3 DIGs, 10 AIGs To Go As IGP Adamu Set To Retirement

 

Three Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) and 10 Assistant Inspectors Generals (AIGs) are legally booked to leave the Nigeria Police Force as the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, bows out on February 1. 

Six of the excess 19 AIGs will likewise be cleared away this year among March and October, in a storm of retirements which will likewise influence a few Commissioners of Police. 

Adamu is required to resign close by the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police accountable for Logistics and Supplies, Aminchi Baraya; the Deputy Inspector General of police responsible for Directorate of Intelligence and previous Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), DIG Ibrahim Lamorde, and DIG Nkpa Inakwu, who is among the five officials raised to the position in December 2020, however was not relegated a portfolio because of his infirmity. 

Sunday Sun minds records in the momentum police staff list additionally showed that the AIGs resigning with the occupant IGP incorporate AIG Hosea Karma, AIG Mohammed Mustafa, AIG Jonah Mava, AIG Olusholla David and AIG Yununa Babas. Others are AIG Nkereuwem Akpan, AIG Olafimihan Adeoye, AIG Agunbiade Lasore, AIG Undie Adie and AIG Olugbenga Adeyanju. 

The advancement has made tension and nervousness at the Louis Edet House Police base camp in Abuja as the tussle of who succeeds the active IGP enters Zero Hour, in the midst of reports of heightened entryway to expand his residency. 

Among those said to be propping up to assume control over the stick from Adamu are three Deputy Inspectors General of Police, two Assistant Inspectors General of Police and a Commissioner of Police as of late sent as acting Assistant Inspector General of police, Force CID Annex, Lagos. They incorporate DIG Sanusi Lemu, DIG Usman Alkali Baba, DIG Dan-Mallam Mohammed, AIG Hafiz Inuwa, AIG Garba Umar and CP Dasuki Galadanchi, who as of late finished a course at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State. 

Theories are, be that as it may, overflowing on endeavors by some political falcons to mount tension on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to quicken its next traditional gathering during which it takes expansive choices concerning senior cops, including order and advancements. 

CP Dasuki, who is number two in status on the staff list among the 97 officials of police as of now in help, is relied upon to be a recipient of the following advancement to the position of AIG. Reports said that he has just been sent to the Force CID Annex, Lagos, as acting AIG in front of his foreseen rise to the considerable position at the approaching PSC meeting. 

The unsubstantiated tension on the PSC to hurry its next sitting, as per solid security sources, originated from distress by some force intermediaries envious of supporting the norm to guarantee their favored contender for the plum work scaled the obstacles endorsed by the revised Police Act 2020 which was endorsed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on September 17, 2020. 

In particular, the new Police Act gave among others, that an individual to be selected IGP will be a senior cop not beneath the position of an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), with the imperative scholastic capability of at least a first degree or its comparable notwithstanding proficient and administrative experience. 

Section 111 Section 7 (6) of the Act, which revoked the Police Act Cap. P19, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, endorsed a four-year single residency for an individual selected to the workplace of the IGP subject to the arrangements of provision 18 (cool, which specifies that each cop will, on enrollment or arrangement, serve in the Nigeria Police Force for a time of 35 years or until he accomplishes the age of 60 years, whichever is prior. 

In spite of the fact that there were introductory feelings of dread concerning whether a judgment of the Court of Appeal conveyed a year ago on a lawful challenge irritating on command between the PSC and the IGP would briefly hamper execution of the Police Act 2020, lawful specialists have explained that it just invalidated a piece of the Act identified with the order of the PSC. 

Checks by Sunday Sun demonstrated that passing by the arrangements of the Police Act 2020, all the three DIGs and two AIGs in the race for the workplace of IGP have been trapped in the snare of the obstacles as none of them has four additional years left in the administration – a legal essential for qualification. While DIG Sanusi Lemu is planned to stop the police power on January 30, 2023, DIG Usman Baba and DIG Dan-Mallam Mohammed will bow out on March 1, 2023 and December 18, 2023 individually. 

In a similar vein, odds of the two AIGs supposedly looking at the top occupation are likewise burdened by their dates of retirement which missed the mark concerning the arrangements in the new Police Act for the residency of a nominee to the workplace of IGP. AIG Garba Umar has May 15, 2023 as retirement date, similarly as AIG Hafiz Inuwa is required to exit on March 21, 2024. 

Strangely, just one among the 29 AIGs who are general obligation officials right now in assistance isn't confined by any arrangement of the Police Act 2020, yet antennas demonstrated he has an informal obstacle of political propensities to battle with. Brought into the world on June 1, 1970, AIG Moses Jitoboh who hails from the southern flank of the nation actually has nine years in help, yet he isn't among the names hawked as front liners for the situation of IGP. 

A graduate of NIPSS, Jitoboh is as of now the acting DIG responsible for Research and Planning, and was until his new sending, the AIG Border Patrol Unit. A different degree holder and PhD competitor in Geographical Information System at the Graduate School of Abia State University, and was all at once, AIG responsible for Zone 8 police order just as Commissioner of police, Adamawa State Police Command, among others. 

Meanwhile, the lone senior cop of northern extraction who isn't ensnared by the arrangements of the Police Act is Dasuki Galadanchi, a Commissioner of Police who is expected to resign on March 3, 2025. His lone tangle, notwithstanding, is that he is yet to achieve the affirmed rank of AIG to be qualified for arrangement as IGP. 

This, as per sources in the security circle, may have impelled the hypothesized push for the PSC to hold its regular gathering soon, to light up his odds in what gives off an impression of being a round of karma and the assurance of Police Council headed by President Buhari to maintain the precepts of the Constitution and the standard of law.