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POWER PLAY IN POLICE: Intrigues, inside story of how Edgar’s handover was stopped

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Lagos State is a melting pot where the sublime and the ridiculous exist side by side. The Centre of Excellence is never short of dramas and the latest in these unending spectacle unfolded earlier in the week in the full glare of bemused citizens.

On that day, specifically Tuesday, January 15, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi was supposed to handover the baton of leadership to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, but a phone call from the Force Headquarters stopped the ceremony, retaining Imohimi as the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, while compelling Egbetokun to move back to his former office.

It is worthy to note, that the call came some minutes after Mohammed Adamu’s decoration as the new Inspector General of Police. “On the day that Adamu was decorated, was also the day that Edgal was supposed to handover.

But even on that day, Edgal was just delaying, nobody knew why. It was as if he was waiting for something. And then the phone call came. After he listened to the caller, he handed the phone to Egbetokun, who also listened.

We are, however, not sure whether the phone call was directly from the new IG himself or he gave directives to a senior police officer to stop the handover ceremony,” said a police source.

New Telegraph, January 19, 2019

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