Latest reports reaching us from police sources
says,the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu has retired
seven senior deputy inspectors general of police.
The affected officers are the deputy inspector general of police (DIG)
in charge of finance and administration, Maigari Dikko and the DIG in
charge of operations, Habila Joshak.
The remaining five DIGs are Emmanuel Inyang, information and
communications technology; Agboola Oshodi-Glover, logistics and supply;
Mohammed Katsina, research and planning; Sani Mohammed, training and
development; and Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah, federal criminal investigation
and intelligence.
Their retirement came Sunday, January 27 in the evening, and Alexreports
learnt that it would be announced formally later. Frank Mba, police
spokesperson’s telephone was switched off at the time of this report.
The seven officers were amongst 15 senior officers reported were likely to be retired on January 17.
The seven DIGs and eight assistant inspectors-general were identified as
having joined the police before Mr Adamu, who was appointed on January
15 after the former IG Ibrahim Idris was retired as he attained 60
years.
The seven police chiefs’ departure was in furtherance of the convention
that recommends the retirement of senior police chiefs when an officer
junior to them in service or lower in rank is appointed to lead the
institution.
When Mr Idris was appointed IG in 2016, more than 20 DIGs and AIGs were
compelled to retire from service to enable him constitute his management
team.
IGP Adamu has now followed the tradition, which has been criticised as
wasteful and demoralising because of huge resources the nation had spent
on the vast knowledge the officers had acquired over the years.
