Barring any last-minute change, there is a strong indication
that the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the
immediate redeployment of the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Olawale
Olokode from the state.
An investigation by our correspondent gathered that the
police boss, after several petitions from different quarters on the alleged
ineptitude and lack of proper coordination on the part of the Osun Commissioner
to properly coordinate his men in the state, took the decision over the
weekend.
Recall that the Force Disciplinary Committee (FDC) began
reviewing disciplinary cases instituted against 130 Senior Police Officers of
the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police and above in order to determine
their culpability or otherwise.
The high-ranking officers all over the country comprise two
Commissioners of Police, three Assistant Commissioners of Police, 11 Chief
Superintendents of Police, 19 Superintendents of Police, 18 Deputy
Superintendents of Police, and 77 Assistant Superintendents of Police.
A reliable source disclosed that Olokode was redeployed
after a recommendation.
Recall that the Osun State Commissioner of Police was
accused of superintending the shooting of a correspondent of The Nation
Newspaper, Toba Adedeji on May 31, in the course of covering a peaceful protest
against police brutality in the state.
The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osun
State Council, Wasiu Ajadosu, in a press statement issued on the incident,
continuously demanded immediate redeployment of Olokode for his failure to
ensure the security of lives and property of the citizenry in the state,
especially pressmen.
Ajadosu, posited that the statutory obligation of the police
in the state was terribly in reverse order, adding that the leadership of the
police in Osun has been compromised beyond redemption.
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