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IGP: Senior Police officers to retire as a Junior takes over
With the appointment of Ibrahim Idris as the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), seven Deputy Inspectors General of the Force as well as several Assistant Inspectors General may have to be retired.
With the appointment of Ibrahim Idris as the acting Police boss by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, what it means by tradition in the force is that senior officers must have to step down.
Mr. Idris was an assistant inspector general in charge of operations and currently, there are seven deputy inspectors general who worked under the retired IGP, Solomon Arase.
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The DIGs are Danazumi Doma, in charge of Finance and Administration, Sotonye Wakama, in charge of Operations and Mamman Tsafe, who is in charge of Logistics and Supplies.
Others include, Kakwe Tsatso, Criminal Investigations and Intelligence; Hashimu Argungu, Training; Jubril Adeniji, Research and Planning; and Chintua Amajor-Onu, in charge of Information and Communication Technologies.
A reliable source at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, confirmed that apart from the DIGs, several Assistant Inspectors General, AIGs have to resign as well.
“You know we have over 30 AIGs and most if not all would definitively go because they were senior to the Acting IG,” he said.
Ripples investigation revealed that many of officers were unaware of who will succeed Mr. Arase, including the retired IG himself as there was no sign or signal regarding who the presidency will appoint.
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