The Police Service Commission (PSC) has dismissed four senior police officers over cases of misconduct and acts unbecoming of public officers. The commission also reduced in rank two other officers while also reprimanding four others.
According to a statement issued on Sunday by the head of press and public relations unit of PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, the commission took these decisions at its 10th plenary meeting presided over by its chairman, Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police, which ended on Friday, December 18, 2020.
‘’A Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) was dismissed for discreditable conduct, dishonesty and act unbecoming of a public officer while a Superintendent of Police (SP) was also dismissed for conspiring with four others to vandalise a transformer and stealing. The commission also directed that the SP be prosecuted.
The statement further listed two other dismissed officers to include a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). The DSP was said to have led a team that intercepted three Mercedes Benz trucks conveying about 300,000 live cartridges believed to have been smuggled across the border from Benin Republic into Nigeria.
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The team was said to have impounded the trucks at the base for three days but made no entries nor a situation report of the arrest relayed. The DSP rather raised a fake letter purporting to escort the vehicles and suspects to Federal SARS, Lagos, with the dubious intention of ensuring their unlawful release. Luck, however, ran out of the team when they were intercepted at a military checkpoint where soldiers on duty insisted on verifying the contents of the trucks. The DSP and his team were said to have abandoned the trucks and fled.
“The ASP was dismissed for misappropriation, action prejudicial to the security of the state; sabotage; dishonesty and act unbecoming of a public officer.”
The PSC also treated several appeals and petitions, the statement said, adding that the commission, also during the plenary meeting, approved the promotion of four Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIG) to the substantive rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG). The new DIGS are expected to represent their geo-political zones in the police management team.
The new DIGS include Usman Alkali Baba, currently acting DIG administration; AIG Dan Mallam Mohammed, AIG in charge of Zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra State; AIG David Oyebanji Folawiyo, AIG in charge of Zone 17, Akure and CP Joseph Egbunike, CP, budget.
Thirteen Commissioners of Police (CP) were elevated to the rank of AIG, 23 Deputy Commissioners (DCP) to CP, 29 Assistant Commissioners (ACP) to DCP.
