Earlier thread: https://www.nairaland.com/6033378/igp-adamu-illegally-raised-millions

PRESS RELEASE

HOW SAHARA REPORTERS MALICIOUSLY MALIGNED THE NIGERIAN INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE

The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to a misleading report published on the Sahara Reporters online platform on August 03, 2020 under the heading ‘Exclusive: How Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Adamu, Illegally Raised Millions of Naira for Construction of Training School in Nasarawa’. In the report, spurious allegations were made to the effect that the Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu was ‘involved in a multi-billion Naira fraudulent scheme’. The publication which referenced several unnamed and unverifiable sources alleged, essentially, that the IGP ‘used his office to unlawfully compel and in fact threaten Mobile Police Commanders into generating millions of Naira monthly through illegal means for the purpose of establishment of a MOPOL Training School in his home town of Endehu in Nasarawa State’.

2. The Force wishes to state unequivocally that the publication in its entirety is false and baseless. It was published in the tradition of Sahara Reporters to blackmail and impugn the credibility of strategic leaders of the country in an apparent attempt to advance their ignoble and unpatriotic intentions.

3. While being conscious of the need not to glorify the falsehood contained in the reportage, it is considered expedient and in national security interest to put the facts straight. In this regard, it is to be clarified as follows:

i. The establishment of the Police Mobile Training School in Endehu, Nasarawa State, North Central Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria was informed by overriding national security consideration on the need to strengthen the operational capacity of the special forces of the Nigeria Police Force.
ii. Also, the insinuation that the IGP sited the facility ‘in his hometown of Endehu in Nasarawa State’, is also utterly misleading. For the avoidance of doubts, Endehu is not the hometown of IGP Adamu. He is, in the contrary, from Lafia.
iii. The allegations that the IGP used his office to threaten Mobile Police Commanders into generating Millions of naira monthly through illegal means for the establishment of the institution is also totally false. It is on record that the parcel of land where the institution was sited was donated to the Police with the full complement of the Certificate of Occupancy which the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State publicly presented to the Nigeria Police. The acquisition of the land was, therefore, without any financial commitment by the Police.
iv. Furthermore, the construction of the facility was achieved with the support of the Nasarawa State Government and well-meaning corporate bodies within the context of their Corporate Social responsibility (CSR). In all instances, all the support so extended were not in cash but in form of donation of materials. The only involvement of some Squadron Commanders was to ensure the delivery of some of the construction materials so donated by the corporate bodies. Hence, the allegation that the IGP ‘had each Squadron Commander cough out nothing less than N500,000 monthly for the purpose of erecting different structures in the training school’ is a preposterous and feeble attempt to discredit the innovative reasoning that engendered the successful implementation of the critical national security asset that the facility represents.

4. The construction of the project through corporate intervention is a demonstration of the commitment of the Force leadership to meet its obligation to citizens in terms of their safety and security and in furtherance to the Reform agenda of the Nigeria Police Force. It was not established as a personal asset of the IGP. Rather, it is a national security legacy project. It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that corporate organisations and governments at all levels are assisting the police to bridge operational and infrastructural gaps. Dangote Foundation, the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Bankers’ Forum, State Governments, Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), and well-meaning individuals among others have in the past donated fleets of vehicles and have rendered other supports to the Police.

5. The attempt by Sahara Reporters to malign the Force leadership shall not in any manner impact on the firm determination of the Nigeria Police Force to advance its strategic plan and to continue to adopt innovative reasoning in changing the policing narratives in Nigeria towards stabilizing the internal security order. While members of the public are called upon to discountenance the content of the publication in its entirety, it is to be noted that the Nigeria Police Force has instructed its legal team to initiate legal actions against Sahara Reporters to address the defamatory and libellous components of the report.

DCP FRANK MBA
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
FORCE HEADQUARTERS
ABUJA

Nigeria Police Force

Hope they won't place their media on Ban.

Tho i do enjoy their reports cos they do unveiled some deep secrets in Nigeria which the masses are ignorant of.

SR is loosing its credibility

Their cup of tea

No be us go separate una fight. We choose to believe what sounds logical. Don't ask us which one we have decided as more logical between sahara reporters allegations and your rebuttal.

Sowore keeps attracting more trouble he wouldn't be able to deal with.


By the time they get him, he will be shown no mercy!!

SmartProf:
No be us go separate una fight. We choose to believe what sounds logical. Don't ask us which one we have decided as more logical between sahara reporters allegations and your rebuttal.

Make I park here.

The story that IGP collected illegal money to build training school for Nigerian Police sounded childish abnitio. For this country? Who born monkey?

Look, no Nigerian alive today including Yele Sowore as an IGP would use such illegal free money to build school rather than using it to buy property in Nigerian cities and Dubai. Quote me!

What pity??
Ur papa na chief judge??

FlordFlorez:
Sowore keeps attracting more trouble he wouldn't be able to deal with.


When they get him time, I will show him no pity!!

If them arrest Sowore again I pity him

You will see him on Aug 5th

Ok.

SaharaReporters in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent times.
Even writing false news about his brothers in crime!

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.

Elzakzaky:
Stop advertising your ignorance on the internet. Revolution is not the same as a protest.
No government anywhere in the world treats revolution with levity.

We concur!



We Rise!

Ok

I support both sides in this situation.

Sharia reporters need to be closed down. A disgrace of a media house

all these media trial

there are better ways to handle such accusations.

but we would just point fingers insult laughter it off till someone points another finger

Won dem for talk? With the number of roadblocks we have been reading, isn't that enough to investigate further? If he's still building the training facility, what is the source of the funds he is using?

Oya nah

Nzeogwu. Rest on!

Time will tell. Sahara Reporters always do diligent work.

A criminal will never accept he is a criminal. Even if you present video and documentary evidence he/ she must still deny it. A professional criminal will even deny his own shadow.

Never trust any Nigerian office holder

MelesZenawi:
Op na good Samaritan..


He should try and report what is happening in Abia state and leave IGP Adamu alone.


ADAMU no steal reach Abia people.

is this thread talking about Abia

Sahara reporters stock in trade is false news,though PMB and APC used him to come to power



Your home is incomplete without good quality furniture thats why we are here for you

stanliwise:
is this thread talking about Abia

are abia politicians not thieves?