Buhari chooses Adamu Mohammed acting IGP?

Signs developed, the previous evening, that President Muhammadu Buhari has delegated Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Adamu Mohammed, as acting Inspector General of Police.

Adamu Mohammed
                                                      Adamu Mohammed
                                                 
 Updatercrew Media gathered that the appointment followed a meeting the President had with the outgoing IGP, Ibrahim Idris, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Efforts to confirm this from spokesman of the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, however, proved fruitless as he said he was not in a position to confirm the information. Similarly, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, also said there was no official confirmation of the appointment. But it was learned that the acting IGP was appointed by the President, in view of the retirement of the incumbent on January 3, 2019, when he clocked the mandatory 35 years in service. He will be 60 years today. AIG Abubakar Adamu Mohammed hails from Lafia in Nasarawa State. He was brought from National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS.

He was Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State, Commissioner of Police, Enugu State and has likewise served at Interpol and FCIID, Alagbon for a few years previously he was elevated to the position of AIG. The retirement of the active IGP has produced such a great amount of debates as sentiments of partners in the nation had been blended. While some needed him held as the 2019 races move closer, others fought that he ought not be permitted to superintend the surveys because of the contentions that had hounded his exercises in office.

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Meanwhile, the President met away from public scrutiny with Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday. The gathering began around 4.30p.m when the President came back from a capacity sorted out by the Sultan of Sokoto's Foundation for girlchild instruction at the Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja. Review that President Buhari had met with the IGP, on Friday, January 4, 2019, not long after the Jumma'at petition at the State House mosque. The IGP was selected by President Buhari on March 21, 2016, to supplant Solomon Arase, who resigned from the police constrain on June 21, 2016. He was enrolled into the Nigeria Police Force in 1984, in the wake of moving on from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, with a Bachelor's certificate in Agriculture. He went out about 5:10 pm and the plan of his gathering with the president was not made open at press time.

 Anxiety, as 7 DIGs risk forceful retirement

There was, notwithstanding, nervousness at the Police High Command, Abuja, yesterday, over the destiny of seven Deputy Inspectors General of Police, if the new IGP, who is bring down in rank, expect office tomorrow. Those to be influenced incorporate Joshak Habila, responsible for Department of Operations; Maigari Abatti Dikko,who heads Department of Logistics and Supply; H. M. Dagala, of Department of Criminal Intelligence and Investigations, and Emmanuel Inyang , who is accountable for Department of Training and Development. Others are Shuaibu Gambo, who heads Department of Finance and Administration; Ntom Chukwu of Department of Research and Planning and Foluso Adebanjo, accountable for Department of Information and Communication Technology.








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