Ebun Francis || Isa Misau, the Senator representing Bauchi central in the national assembly on Friday accused the Inspector General Police, Ibrahim Idris of collecting between N10 and N15m bribes from commissioners of police for lucrative postings in choice institutions.
The APC senator was responding to the accusation that he was out to smear the image of the force by police authorities.
At a press conference in Abuja, Misau alleged that the money the commissioners paid to the IG was not receipted and unaccounted for.
According to Misau, “While the police service commission could not deny the bribery allegation, information reaching me indicate that even transfers of commissioners of police, state mobile commanders, and SPU commanders are also allegedly riddled with corruption.”
“Some commissioners of police and state Mobile Commanders pay between N10 million to N15 million to get postings.
“There is also the allegation that more than 50,000 policemen are attached to oil companies, banks and private individuals with payments made to the police authorities. These people pay as much as N10bn monthly. They are however unaccounted for.
“Policemen are being attached to criminals who now go around blaring siren while doing all sorts of dubious activities.”
The Senator carpeted both the IG and Mike Okiro, chairman of the police service commission, insisting they are not fit to run the police force.
“The incumbent IGP, based on available records and series of petitions and reports from insiders, has no capacity to run the police just like the chairman of the police service commission, IGP Mike Okiro, who also lacks similar capacity.
“On nepotism, the IGP is scoring high marks by making almost half of the mobile commanders in the country, people of his Nupe extraction and on favouritism, appointing CP Moses Jitoboh an officer who had been out of field of operational service to that of political service for close to 20 years, as Adamawa state police commissioner.”
He also showed journalists a letter in which the police approved his retirement from the force after “10 years of meritorious service.”
When contacted the force public relations officer, Jimoh Moshood denied the allegation.