EXCLUSIVE: Police dismiss 121 officers for absconding from deployment against Boko Haram (FULL LIST)



December 27, 2018Samuel Ogundipe




The police have dismissed 121 of at least 167 police officers who absconded from a counterterrorism training facility to avoid deployment against Boko Haram insurgents last week, PREMIUM TIMES can report.

The 121 officers of the police rank-and-file were accused of committing mutiny and desertion, prompting Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris to order their dismissal with immediate effect.

A directive has gone out for several police units where the dismissed officers were attached to immediately retrieve all police equipment in their possession and remove them from payrolls, according to a December 26 signal seen by PREMIUM TIMES.

The mass dismissal comes a day after PREMIUM TIMES broke the news of the large-scale desertion, eliciting renewed nationwide concerns about Nigeria’s progress in the Boko Haram war, which is now entering its tenth year.

The 167 police officers whom PREMIUM TIMES confirmed as having absconded were amongst the 2,000 sent on a counter-insurgency training at the Nigerian Army Special Forces Training School in Buni Yadi, Yobe State.

Scores of them disappeared after learning that they would be deployed in active combat against Boko Haram in communities where the insurgents are still virulent, as against relatively peaceful settlements like Maiduguri metro area.

They were then declared wanted, amidst fears that they could be harmful because they did not submit the arms, ammunition and other police equipment in their possession before fleeing.

The police had in their first reaction on Wednesday night strongly denied that the officers absconded as reported by PREMIUM TIMES, with their spokesperson Jimoh Moshood saying from the Force Headquarters that the 2,000 officers were still in the training centre ready for deployment against Boko Haram thugs.

The signals detailing the mass dismissal, which were authenticated by police chiefs at the top command, surfaced while the Nigerian Army contradicted the police’s claim that officers did not abscond.



Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/303059-exclusive-police-dismiss-121-officers-for-absconding-from-deployment-against-boko-haram-full-list.html

Like they care!

I'm sure they'll go to church next Sunday to give thanksgiving!

Nigerian govt establishments and denial. Army and police will deny any news about them, so long as it doesn't score them 100℅ in good light.

Bandits kill 200 of their men, they'll strongly deny any killing, later they'll accept only 9 were killed. If their spokesperson speaks the truth he/she is removed the next week and replaced with a liar. I want to ask them a question. The dead people they deny their death, will they come back to life after the lie has lasted a while? Shouldn't the truth about them at least serve as the last honour?

This one has gummed their teeth because there is conflict of interest. Police lie, Army say the truth, simply because the lie affects them - Na dem dey conduct the training, and they desperately need men to keep fighting the terrorists.

But wait o, you think police will leave bribe and agree to go fight book Haram? Mbanu! Those abscondee police will be like "No need for new training, let those who are trained already do the job". Lol!

But this tells that all the news we've heard since about this absconding matter are all true. One said they are mostly southern Christians, the list agrees.

Again make I ask: did Ogungbemi idowu and uchenna ibigieogu abscond four times that led to sacking them four times as the last part of the list suggests, or is it just the normal police incompetence and docility?

Knowing that this memo was issued on 21st December and the police was still denying this as at 25th December is shameful and cowardly on their part. Let me ask again. Who do they want to give orderly room trial, butterfly wey don turn to arm robber somewhere to survive? Country with more mad citizens than same ones.

Why wouldnt they run my brother life no get duplicate. And this list look somehow, Army should list out names of those soldiers that die at northeast states I want to confirm something.

This is something those Lai lie people denied chai !!! Devils
Those escapees deserve some accolades walahi for escaping from Buhari's wicked plans to do blood sacrifice with them

If my husband were amongst them, I would welcome him with the tightest hugs, sweetest kisses, and make sure he eats the best meal of his life...including the one served in the other room.

Like they care. They should go do something meaningful with their lives rather than wasting it in the hands of sponsored boko boys.

Only in a confused country will you see the military maintaining law and order for the police while the police in turn go to fight wars for the military

See how southerners full the list, yet, some senseless southerners or even Christians are still supporting this religiously biased govt.

Is better I am dismissed than to die for these useless country and my family will be in suffering. Let's go get another job jor

Xander85:
Like they care!

I'm sure they'll go to church next Sunday to give thanksgiving!

You talk so senseless, from Sunday your pastor go the feed them , the set of people in the police and military now are coward, if you don't want to fight war don't join police and military, people who can do this things are there , while collect note , there are jobs that are not for jobs seeker.

highpriestess:
See how southerners full the list, yet, some senseless southerners or even Christians are still supporting this religiously biased govt.

For your information, it is very hard for a notherner to deserts because of fight which you signed to fight but your southerner brothers are coward.

Buhari is on a mission. The list is full of Igbos and Yorubas with about 8 Hausas. Why?

First of all they Lie that No one Absconded!

Secondly, From the list I see here the Northerners here are not up to 10!

They are definitely issues wrong with our Security outfits

Thought they said no one absconded?

supportnija:

For your information, it is very hard for a notherner to deserts because of fight which you signed to fight but your southerner brothers are coward.

So what stops Northerners from being sent! Afterall they are Employed more

Na like this them dodge Boko

supportnija:

You talk so senseless, from Sunday your pastor go the feed them

On the contrary sir, it is you who speaks senselesly. The soldiers that died (over 100 of them) are you the one feeding them and their family? If they go there and die, will you take care of their families for them?

supportnija:
the set of people in the police and military now are coward, if you don't want to fight war don't join police and military

First thing first, Nigeria police are not trained to fight war. Even our army are not trained enough to fight war talk more of ordinary police.

Just so you know, the duty of a police officer is to protect civilians and enforce laws not fight wars but in a messed up country like our own, it is the army that enforce laws to the detriment of the civilians

supportnija:

people who can do this things are there , while collect note , there are jobs that are not for jobs seeker.

This is the mentality that ruined this nation. If you can't do it, another person will even though it is not part of job.


It madness sir.

It is better to be sent of and be with theor love ones than to go face deadly boko boys n be slaughtered like chicken. On top how much. Let bubu n osibanjo go n send their children n family members to face them.

Great decision. I applaud your wise desertion.

Boko haram was created and funded by the savage northerners. Let them deal with it.

You are restricted, via quota system, from rising to the pinnacle of your career. They say they own the "FORCE". But they can send the bulk of you from the "undesirable" section of the country to go and die for the criminality they created.

Sick sahelian bastards.

supportnija:

You talk so senseless, from Sunday your pastor go the feed them , the set of people in the police and military now are coward, if you don't want to fight war don't join police and military, people who can do this things are there , while collect note , there are jobs that are not for jobs seeker.

What are u saying? Are police meant to fight war?

Abeg......contact me I wan marry u.

Yuceeluv:
If my husband were amongst them, I would welcome him with the tightest hugs, sweetest kisses, and make sure he eats the best meal of his life...including the one served in the other room.

Most south westerners are affected

Crime rates will surely increase next year.

Being jobless is better than dying for the useless country.

121 Nigerian Police personnel from south South, southeast, southwest and north central who are Christians are tactically dismissed from the force.

Next level my shit

If govt want to recruit police force, nah northerners go plenty. If they want to send police to sambisa forest nah southerners go plenty

It doesn't make sense to deploy Southern officers to troubled areas where they are total strangers to the terrain and can't speak the local language.

We all know the locals in the region Boko Haram hold sway don't not speak passable broken English. If the Chibok girls who were Waec candidates conducted interviews in Hausa, is it the local hunter or farmer who can then communicate in English?
In policing, language and ability to communicate is everything.
The authorities need to review their methods, except it was a deliberate policy, which arouses suspicion.

This government & all agencies under it are incredibly stupid with lies, lies, lies and lies.These idiots denied this shame when it was bursted 2days ago but today they are declaring the same Christians deserters dismissed.

ruffhandu:
Nigerian govt establishments and denial. Army and police will deny any news about them, so long as it doesn't score them 100℅ in good light.

Bandits kill 200 of their men, they'll strongly deny any killing, later they'll accept only 9 were killed. If their spokesperson speaks the truth he/she is removed the next week and replaced with a liar. I want to ask them a question. The dead people they deny their death, will they come back to life after the lie has lasted a while? Shouldn't the truth about them at least serve as the last honour?

This one has gummed their teeth because there is conflict of interest. Police lie, Army say the truth, simply because the lie affects them - Na dem dey conduct the training, and they desperately need men to keep fighting the terrorists.

But wait o, you think police will leave bribe and agree to go fight book Haram? Mbanu! Those abscondee police will be like "No need for new training, let those who are trained already do the job". Lol!

But this tells that all the news we've heard since about this absconding matter are all true. One said they are mostly southern Christians, the list agrees.

Again make I ask: did Ogungbemi idowu and uchenna ibigieogu abscond four times that led to sacking them four times as the last part of the list suggests, or is it just the normal police incompetence and docility?

Knowing that this memo was issued on 21st December and the police was still denying this as at 25th December is shameful and cowardly on their part. Let me ask again. Who do they want to give orderly room trial, butterfly wey don turn to arm robber somewhere to survive? Country with more mad citizens than same ones.

Thanks brother.This government is incredible with lying.They must be kick out.They want Christians to go for while northern Muslims are sent for python dance in peaceful regions.

Yuceeluv:
If my husband were amongst them, I would welcome him with the tightest hugs, sweetest kisses, and make sure he eats the best meal of his life...including the one served in the other room.

I'm in the police force,u single?

Yuceeluv:
If my husband were amongst them, I would welcome him with the tightest hugs, sweetest kisses, and make sure he eats the best meal of his life...including the one served in the other room.

And die of hunger. Soldiers and trained police should always be ready to protect the fatherland, that's their calling. If you can't withstand the heat don't stay in the kitchen.....cowards

But they said there is no abscon in the first place