IGP in fresh trouble over query to officer who busted fraud cases

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, appears to have landed in fresh crisis, following the revelations already made against him at a sitting of the Senate ad hoc committee investigating allegations raised by Senator Hamman Misau.

The IGP is scheduled to appear before the committee this week, but investigations by the Sunday Tribune indicate that the committee and some anti-graft agencies are already in possession of some documents linking the top cop with alleged mismanagement of some high-profile fraud cases, especially the one leading to the sudden transfer of a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) AbdukyariLafia from the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) to the Police Academy, Kano.

Abdukyari was said to have busted a number of crime cases as the head of the intelligence bureau, including a $1 million fraud case over which he was said to have rejected a $100,000 bribe offer and also busted another N2.4 billion fraud case in Akwa-Ibom, said to be linked to some top politicians.

The DCP’s sudden transfer from the FIB to the Police Academy, Kano and the refusal of the IGP to release him to the Special Investigation Panel (SIP) on the Recovery of Public Property, which made the request through a letter by its chairman, Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla in September, were said to have opened a flurry of inquests into the IGP’s handling of the Abdukyari matter.

Tribune, October 29, 2017

 

 

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