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Police To Initiate Legal Actions Against Sahara Reporters Over ‘False’ Publication Against the IGP

The Nigerian Police has denied the publication by Sahara reporters alleging that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammmed Adamu threatened Mobile Police Commanders to generate millions of Naira through unlawful means so that a Mopol Training School “in his hometown of Endehu Nasarawa State” can be established.

Force Public Relations Officer, DCP frank Mba, explained in a statement that the report of Sahara reporters is misleading and does not hold water, saying, it has instructed its legal team to initiate legal actions against Sahara Reporters to address the publication considered as defamatory and libelous.

DCP Frank Mba Force Public Relations Officer

The publication which referenced several unnamed and unverifiable sources alleged, essentially, that the IGP ‘used his office to unlawfully compel and in fact threaten Mobile Police Commanders into generating millions of Naira monthly through illegal means for the purpose of establishment of a MOPOL Training School in his home town of Endehu in Nasarawa State. The Force wishes to state unequivocally that the publication in its entirety is false and baseless. It was published in the tradition of Sahara Reporters to blackmail and impugn the credibility of strategic leaders of the country in an apparent attempt to advance their ignoble and unpatriotic intentions”.  

Mba noted, that it is considered expedient and in national security interest to put the facts straight as the publication was out to defame and malign the reputation of the Police Chief. He listed the following in defence of the Police authorities.
“The establishment of the Police Mobile Training School in Endehu, Nasarawa State, North Central Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria was informed by overriding national security consideration on the need to strengthen the operational capacity of the special forces of the Nigeria Police Force.

 Also, the insinuation that the IGP sited the facility ‘in his hometown of Endehu in Nasarawa State’, is also utterly misleading. For the avoidance of doubts, Endehu is not the hometown of IGP Adamu. He is, in the contrary, from Lafia”. Police spokesman said

The Police said, that the parcel of land where the institution was sited, was donated to the Police with the full complement of the Certificate of Occupancy which the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State publicly presented to the Nigeria Police saying the acquisition of the land was, therefore, without any financial commitment by the Police.
Frank Mba explained that the construction of the facility was achieved with the support of the Nasarawa State Government and well-meaning corporate bodies within the context of their Corporate Social responsibility (CSR). In all instances, all the support so far extended were not in cash but in form of donation of materials. The only involvement of some Squadron Commanders was to ensure the delivery of some of the construction materials so donated by the corporate bodies. Hence, the allegation that the IGP ‘had each Squadron Commander cough out nothing less than N500,000 monthly for the purpose of erecting different structures in the training school’ is a preposterous and feeble attempt to discredit the innovative reasoning that engendered the successful implementation of the critical national security asset that the facility represents.

Mohammed Adamu Inspector General of Police

“The construction of the project through corporate intervention is a demonstration of the commitment of the Force leadership to meet its obligation to citizens in terms of their safety and security and in furtherance to the Reform agenda of the Nigeria Police Force. It was not established as a personal asset of the IGP. Rather, it is a national security legacy project. It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that corporate organisations and governments at all levels are assisting the police to bridge operational and infrastructural gaps. Dangote Foundation, the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Bankers’ Forum, State Governments, Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), and well-meaning individuals among others have in the past donated fleets of vehicles and have rendered other supports to the Police”.
Spokesperson of the Force says the attempt by Sahara Reporters to malign the police leadership shall not in any manner impact the firm determination of the Nigeria Police Force to advance its strategic plan and to continue to adopt innovative reasoning in changing the policing narratives in Nigeria towards stabilizing the internal security order
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