How IGP Adamu’s appointment is a slap on face of Igbo – Intersociety
the Rule of Law (Intersociety) has stated that the appointment of
Abubakar Mohammed Adamu, another Northern Muslim from Lafia, Nasarawa
State, North-central Nigeria, as the Inspector-General of Police, is a
slap on the face of South-Easterners.
The group said the shame of the shunning of Igbo officers in the
appointment of a new Inspector-General is even bigger on some
South-East leaders and governors who have been canvassing for votes
for President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement signed by the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the group,
Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi, Intersociety said it was a shame that despite
the calls for the appointment of an officer from the South-East for
the IG position as a way of placating the people of the zone for their
non representation in the security architecture of the country, the
president did otherwise.
The statement read, "It is also our position that the appointment of
Police AIG Abubakar Adamu Muhammed, is not only a slap on the face of
Igbo Nation, but also the Buharists in Southeast Nigeria including the
Southeast Govs in general and Govs William Obiano and Dave Umahi of
Anambra and Ebonyi States in particular.
"They should go and bury their faces in shame. If such brazen regional
isolation in the country's top security architecture could repeatedly
be manifested and cemented in this crucial national election campaign
period, then the position of the Igbo Nation in the country's scheme
of things in post 2019 election Nigeria is irreversibly or intractably
doomed and darkened."
The group said in one of its publication, it disclosed that out of the
country's 22 top security and justice establishments and their
headships, 18 are held by the North and four by the South; out of
which 19 are Muslims with only three Christians.
It said none of those 22 top security positions was allocated to the
South-East, and that it had advised the president to show that he does
not hate the people of the South-East as has been severally said, by
appointing a top police officer from the zone to the position of the
Inspector-General of Police, upon the retirement of the previous, but
regretted that such plea failed.
It said, "The Buhari Administration is totally condemned for refusing
to appoint a senior police from the Southeast as next IGP to console
the Region from the past four years of central and regional
socio-political segregation, exclusion and structural violence."
The group also said that the former IG, Ibrahim Idris, stayed 12
illegal days after his stated date of retirement, alleging that he may
have falsified his date of birth to gain 12 more days in office, after
he was supposed to vacate office on 3rd January 2019.
"The Federal Government of Nigeria is therefore called upon to
thoroughly and conclusively investigate former IGP Ibrahim Idris over
the subject matter and recover all public funds including overheads
and operational costs as well as paraphernalia allowances, personal
earnings and other illegitimately authorized expenditures;
cumulatively authorized and spent by former IGP Idris in his 12
illegal days in office as Nigeria's IGP or between 3rd and 15th
January 2019," the group said.
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