There are indications of massive demotion, promotion and retirement in the Nigeria Police in the coming days, The Eagle Online has been told.
The Eagle Online was told that out of the present crop of Deputy Inspectors General of Police, the Acting Inspector General, Mohammed Adamu, may retain just two.
The tradition in the Police had been that once an Assistant Inspector General of Police is appointed as IGP, the DIGs are sacked.
Adamu was an AIG when President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him as IG.
Sources, however, told The Eagle Online that two of the present crop of DIGs may scale the hurdle.
Those that will go, sources said, were accused of having risen “through crooked ways”.
Also scheduled for demotion are some of those promoted in the late hours of the exit of a former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Sir Mike Mbam Okiro, and the former IGP, Ibrahim Idris.
As reported by The Eagle Online at the time, some of those promoted were accused of having paid their way through.
Some of the over 2,000 affected by the promotion then, were said to have paid as much as N2 million to secure the promotion.
A source in the Force Headquarters in Abuja said some of the senior officers in this category have been summoned by the IG and confronted with the allegation last week.
They were said to have been told to expect the outcome of their action any time from now.
A source in the Office of Adamu equally told The Eagle Online that those that have been denied promotion over the years for inability to pay their way through or having godfathers are also scheduled for elevation in the coming days.
Sources said the IG plans to intimate the PSC under former IG Musiliu Smith of the need to elevate the policemen.
It was alleged that Idris ran the Force, especially the issue of promotion, with a few selected policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, who was saddled with the posting of policemen, including his superiors.
Some senior policemen told The Eagle Online that they considered Idris’s handling of the Force while he held sway as IG in this manner as an affront.
Source: The Eagle Online
