{"id":32538,"date":"2020-11-17T21:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32538"},"modified":"2020-11-17T21:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:19:30","slug":"im-in-firm-control-of-nigeria-police-force-igp-adamu-replies-army-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-in-firm-control-of-nigeria-police-force-igp-adamu-replies-army-general","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m in firm control of Nigeria Police Force \u2013 IGP, Adamu replies Army General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">\u0627\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0631\u0633<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has declared that he\u2019s in control of the police.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu said he\u2019s in control of the activities and modus operandi of the police force.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP made the declaration in response to an accusation by a retired Army General, Garba Wahab that he\u2019s not in control of the Force.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this in a statement signed by the Spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the retired General spoke out of ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement: \u201cThe attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to comments and reactions during an interview session on Channels TV Sunrise Daily program of 13th November, 2020 where one Major General Garba Wahab (rtd) commented that \u201c\u2026rather than improving the improvement (sic) \u2026the IGP is sitting down there with all the paraphernalia of office deprived of actually having control of police\u2026 he is not in control\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Force wishes to categorically state that the Rtd Major General is wrong in his assertion as IGP Adamu is firmly in control of the administration and operation of the Nigeria Police Force. It notes that the comments by Rtd Major General Garba Wahab shows that he spoke purely out of ignorance and from a jackboot mentality that lacks proper understanding of democratic policing culture, rooted in the Rule of Law. It reiterates that the retired Officer clearly spoke on a subject outside his areas of core competence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is noteworthy that since his assumption of office as the 20th indigenous Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni, a global policing icon, has in the past twenty-three months of his leadership of the Force, shown sterling qualities in what the operational\/administrative command and control of the Force should be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0627\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0631\u0633 &#8211; Nigeria. The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has declared that he\u2019s in control of the police. Adamu said he\u2019s in control of the activities and modus operandi of the police force. The IGP made the declaration in response to an accusation by a retired Army General, Garba Wahab that he\u2019s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1282,1570,1574,300,254,1281],"class_list":["post-32538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-adamu","tag-africa-press","tag-army-general","tag-igp","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-police-force"],"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>I\u2019m in firm control of Nigeria Police Force \u2013 IGP, Adamu replies Army General - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/policy\/im-in-firm-control-of-nigeria-police-force-igp-adamu-replies-army-general\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I\u2019m in firm control of Nigeria Police Force \u2013 IGP, Adamu replies Army General\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u0627\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0631\u0633 &#8211; Nigeria. 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