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New Police Boss Retires His Seniors, 7 Deputy Inspectors General

The new acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu is said to have retired seven Deputy Inspectors General of police, who were his seniors.

The affected officers are Maigari Dikko, the DIG in charge of finance and administration and Habila Joshak, the DIG in charge of operations.

The remaining five DIGs are Emmanuel Inyang, information and communications technology; Agboola Oshodi-Glover, logistics and supply; Mohammed Katsina, research and planning; Sani Mohammed, training and development; and Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah, federal criminal investigation and intelligence.

Their retirement came today, Sunday evening, and is due to be announced formally later.

Police spokesperson, Frank Mba’s telephone was switched off at the time of this report.

The seven DIGs and eight assistant inspectors-general were identified as having joined the police before IGP Adamu, who was appointed on January 15 after the former IG Ibrahim Idris was retired as he attained 60 years.

The retirement of the seven police chiefs is in furtherance of the convention that recommends the retirement of senior police chiefs when an officer junior to them in service or lower in rank is appointed to lead the institution.

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When Idris was appointed IG in 2016, more than 20 DIGs and AIGs were compelled to retire from service to enable him constitute his management team.

Adamu has now followed the tradition, which has been criticized as wasteful and demoralizing because of huge resources the nation had spent on the vast knowledge the senior officers had acquired over the years.

Source: PREMIUM TIMES.

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