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Monday’s coordinated attacks on the Imo State Police Command headquarters and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) facility in Owerri by gunmen claimed its first major casualty yesterday with President Muhammadu Buhari firing the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu.
THISDAY checks showed that the president was so angry with the audacious assaults on two key security points in the state that he approved the immediate replacement of Adamu with a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Alkali Baba, in an acting capacity.
Adamu, who was on the spot assessment of the scenes of the attack, was in Owerri when his tenure was peremptorily cut short.
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As the February retirement date of the incumbent Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu draws near, there are varying permutations on who steps in as the new police boss. SUNDAY ADEPOJU writes on the suspense over the unfolding events.
THERE is suspense across board in the Nigeria Police Force over who becomes the next Inspector General of Police (IGP). The seeming uncertainty is most pronounced at the top echelon of the force because of strategic place of the police in the security architecture of the nation.
By official record, the incumbent IGP Mohammed Adamu is expected to bow out of office on February 1, 2021, after a meritorious service to his fatherland. And there are permutations about who might step in as his successor based on extant laws guiding the choice of a substantive IGP. Some bookmakers have tipped the Acting Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Moses Ambakina Jitoboh. Born on June 1, 1970, he enrolled in the force on October 6, 1994 and is