Just six days before the presidential and national assembly elections in Nigeria, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, suspended the redeployment of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs), and Commissioners of Police for election duties, according to reports.
This decision was made in order to ensure that officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) remain impartial during the election period.
It should be noted that on February 7th, 2023, the NPF had previously redeployed some DIGs, AIGs, and CPs as part of their election security strategies.
Issued late on Friday via a police wireless message, DTO: 171830/02/2023, the signal was titled: “Posting senior officers for 2023 general elections duty.”
The signal states, “INGENPOL directs that all officers deployed for election duties suspend movement to areas of deployment and await further directive. Ensure strict compliance.”
According to a senior police officer who confirmed the message to the platform, says no reason was provided for the suspension.
He said, “The signal was released on Friday, but I don’t know why it was suspended.”
The suspension has been attributed by a prominent source to the conflict between the IGP and the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, regarding the composition of the inter-agency consultative committee on election security.
The source said; “when the committee was constituted, the INEC chairman was named as the chairman while the NSA serves as the co-chairman. This did not go down well with the IGP, who believes he should be the co-chairman and not the NSA.”
But a top INEC official punctured the claims, saying ”the IGP has never been named as co-chairman of the committee. Check the records of last year’s election, it was the NSA.”
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