Ex-IGP Idris Faces Probe Over N311m Election Fund

Mohammed Adamu, acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), was
said to have, on Thursday, asked members of an election committee
set up by immediate past IGP Ibrahim Idris to explain how about
N311.640 million given to the committee was disbursed, Daily
Independent reports

Force Headquarters sources hinted that some of the committee
members reported and were interrogated, but were allowed go back to
their various commands.

The source could not, however, disclose the number of those who
reported and their ranks.

The IGP was said to have directed DIG (R&P) Mohammed Katsina
to interrogate them.

But Daily Independent reliably learnt that the chairman of the
committee, a Commissioner of Police, was absent, because President
Buhari was visiting his zone. The details of the interrogation were
not immediately known.

Our Investigations revealed that the former IGP had written to
President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2018, requesting for the
money.

Dependable sources disclosed that a certain amount was
eventually released to the committee.

Investigations further revealed that Idris coded the committee
as ‘Pre-election Threat Analysis & Security Measures’.

The committee was headed by a Commissioner of Police (CP) and
with two other CPs, as well as three Deputy Commissioners of Police
(DCPs), including the DCP in charge of Transport as members.

According to findings, others in the committee were former Force
Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, five Assistant
Commissioners of Police (ACPs), Assistant Superintendent of Police
(ASPs), and DSPs, as well as Inspectors and Sergeants.

“They were about 200 in number,” a source at Force Headquarters
disclosed.

Investigations further revealed that Idris had informed the
presidency that the committee would be spread to the six
geo-political zones and secretly comb the zones of any threat to
peaceful elections.

Our source also hinted that the former IGP stated in the letter
that, “the committee will monitor the six geo-political zones for
30 days before the elections begin.”

That implied that the committee was supposed to start the
monitoring exercise on December 15, 2018 and round off on January
15, 2019.

However, a source close to the committee hinted that some
members of the committee in the South-East geopolitical zone were
still in operation as at Wednesday, January 23, 2019.

Investigations also revealed that Idris, in the letter to the
president, budgeted N24 million to fuel 80 vehicles that were
supposed to cover the six geopolitical zones for 30 days, another
N70 million was budgeted to service some equipment. Similarly, N6
million was budgeted for the media for the six geopolitical
zones.

According to our source, senior officers were to get N500, 000
as allowance for the 30 days, but a member of the committee
disclosed in confidence that CPs got N420, 000 while rank/file got
N5,000 each for 30 days.

Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Assistant Commissioner of
Police (ACP) Frank Mba, when contacted on phone, said he could not
“confirm the veracity of the report,” adding, “I am yet to be
briefed on it.”