Mohammed Adamu,
inspector-general of police, has ordered the immediate redeployment of Dandaura
Mustapha, the commissioner of police in Rivers state.
Frank Mba, force
public relations officer, announced Mustapha’s redeployment in a statement on
Friday.
He said Joseph
Mukari has been appointed as the new police commissioner in the state while
Mustapha is now the commissioner of police, provost at the force headquarters,
Abuja.
In the statement,
Mba said: “The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has ordered
the posting and redeployment of the following Senior Police Officers to
Command/Formation/Department indicated against their names:
CP Dandaura Mustapha
– CP Provost FHQ, Abuja
CP Joseph Gobum
Mukan, psc(+) – CP Rivers Command
CP Musa Adze, fdc –
CP Anti-Fraud Unit
“The IGP charges the
affected Commissioners of Police to diligently and professionally discharge
their duties in their new areas of responsibilities.
“The posting and the
redeployment of the affected Senior Police Officers is with immediate effect.”
The development
comes one week after Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, locked horns with the
federal government over the arrest of some pilots.
Wike on Froday
ordered the arrest and quarantine of 22 Exxon Mobil staff who entered the state
from Akwa Ibom for allegedly violating the executive order on lockdown.
Wike had previously
ordered the arrest of two pilots of Caverton Helicopters for flying some oil
workers into the state during the lockdown.
The company had
argued that the federal government exempted it from the flight ban but the
governor dismissed the argument and the pilots were arraigned in court and
remanded in prison.
Hadi Sirika,
minister of aviation, later faulted the action of the governor, accusing the
security operatives who arrested the pilots on the governor’s order of
“displaying ignorance”.
The pilots were
later granted bail. It is unclear if the development led to the replacement of
Mustapha who took over the Rivers police command in July.
Earlier on Friday,
Wike had tackled Sirika, accusing the federal government of attempting to make
the people of the state vulnerable to coronavirus.
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