As the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Muhammad Adamu is set to retire on February 1, three Deputy Inspectors General of Police, DIGs, and 10 Assistant Inspectors Generals, AIGs, will also exit the Nigeria Police Force.
Relatedly, six of the remaining 19 AIGs will also leave the Force between March and October this year, the Sunday Sun has reported.
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.
