ACTING INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE

Security experts confident of new police top management.

Security experts in Lagos say they are optimistic of improved policing in the country following the appointment of new deputy inspectors-general and assistant inspectors-general of police.
The experts, in Lagos, described the new appointees as the best hands in the force.
They said the composition of the officers at the high command was a clear indication that the government was set for business.
a retired CP, Frank Odita said if it was the IG, Muhammad Abubakar, who picked the team, then he made a ``wonderful selection’’.
He said Abubakar could best be described as a man of the people who would do a good job.
Odita noted that already re-organisation had begun in the force, adding that people should expect more changes this month.
Moses Adams, a retired DCP, urged the police authorities to embark on a mass retrenchment of officers and men indicted of corrupt practices.
Adams said this would serve as a signal to other bad officers in the force and restore public confidence in the police.
A retired CSP, Umar Muhammad, was optimistic that there would be good service delivery by police personnel because of the new set of officers at the top.
Folorunsho Atta, a crime Journalist, described the new police management team as `a superb one’, full of ``intellectual officers’’ who had distinguished themselves operationally and administratively.
Abubakar Tsav, a former CP in Lagos State, urged the new DIGs to be loyal to the IG, noting that there was no way the IG could succeed without their cooperation.
He advised senior officers to desist from collecting ``returns’’ from junior officers, adding that asking junior officer to collect bribes was at the root of undisciplined behaviour in the force.
Tthe new DIGs are SuleimanDauda Fakai, Atiku Kafur, Emmanuel Kachi Udeoji, Haruna John, P.Y. Gana, Marvel Akpoyibo and Abdulrahman Akano.
The AIGs are Solomon Olusegun, Mike Zuokumor, Ghandi Orubebe, Philemon Leha, Jonathan Johnson, Dan’Azumi Doma, Joseph Ibi, Murktari Ibrahim, Suleiman Abba, Mamman Thafe, Hashimu Argungu, Solomon Arase, and David Omojola.