By Olusegun Lawrence ABUJA – Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, requested and got two vehicles from the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Senator Isah Misau, representing Bauchi Central, told a Senate Committee on Wednesday.
Misau who appeared before the Senate Ad hoc Committee investigating allegations of corruption levelled against the Inspector General, said the request was made by Mrs Buhari through her Aide de Camp, ADC.
The senator however said rather than delivering a Sienna and Hiace that the First Lady requested for, the IGP bought and delivered two Prado SUVs to Mrs Buhari through the ADC.
Misau told the committee, “The Inspector- General of Police gave the First Lady, wife of the President two Jeeps and this came through a letter from the ADC of the First Lady who requested on her behalf that she needed a Sienna and Hiace for personal use, but she was given the two jeeps for her private use.”
Also, the embattled senator accused the IGP of falsifying his retirement date, saying the date was doctored from 3rd January to 15th January, 2019.
Futther more, Senator Misau, accused the IGP Idris of employing four civilians in his office who are receiving the salary of the rank of Assistant Inspector- General of Police, AIG.
In another revelation, he told the committee that the IGP engaged the services of a retired Police officer to handle investigation contrary to the code and Act establishing the Police force.
According to the Senator, all investigative cases were supposed to be under the Deputy Inspector- General of Police , DIG in Area 10, Garki, Abuja and not a retired officer.
He spoke further, “Sometime in July 2017, I was in the office of Senator Baba Kaka, Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business when a Daily Trust Reporter sought my views on the information that policemen pay as much as N500,000 for Special Promotion.
“To verify this information, I called some serving police officers who confirmed to the three of us that the information was not only true, but that the amounts paid are up to N2,500,000, in addition to other information.
“I hereby forward for your consideration, the detailed terms of allegation against the Police, the Inspector General of Police, 1GP and the Police Service Commission:
Deployment of Policemen to Private Organisation – between 50,000 to 100,000 policemen are routinely deployed by the Police to oil companies, oil servicing companies, banks, oil marketers, and private individuals etc, with regular payments made to the police. While these monies are estimated to run into billions monthly, they are however, unaccounted for.
“Today, the situation is so bad that businessmen with dubious characters and suspicious businesses now go about with full detachment of policemen and some with full convoy and blasting siren, especially in Lagos, Port Harcourt and other major cities in the country, thereby worsening the country’s policing ratio of 1 policeman to about 800 citizens as against the UN recommended ratio of 1 policeman to 400 citizens.
“Special Promotion Racketeering by the IGP and the Police Service Commission: The Police Service Commission whose main function is to recruit, train, discipline, promote and retire members of the Force, appear to have left its core mandate to indulge almost exclusively in promotion racketeering.
When the IGP was’ appointed, 23 AIGs and above were compulsorily retired to enable him discharge his duty, showing clearly that special promotion is injustice, because it is an attempt to put junior officers above their seniors.”
