Tag: IGP

Why We Negotiate With Kidnappers, Bandits To Free Hostages – IGP

10Nov

By Mary UgwuanyiNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Why We Negotiate With Kidnappers, Bandits To Free Hostages – IGP

Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector General of Police, has explained by security operatives sometimes go into negotiation with non-state actors in order to secure the safe release of hostages. He explained that it would be risky to apply extreme force in a bid to free hostages abducted by armed terrorists. Alkali Baba disclosed this when he appeared at the weekly briefings coordinated by the Presidential Media Team in Abuja on Thursday. The Police Chief stated this against the backdrop of more than 80 Chibok girls still in the captivity of Boko Haram, including 29 students of FGC Birni Yauri who remain in captivity several years after their kidnap. He said, “You see, the issue of kidnapping is an issue that borders almost all the security agents, including the military, it is...

IGP Warns Officers Against Using Roadblocks To Extort Money

3Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Corruption, News, Nigeria, Security

IGP Warns Officers Against Using Roadblocks To Extort Money

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, on Tuesday warned police officers in the Federal Capital (FCT) to not use crime prevention measures such as roadblocks and raids for extortion. Baba, who spoke in Abuja at FCT Command during a one-day duty tour, specifically handed this warning to the Divisional Police Officers (DPOs), Area Commanders, and Police Tactical Teams, saying their functions as security agents should not create difficult situations for road users and other law-abiding citizens. See Also: Heavy Security Deployment Not To Intimidate Voters, Says IGP, Warns IPOB He said, “We must ensure that they serve the purpose for which they are deployed. Don’t raid because you want to detain people and begin to ask for bail. Don’t be on the road doing stop and...

Arrest NDLEA Officers Who Worked With Kyari’s Accomplices, IGP Tells Marwa

15Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Corruption, Crime, Drug Abuse, News, Nigeria

Arrest NDLEA Officers Who Worked With Kyari’s Accomplices, IGP Tells Marwa

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has urged the Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa (retd), to immediately arrest officers of the anti-narcotic agency involved in drug crimes with accomplices of suspended cop, Abba Kyari. The police boss made this known in a statement on Monday while announcing the arrest of Kyari and four other police officers fingered by the NDLEA in drug-related crimes. Kyari, the suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, was earlier declared wanted by the NDLEA over alleged drug links. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, had chronicled how Kyari belonged to a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline. The anti-narcotics agen...

Police Panel Recommends Demotion For Abba Kyari To Prevent Extradition

28Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Corruption, Law Enforcement, News, Nigeria

Police Panel Recommends Demotion For Abba Kyari To Prevent Extradition

The probe panel set up by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate the erstwhile Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari, over his links with serial internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, submitted a compromised report, SaharaReporters has gathered. SaharaReporters learnt that the panel found Kyari guilty of some infractions after its investigations but recommended that Kyari should be demoted and not dismissed. Top sources in the Nigeria Police Force told SaharaReporters on Friday that the plot by the police authorities to hand Kyari a demotion was to frustrate his much anticipated extradition to the United States. It was earlier reported that the probe panel set up by the IGP after three weeks of dilly-dallying turned in it...

IGP Receives NPF Panel Report On DCP Abba Kyari

27Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Corruption, Law Enforcement, News, Nigeria

IGP Receives NPF Panel Report On DCP Abba Kyari

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc on Thursday, 26th August, 2021, received the report of the NPF Special Investigation Panel (SIP) investigating the alleged indictment of the erstwhile Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The report was submitted by the chairman of the SIP, DIG Joseph Egbunike, at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. DIG Egbunike, while presenting the report, appreciated the IGP for the confidence reposed on him and the members of the Panel to conduct the probe. He noted that the Panel commenced investigations immediately it was inaugurated on 2nd August, 2021 and the report submitted is an outcome of a painstaking, transparent and exhaustive investigative pro...

IGP Recommends Abba Kyari For ‘Immediate’ Suspension

1Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Corruption, News, Nigeria

IGP Recommends Abba Kyari For ‘Immediate’ Suspension

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has recommended the “immediate suspension” of the Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, from the Nigeria Police Force. The recommendation states that DCP Kyari’s suspension will be on pending the outcome of an ongoing internal investigations into his indictment for alleged involvement in a $1.1m internet fraud by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The IGP, in a letter to the Police Service Commission dated July 31, 2021, noted that the recommendation for the suspension of the officer was in line with the internal disciplinary processes of the Force. A Special Investigation Panel comprising four senior police officers, headed by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigatio...

BREAKING: Police Council Confirms Baba as IGP

4Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Breaking News, News, Nigeria

BREAKING: Police Council Confirms Baba as IGP

The Police Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has confirmed Usman Alkali Baba as Inspector General of Police (IGP). Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the meeting, said Baba was unanimously confirmed. President Buhari had on April 6, appointed Baba as acting Inspector General of Police.

Sports Minister Petitions IG Over Alleged Fake News

18Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Communication, News, Nigeria, Youths

Sports Minister Petitions IG Over Alleged Fake News

Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to investigate Sylvanus Ofekun for alleged criminal defamation and incitement capable of threatening national security. The petition, submitted to the IGP on February 16, alleged that Ofekun, with the moniker “Sleeky Sly” on social media, accused the minister of daily benefitting from Lagos Concession Company (LCC), operator of the Lekki Tollgate, which has been at the centre of the #EndSARS protests. The petition reads: “Our client was surprised when Mr. Sylvanus Ofokun, also known as Sleeky Sly, published unfounded and baseless allegations of corruption against our client through direct reference and innuendo. “Mr. Ofekun is a sports journalist who currently plies his trade wit...

12Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Communication, Nigeria, Press Statement, Safety, Security

NBA Faults Extension of IGP’s Tenure

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has faulted the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to extend the tenure of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu. The association has consequently sued at the Federal High Court in Lagos to compel the a reversal of the purported tenure extension. The suit, marked: FHC/L/CS/214/2021 has as defendants: the President, Federal Republic of. Nigeria; the Police Service Commission (PSC) and Mohammed Abubakar Adamu. The NBA’s contention, in the suit is that the IGP ceased to be a member of the Nigeria Police Force when he attained the milestone of thirty-five years of service. “Therefore, the President’s extension of Mr Adamu’s tenure by three months, in the NBA’s respectful view, is unconstitutional.”

Why Buhari Extended IGP’s Tenure – Police Affairs Minister

4Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Why Buhari Extended IGP’s Tenure – Police Affairs Minister

Following the extension of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector-General of Police for three months, the Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi has said the decision was reached to allow for a robust and efficient process of appointing a new IGP. He stated this on Thursday in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Adamu’s tenure was supposed to have expired on Monday when he attained 35 years in service. However, the president kept mute on the issue, rather than naming a successor so that Adamu could hand over. The silence by the president and the presidency on the matter prompted speculation that the IGP’s tenure could have been extended secretly as he remained in office since Monday. The development prompted a lawyer, Maxwell Okpara...