A former Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and current senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Hamman Misau, on Friday, alleged that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, of collecting bribes to post police personels.
He alleged that the IGP collects roughly N120 billion as payment for special security services rendered by the Police to corporate bodies, oil firms, highly placed citizens every year, without spending a dime out of it for more than 50,000 personnel involved and the Force as a body.
Misau stated this at a media briefing in reaction to an allegation made against him by the Force on Thursday that he was on a vendatta mission against it, having been unceremoniously dismissed for unscrupulous activities.
He alleged further that postings of officers in the Force as State Police Commissioners (CPs) or Mobile Commanders, are done on the basis of N10 to N15 million bribe payment.
According to him, the Nigeria Police under IGP Idris is a cesspool of corruption, nepotism, indiscipline, favouritism and lowest level of morale that must not be allowed to continue in the interest of the ongoing anti-corruption war and urgent need to stem the tide of increasing rate of crime and criminality in the country.
He said, “The incumbent IGP based on available records and series of petitions and reports from insiders, has no capacity to run the Police just like the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Rtd IGP Mike Okiro who also lacks similar capacity going by N300 million scam and others hanging on his neck since 2011 during the Presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) where he served as the head of the security committee.
“Specifically, the IGP on good authority from within the force, collects over N10bn on monthly basis as money for special security provided by men of the force to corporate bodies and highly placed ndividuals including criminals, running to N120billion on yearly basis without any reflection in Police annual budgets or internally generated revenue”.
“On nepotism, the IGP is scoring high mark by making almost half of the mobile commanders in the country, people of his Nupe extraction and on favouritism, appointing CP Moses Jitoboh an officer who had been out of field of operational service to that of Political service for close to 20 years, as Adamawa State Police Commissioner,” he added.
He wondered how such a CP who according to him, served the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diprieye Alamieyesigha as ADC before moving to Goodluck Jonathan in similar capacity when he was made Governor, to the time he was Vice President, Acting President and an elected President, lead war against crime and criminality in a state in high need of intelligence gathering that can be gotten from contacts within and not from political contacts outside the state.
Such postings he added, have not in anyway helped the Police in its war against crime and criminality in the country which has led to over sensationalization of lesser feats in that respect like that of Evans the kidnapper arrested through a tip off given by an escapee.
“Police is not a political outfit and should not be allowed to be turned into it by IGP Idris”, he warned .
He debunked the allegatipm made by Police Force Headquarters on Thursday by their spokesperson Jimoh Moshood that he was unceremoniously dismissed for misdeeds by tabling the letter upon which his retirement from the force was effected by the Police Service Commission.
Meanwhile, the Police spokesman, Moshood has asked Nigerians and the Senate to dismiss statements credited to Misau, saying everything he said about the IGP and the Police is false.
According to him, Misau is ‘’a habitual and unrepentant liar. His real name in the police is DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman, with police number AP No. 57300. He is still a police officer and not a senator because his name is still in police.
“The Senate will do the nation good by asking him to return to the Nigeria Police Force to face disciplinary committee and answer all the charges bordering on serious misconduct, unprofessional wrong doings as earlier contained in our press statement released today.
‘’We want the public to know that he is not fit and proper to be senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; because that purported retirement letter he displayed today was forged. He is wanted by the Force for forgery and desertion which are all criminal offences in the Nigeria law books.
“All DSP Hamman was saying were cheap blackmail, distraction and deliberate acts to derail investigation. So the force will want the Senate Ethics and Privileges committee which we have confidence and trust in to see reason to ask him to dress up in his police uniform to come and appear before police disciplinary committee to answer charges against him.
‘’The IGP has no use to distractions DSP Hamman is instituting before the public, and no matter the position any person is, once he run afoul of the law, he will be made to answer the charges,” Moshood stated.
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