{"id":20518,"date":"2020-01-25T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=20518"},"modified":"2020-01-25T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:12:32","slug":"ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen","title":{"rendered":"IG directs Oyo CP to take actions over return of sacked LG chairmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has directed the Commissioner of Police in Oyo state, Mr. Shina Olukolu, to take actions to implement the legal opinion of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) on the sacked local government chairmen in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The IG in a letter obtained by DAILY POST on Saturday and addressed to Prince Ayodeji Abass-Aleshiloye, Chairman of the dissolved Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), urged the sacked ALGON Chairman to liaise with the CP to facilitate smooth take over of the Local Government Areas in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The IG letter was signed by the Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector General of Police, DCP Idowu Owohunwa.<\/p>\n<p>The letter entitled \u201cRe: Federal Government Order to Governor Seyi Makinde to Reverse Sack of Local Government\/ Local Council Development Areas Chairmen in Oyo State- Result for Police Protection\u201d is dated 23rd January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The letter reads, \u201cYour letter dated 21st, January, 2020 on the above-underlined subject, refers,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am to inform you that the Inspector-General of Police has directed the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State to initiate appropriate actions in line with the legal opinion of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may accordingly, liaise with him to facilitate. Accept the assurances of the esteemed regards of the Inspector General of Police, please\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the Attorney General of Federation, Abubakar Malami had last week advised the Oyo state government to reinstate democratically elected council chairmen that were sacked and dissolved last year by the State Governor, Mr. Seyi Makinde.<\/p>\n<p>The state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has replied the AGF that he has no business in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Public Relations Officer of the state Police Command, Mr. Olugbenga Fadeyi when contacted said that he can\u2019t speak on the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Fadeyi in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST added that he awaits further directive from the CP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t speak about the letter now until the commissioner say something about it. I can\u2019t speak now. So I await further directive\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has directed the Commissioner of Police in Oyo state, Mr. Shina Olukolu, to take actions to implement the legal opinion of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) on the sacked local government chairmen in the state. The IG in a letter obtained by DAILY POST on Saturday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":20519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[300,1252],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-igp","tag-oyo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IG directs Oyo CP to take actions over return of sacked LG chairmen - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has directed the Commissioner of Police in Oyo state, Mr. Shina Olukolu, to take actions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IG directs Oyo CP to take actions over return of sacked LG chairmen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has directed the Commissioner of Police in Oyo state, Mr. Shina Olukolu, to take actions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-25T19:12:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Acting-Inspector-General-of-Police-IGP-Mr-Mohammed-Adamu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"IG directs Oyo CP to take actions over return of sacked LG chairmen\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-25T19:12:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen\"},\"wordCount\":359,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/Acting-Inspector-General-of-Police-IGP-Mr-Mohammed-Adamu.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"IGP\",\"Oyo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ig-directs-oyo-cp-to-take-actions-over-return-of-sacked-lg-chairmen\",\"name\":\"IG directs Oyo CP to take actions over return of sacked LG chairmen - 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