command Commissioners of Police in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

    They are to resume in their new commands immediately, the PSC said. Also deployed were Assistant Inspector-General (AIGs).

    Their deployment followed the recommendation of Acting Inspector-General (IG) of Police Mohammed Adamu to the Commission.

    The PSC, which approved the posting of new Commissioners of Police to Lagos, Kwara, Kogi and other states, revalidated the appointment of others, including the FCT and Borno.

    With the approval, CP Mu’azu Zubairu will take over from Edgal Imohimi in Lagos State as CP.

    The details of the approval and deployment are contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by the Commission’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani.

    The commissioners and their new ciommand posts are: Buba Sanusi (Katsina); Mohammed Wakili (Kano); Rabiu Ladodo (Jigawa); Ahmed Iliyasu (Ogun); Mu’azu Zubairu (Lagos); Ibrahim Sabo (Niger); Alkassam Sanusi (Taraba); Garba M. Mukaddas (Adamawa); Omololu Bishi (Benue); Bola Longe (Nassarawa) and Isaac Akinmoyede (Plateau).

    Others are: Odumosu Hakeem (Edo); Olushola David (Bayelsa); Adeleke Yinka (Delta); Austin Iwero Agbonlahor (Cross River); Bashir Makama (Akwa Ibom); Awosola Awotunde (Ebonyi); Belel Usman (Rivers); Bello Makwashi (Gombe); Abdulrahman Ahmed (Kaduna); Bala Ciroma (FCT); Egbetokun Kayode (Kwara State); Hakeem Busari (Kogi); Asuquo Amba (Ekiti); Galadanchi Dasuki (Imo); Suleiman Balarabe (Enugu) and Dandaura Mustapha (Anambra).

    There are also: Etim Ene Okon (Abia); Ibrahim Kaoje (Sokoto); Celestine Okoye (Zamfara); Garba Danjuma (Kebbi); Abiodun Ige (Osun); Undie Adie (Ondo); Olukolu Shina (Oyo); Ali Janga (Bauchi); Damian Chukwu (Borno) and Sumonu Abdulmalik (Yobe).

    PSC Chairman Alhaji Musiliu Smith urged them to quickly settle at their new posts and ensure that the forthcoming general elections are peaceful, free, fair and transparent.

    The one-time IG said the country could not afford any disruption of the elections anywhere as the world was looking up to Nigeria for a proof that its democracy has continued to mature.

    The Commission said its approval had been conveyed to the acting IG for implementation.

    The AIG’s deployment came after they were decorated in Abuja by the IG.

    A statement by ACP Mba showed the identities of the deployed AIGs and their formations.

    The former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss Ibrahim Lamorde will head the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB); Wilson A. Inalegwu (Zone 9, Umuahia); Abdul Dahiru Danwawo (Maritime); Adeyemi O. Ogunjemilusi (Directing Staff NIPPS); Maurice A. Yusuf (Research & Planning); Murtala Mani (Force CID) and Tijani Baba (Zone 7, Abuja).

    Others are: Dibal Yakadi (Zone 5, Benin);

    Haruna Huzi Mshelia (Zone 3, Yola); Mohammed Mustapha  (Zone 10, Sokoto); Musa A. Kimo (Zone 6, Calabar); Adeleye Olusola Oyebade (Zone 11, Osogbo); Basen Dapiya Gwana (Zone 12, Bauchi); Karma Hosea Hassan (Staff College, Jos); Folawiyo David (Training & Development); Zana Ibrahim (Commandant, POLAC, Kano); Chris Ezike  (Zone 4, Makurdi) and Moses A. Jitiboh (Investment, FHQ).

    The IG charged the officers to diligently and professionally discharge their duties according to the laws, rules and regulations of the country.

  • Police chiefs to issue tinted glass permit

    Police chiefs to issue tinted glass permit

    Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Suleiman Abba has authorised police commissioners in charge of state commands to issue tinted glass permits.

    In a statement yesterday in Abuja by its spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu, the acting IGP said the decision would enable the police to bring the service closer to the people.

    Abba said the permits have the same authority as those previously issued by the Force headquarters, adding that they are valid throughout the federation.

    The police chief said applicants have to get their vehicles examined to ascertain that the tinted glasses are factory-fitted.

  • Army, DSS, police chiefs sued over N6.5m ‘theft’

    The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to direct the Chief of Army Staff, Director of the Drectorate of Security Service (DSS) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to probe and identify members of a joint patrol team that allegedly robbed two businessmen of about N6.5million in Abuja on September 13.

    The request is contained in a fundamental rights enforcement application marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/676/2014 filed last Wednesday for the victims – Abubakar Musa and Ajube Kumshe – by their lawyer, Kalouma Umar.

    The applicants, who are seeking N15million damages against the respondents, also want the court to order the Director, SSS to refund the N6.5m allegedly stolen from them by the joint patrol team made of mainly of men of the SSS, the police and army. Respondents in the suit include the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Chief of Army Staff, Director, SSS, the IGP and Ebonith Hotel, Lugbe, Abuja.

    Musa, who described himself as a metallurgist, said he had travelled, with Kumshe on a car from their base in Jos to Abuja on September 12 to conduct some business transactions the next day. He said he withdrew the N6.5million from his account in the Suleja (Niger State) branch of Ecobank on September 12 for the business transactions.

    He averred, in a supporting affidavit, that after withdrawing the money and visiting some of his police friends, they lodged in the Ebonith Hotel, Lugbe, Abuja preparatory to their business transactions the next day.

    Musa stated that about 1.30 am on September 13, “a joint team of security operatives comprising men of the Nigerian Army, the SSS and the Nigeria Police Force” stormed the hotel searched their rooms and confiscated the N6.5million he had withdrawn and kept  with him for the next day’s business transactions.

    “They arrested us and took us out of the room together with the money to the reception of the 5th respondent (the hotel). They counted the money and confirmed the amount of the money as N6.5million. They took us to the Lugbe Police Station and detained us for three hours for interrogation, without informing us about the offence we committed,” Musa said.

    He further stated that they were released about five hours later, but that they changed their plans and decided to return to Jos. He said on their way back to Jos,  their car was ambushed along Keffi-Abuja Road by the same joint patrol team, led by one Sadiq.

    Musa stated that the security men later robbed them at gun point, taking away the N6.5m kept in his car boot, N100,000 found in his pocket and N57,000 found with his co-traveller, Kumshe.

    “He (Sadiq) informed me that they were tracking all my phone calls  and had put me on surveillance for long, and that there is no way I can escape from them. When I asked him (Sadiq) what offence I committed, he hit me with his pistol and ordered me to enter into a nearby bush,” Musa said.

    He added that, while the team was leading them into a nearby bus, they heard the noise of an approaching siren and hurriedly abandoned them, but went away with their (applicants’) money.

    Musa, who accused the 2nd to 3rd respondents (Army, SSS and Police authorities) of not responding to his letters seeking investigation of the case, said he could identify members of the patrol team, particularly Sadiq, if they were paraded before him.

    The applicants, who also want the court to order the 3rd respondent (SSS) to refund the N6.5million, are seeking to restrain the respondents from arresting and detaining them. They also urged the court to declare their detention at the Lugbe Police Station as illegal and an abuse of their fundamental rights.

    No date is set for the case’s hearing, and the respondents are yet to file their responses.

  • Police chiefs for 21 states

    Acting Inspector-General of Police Suleiman Abba has approved the posting of new Commissioners of Police (CP) for 21 states.

    They are: Usman Yakubu (Nasarawa), Isaac Gabriel Achong (Akwa Ibom), Paul Okafor (Kogi), Hyancith Dagala (Benue), Idris Faruk Umar (Jigawa), Salihu Garba (Kwara), A. K. Shodipo (Oyo), Abubakar Marafa (Osun), Clement Adoda (Borno), and Kayode Aderanti (Lagos).

    Others are: Usman Baba (Delta), Dan Bature (Rivers), Karma Hosea Hassan (Anambra), Titilayo Busari (Cross River), Valentine Ntomchukwu (Bayelsa), Taiwo Lakanu (Ekiti); Ademola Omole (Taraba), Olusola Emmanuel Amore (Niger), Adejoh Gabriel Adaji (Adamawa), Ishaku Barau (Kebbi) and Wilson Inalegwu (FCT).

    A statement yesterday by the Force spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the exercise was in line with the determination of the police authorities to reposition the Force for improved service delivery.

  • Curb criminal activities or face consequences, IGP tells police chiefs

    Curb criminal activities or face consequences, IGP tells police chiefs

    Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered all zonal Assistant Inspectors General of police (AIGs) to curb incessant criminal activities in their areas of jurisdiction or face the consequences.

    Abubakar, who met with the top brass of the police at the Force Headquarters on Tuesday, decried what he described as increasing spate of lawlessness in certain parts of the country, particularly in the north east.

    The IGP, however, cautioned the officers against high handedness in the handling of the job, saying that the fundamental rights of the citizens must not be trampled upon in the process of enforcing the law.

    Abubakar harped on the need to keep the streets free of criminal elements ahead of the Yuletide celebration.

    He specifically charged Commissioners of Police in charge of Borno, Yobe, Zamfara, Kaduna and Taraba to be on their toes against the Boko Haram sect.

    His words: “Given the situation we met on ground, I think there is progress. But we need to state that there are challenges, particularly in Borno, Yobe and Taraba in the northeast and Kaduna and Zamfara States in the northwest.

    “All these incessant killings, kidnappings and armed robberies must stop. We must work on the excesses of our men; we have seen appreciable improvement but we still need to do more.

    “In the cases of bribery and corruption, we have improved but I have observed that there are some states where it seems the issue of bribery and corruption has not gone down. Henceforth, I am going to hold the Commissioners of Police responsible for this.”

    The IGP attributed the delay in trying suspects arrested for acts of terrorism to the delay in passing the Anti Terrorism Bill, but added that the suspects are undergoing intense interrogation.

    He hinted that an inter-agency committee comprising all the security agencies has been set up to properly screen the suspects and determine their culpability, stressing that a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) is representing the police in the committee.

    Abubakar said the police authorities were still working on the next line of action against the dismissed former Commissioner of Police, Zakari Biu, who was alleged to have taken illegal actions that led to the escape from police custody of a terror suspect, Mr. Kabiru Sokoto.