IG Egbetokun orders probe of Police cadet who d!ed of st@rvation, sets up seven man panel

Olukayode Egbetokun, the acting Inspector-General of Police, has instituted a seven-man Panel of Inquiry, headed by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Abiodun Alabi, with a mandate to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of one police cadet, Sulaiman Jika at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, freshreporters reports.

Other members of the panel include the Assistant Inspector-General, Training and Development, Oyeyemi Oyediran; Force Medical Officer, CP Garba Nzukwen; CP Homicide FCID, Fom-Pam Joseph, CP Training POLAC, CP Patrick Edung; a representative of the CP Legal as the secretary, and the Principal Staff Officer II to the IG, ACP Idris Abubakar.

Egbetokun also directs the panel to furnish his office with a comprehensive report detailing its findings and recommendations within four days; while extending his heartfelt condolences and commiserations to Jika’s family, relations, and the academy community, and assuring that he was deeply empathetic to their pains and loss; and that the Force would do the needful to ensure justice is done in the case.

It could be recalled that One A. S Jika, Identified 100-level course 9 police cadet, di£d of st@rvation at the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil.

According to reports gathered which freshreporters media had earlier stated , JIka di£d on Saturday, 2nd of September 2023, after allegedly being continuously st@rved and maln%urished for over two weeks.

Sources revealed how cadets have accused the academy’s Commandant, Assistant Inspector-General Sadiq Abubakar, of highhandedness and financial mismanagement related to the feeding allowance designated for the students.

Jika, a student from Adamawa State enrolled in the Department of Computer Science, coll@psed inside a restroom during the early hours of Saturday.

One anonymous cadet who spoke on concern revealed that the victim was urgently rushed to the academy’s clinic after his coll@pse and was confirmed dead.

He said,

“He was left untreated because there were no dr¥gs and no medical officer to attend to him in the unconducive environment before he gave up and di£d,” the source added.

Another cadet, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “Since the new commandant assumed office, they’ve been providing very bad and inadequate food for us. The boy who di£d was not even 20 years old.

The boy wouldn’t have di£d if they’d attended to him. The commandant also ordered the closure of the market and laundry and approved undeserved training exercises during lecture hours.

Cadets coll@pse daily here during training due to fatigue, because either they’re st@rved, maln%urished, or both.

We’re usually thr£atened by the commandant and forced to engage in unwarranted training exercises. Also, many cadets have been dismissed on the basis that they fell sick; that’s why many are trying to manage themselves to avoid expulsion from the academy.” [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>