Shocker! New IG of Police Writes President Buhari for Immediate Retirement of 30 AIG's...See Details

Posted by Odinaka on Mon 27th Jun, 2016 - tori.ng

No fewer than 30 senior officers of the Nigeria Police Force are set for retirement. This was sequel to a letter written to the presidency by the new acting Inspector General of Police.

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ThisDay Newspaper has exclusively reported on monday that the new acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has allegedly written to President Muhammadu Buhari, recommending the immediate retirement of 30 senior police officers.

It was gathered that the police officers are of the rank of Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of police, and even though they are all coursemates with the new IGP, they are his senior in terms of promotion.

It was further learnt that some of the attempts made by some AIGs to meet and greet him since his appointment by the president was said to have proven abortive as they were blocked off.

A source who spoke to ThisDay said, “There is serious tension at the Police Headquarters in Abuja. We have heard that the new acting IG wants to retire both his seniors and coursemates.

”On Friday, he wrote to the presidency, through the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and it was approved and forwarded to the desk of the President for final approval.

“According to what Idris wrote, his reason why he asked for their retirement is that he cannot work with them. He said he wants to in all sense of the world take charge of the police.

”He said since he has been given the responsibility to provide security, it was imperative that these AIGs be removed because they might be a clog in his wheel of progress.

“With this move, there is a tendency to make 14 Commissioners of Police AIGs since the available and compulsory vacancy for AIGs is 26.

“Already before now, 12 AIGs were promoted. From the 12, they will take seven of them to become Deputy Inspector General (DIGs) of Police and then they will be forced to go to the CP rank to fill up the AIG rank of 26.

”We wonder why they are removing experienced hands that would have helped him steer the police to greater heights.

“These officers that will be retired, are the last set of senior policemen that were trained abroad, or have gone for short courses.

“I don’t know why we are wasting manpower. By removing these old hands, we will have to expend huge amount of money to train the new crop of AIGs and CPs,” the source said.