Even though the current administration inherited worst security situations in Nigeria culminating in daily attacks and loss of tens or hundreds of lives even in Abuja especially by the dreaded Boko Haram boys which it has reduced drastically, there is no justification in supervising worsening security situations occasioned by diminishing returns of the nation security chiefs, Rights and Freedom Advocates (RIFA) noted.

Recall that in January 2020, the House of Representatives called for replacement of service chiefs while the senate corroborated same in July 2020. Having reviewed the security and human rights situations of the country, RIFA hereby support the call for IGP and service chiefs removal without further delay.

Mohammed Abubakar Adamu was appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP) on January 15, 2019, to replace Ibrahim Idris who attained retirement age at the time. The worrisome level of indiscipline and unprofessional conducts of police officers geometrically increased during IGP Adamu tenure.

This has deteriorated to the extent that raping, killing, escape from lawful police custody of prime suspects in serial killings, assaulting and maiming of Nigerians become cheaper for the criminal police officers and other criminally-minded people to commit under the watch of the current IGP who has shown that Nigeria Police is too big for him to manage.

For instance, in October 2019, the only surviving son of a family was gruesomely murdered by some Special Anti-Robbery Squad officers in Sepeteri, Oyo State apart from other atrocities by many police officers across the nation and till date no release has been made on the .... Continue reading >>> Insecurity: Nigeria Needs New IGP