The Inspector-General of Police,
Ibrahim Idris, has reinstated Mr Ali Janga as the Commissioner of Police in
Kogi State for meeting the one week ultimatum given to him to re-arrest the
suspects who escaped from police custody.
The Police Public Relations
Officer, PPRO ASP William Aya, told newsmen in Lokoja on Thursday that Janga
returned to office on April 3 on the order of the Inspector – General of
Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris.
Janga had on March 28 announced
that six suspects, including Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama and Nuhu Salisu, who had
named Sen. Dino Melaye as their gun supplier escaped from lawful police custody
in Lokoja.
Following the incident, the
Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, removed Janga as the state Commissioner
of Police and named Mr Sunday Ogbu as his replacement.
The police spokesman confirmed
that all the six suspects that escaped from police custody on March 28 had been
re-arrested, adding that 13 persons that aided the escape of the suspects had
been arrested in Lokoja.
He disclosed that those arrested
are commercial tricycle operators that ferried the suspects to safety after
their escape and the owners of the houses where they slept after their escape
from custody.
Aya said that all the suspects
would be charged to court after conclusion of investigation.
Meanwhile, We gathered that the Kogi governor’s had told the National Security Adviser that
he was not comfortable working with the new Commissioner of Police for
political reasons.
Bello allegedly told the NSA that
he had invested in security in the state to ensure reduction of insecurity.
Sources in Lokoja told our
correspondent that Bello insisted that Kogi has a peculiar problem and that the
hierarchy should be guided, which according to him, the old CP was doing very
well.
It was following this complaint
that the NSA subsequently urged the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris
to look into Kogi case.
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