Report reaching us has it that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Muhammad Adamu, will be quiting the stage as number one Police officer in the country as he retires on February 1 this year, 2021.
Also to go this year are three Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) and 10 Assistant Inspectors Generals (AIGs).
Relatedly, six of the remaining 19 AIGs will also leave the Force between March and October this year, the report said.
Those AIGs that would retire with IGP Adamu are AIG Hosea Karma, AIG Mohammed Mustafa, AIG Jonah Mava, AIG Olusholla David and AIG Yununa Babas. Others are AIG Nkereuwem Akpan, AIG Olafimihan Adeoye, AIG Agunbiade Lasore, AIG Undie Adie and AIG Olugbenga Adeyanju.
Among those expected to be picked to succeed IGP Adamu are three Deputy Inspectors General of Police, two Assistant Inspectors General of Police and a Commissioner of Police recently deployed as Acting Assistant Inspector General of police, Force CID Annex, Lagos.
These are DIG Sanusi Lemu, DIG Usman Alkali Baba, DIG Dan-Mallam Mohammed, AIG Hafiz Inuwa, AIG Garba Umar and CP Dasuki Galadanchi, who recently completed a course at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State.
The new Police Act provides that a person to be appointed IGP shall be a senior police officer not below the rank of an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), with the requisite academic qualification of not less than a first degree or its equivalent in addition to professional and managerial experience.
In the meantime, Defender Media Limited has announced that in the future, some officers and men, retired or service, of the Nigeria Police Force, who have made this country great by their disposition to professional policing for national peace and security, will be unfolded.
The first batch of the selection will be considered from those who served between 2014 to the time of of event, including mainly officers of Solomon Arase era to Mohammed Adamu.
Same event will hold also for the recognition of such equivalents in the Nigerian military, particularly, the Army and the Department of State Services (DSS).
This will be done in collaboration with a larger body of digital media publishers when the time comes, the Defender management said in a meeting in Lagos on Sunday.
Records show that Prince Bola Ajibola (SAN), during one of the annual events of Founder’s Day, Crescent University Abeokuta, Nigeria, started the idea of honouring security officers when he selected a serving Ogun State Commissioner of Police and some of his officers and men who did well in fighting cultism, kidnapping and other criminalities for peace and development in the state few years ago.
