Several senior and mid-level police officers
have provided SaharaReporters with a list
of grave acts of corruption allegedly
committed by Inspector-General of Police
(IGP) Ibrahim Idris. The officers, some of them
retired but most still in active service, stated
that the IGP’s notoriety for embezzlement
of funds, frequent abandonment of his post, and
sexual liaisons with subordinates preceded his time
as the Commissioner of Police for Kano State.
The allegationsraise serious questions about Mr.
Idris’s fitness to lead the police force in the
administration of President Muhammadu
Buhari with its vow to build public trust in
institutions.


One of the most alarming allegations against Mr.
Idris relate to the unlawful sale of thirty vehicles.
“Idris should be investigated on the circumstances
leading to the disappearance of about 30 vehicles
which are known to have been released to
fictitious claimants,” one serving police officer
said.


The illicitly sold vehicles include a Honda Accord,
registration number BP 529 KMC, sold to an
Ahmed Sani Mohammed of Kano State, a Honda
Civic, registration number BH 742 NSR, to an
Ibrahim Jamilu of Kano State, a Toyota Sienna,
registration number RBC 501 AM, to a Hajiya
Safiya Danlami of Kano State, a Nissan Murano,
with registration number NSR 389 XV, to a Datti
Abubakar of Kano State, an unregistered Honda
Civic to Garba Shehu of Kano State, and
an unregistered Toyota Matrix to a Friday Kassimu
also of Kano State.


According to our police sources, other
vehicles disposed of in shady circumstances
include an unregistered Mercedes Benz, a
Volkswagen Golf 111, and a Toyota Lexus
Jeep.The sources disclosed that the addresses
associated with the so-called buyers of
the vehicles are incomplete—often without street
numbers or phone number contacts. The incomplete
addresses have made it impossible to
authenticate the identity of the buyers. “It is all
part of the IG’s ploy to
conceal his wrongdoing. We urge the Presidency to
order a probe into the so-called sale of these
cars. They will find that the truth is that Idris
acquired most, if not all, those vehicles for
himself,” one senior police source said.


Police sources told our correspondent that Mr.
Idris was a practiced hand at the selling of public
property for private profit. They alleged that he
played a key role in the unlawful sale of police
property in Kano State outposts for personal gain
during the height of the Boko Haram crisis.
Several police sources remarked on Mr. Idris’s
notoriety for sexual relationships with his
subordinates. “In total disregard of police
ethics, the IG has been cohabitating with a
corporal named Amina,” one source claimed. He
added, “Amina wields a lot of influence within the
force.”


Another officer corroborated the account. “Idris
has the habit of dismissing senior officers during
official hours to spend time with Amina who even
poses for photographs in his office,” said the
source. The sources told SaharaReporters that the
IGP transferred Amina to Abuja where she is now
living luxuriously in a hotel and driven about in a
Frontier Jeep—all her expenses allegedly paid for
by Mr. Idris despite his meager public servant
salary.


Our sources alleged that Mr. Idris’s extravagant
lifestyle extends to the United States where he
has a spouse, a woman he met while on a
peacekeeping mission in Liberia. The US-
based wife, Maria Idris, is of Liberian
descent, and reportedly has two children for the
IGP. Our sources said Mr. Idris has
been supporting his US-based wife,
questioning how he can afford such expenses on
his police salary.
“The IG’s maintenance of a family in faraway
America is
repeatedly discussed by fellow officers. We
wonder howhas been able to pay for the expenses
of his second family in the US,” one source
told SaharaReporters.


Other police sources said they were dismayed that
President Buhari chose a man as IGP who lacks
operational expertise and courage. One officer
alleged that, as the Commissioner of Police in
Kano, Mr. Idris locked himself inside a toilet for
hours during an attack by Islamist insurgents
belonging to Boko Haram in Kano. “During a Boko
Haram raid in 2012, the then Commissioner of
Police [Mr. Idris] locked himself in the toilet for
hours at the State Police Command
Headquarters,” said the source. He added
that Mr. Idris’s hiding allowed Boko
Haram fighters to move through Kano unimpeded,
killing men, women and children as well as police
officers.

Several officers contrasted Mr. Idris’s cowardice
with the bravery displayed in Borno State by the
Commissioner of Police, Simeon Midenda. They said
Mr. Midenda joined some agents of the
Department of State Security (DSS) in a fierce
battle with Boko Haram insurgents. They added
that Mr. Midenda’s efforts led to the killing of
numerous Boko Haram insurgents.
Our police sources also accused Mr. Idris of naked
nepotism in making top appointments. They said
the IGP’s questionable appointments included that
of CSP Kolo to head the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad (SARS). Our sources said Mr. Kolo had been
accused of raping a woman.


They added that Mr. Kolo was never seriously investigated for the alleged rape, adding, “We demand that the then AIG in charge, Alhaji Tambari Yabobe, be
mandated to produce the case file and to explain
why the matter was swept under the carpet.”
Our sources, including a member of a watchdog
group, also accused Mr. Idris of leading a crop of
officers who carried out extrajudicial killings in
Kano State during a period of assaults by Islamist
terrorists.


SaharaReporters repeatedly reached out to Mr.
Idris for comment on these allegations. However,
he declined to take our calls and did not respond
to text messages. SaharaReporters spoke to one
of Mr. Idris’s deputies who said the IG was in a
meeting and would return our call afterwards. Mr.
Idris never rang back.

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Y CAN'T THERE just be a credible, untainted and sincere man or woman as the head of our police for just a day



SORRY title should have been Police IG not IF.

nice development.