Report On IGP Entirely False, Baseless – Police

The Nigerian Police Force on Tuesday condemned a report
accusing the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, of
illegal activity.

On Monday, an online publication, Sahara Reporters, published a
report with the heading: ‘Exclusive: How Nigeria’s
Inspector-General of Police, Adamu, Illegally Raised Millions of
Naira for Construction of Training School in Nasarawa’.

In a statement, police spokesman, Frank Mba said the report 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 said the training school in Nasarawa had been built with the
support of the State Government and several corporate partners.

“Also, the insinuation that the IGP sited the facility ‘in his
hometown of Endehu in Nasarawa State’, is also utterly misleading,”
Mba said.

“For the avoidance of doubts, Endehu is not the hometown of IGP
Adamu. He is, on the contrary, from Lafia.”

Mba added that the police have “instructed its legal team to
initiate legal actions against” the online publication over what it
sees as “the defamatory and libelous components of the report.”

Below is the full police statement:

PRESS RELEASE

HOW SAHARA REPORTERS MALICIOUSLY MALIGNED THE NIGERIAN INSPECTOR
GENERAL OF POLICE

The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to a
misleading report published on the Sahara Reporters online platform
on August 03, 2020 under the heading ‘Exclusive: How Nigeria’s
Inspector-General of Police, Adamu, Illegally Raised Millions of
Naira for Construction of Training School in Nasarawa’. In the
report, spurious allegations were made to the effect that the
Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu was ‘involved in a
multi-billion Naira fraudulent scheme’. 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’.

2. 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.

3. While being conscious of the need not to glorify the
falsehood contained in the reportage, it is considered expedient
and in national security interest to put the facts straight. In
this regard, it is to be clarified as follows:

i. 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. ii. 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.
iii. The allegations that the IGP used his office to threaten
Mobile Police Commanders into generating Millions of naira monthly
through illegal means for the establishment of the institution is
also totally false. It is on record 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. The acquisition of the land was, therefore, without any
financial commitment by the Police. iv. Furthermore, 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 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.

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4. 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.

5. The attempt by Sahara Reporters to malign the Force
leadership shall not in any manner impact on 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. While members of the public are called upon to
discountenance the content of the publication in its entirety, it
is to be noted that the Nigeria Police Force has instructed its
legal team to initiate legal actions against Sahara Reporters to
address the defamatory and libellous components of the report.

DCP FRANK MBA FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER FORCE HEADQUARTERS
ABUJA

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