Tinubu asked to sack IGP

President Bola Tinubu has been called upon to sack Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, following Friday’s dismissal of the nation’s service chiefs.

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), hinged the call on what it described as incompetence on the part of the IGP.

The group in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubbiko, expressed shock that the “non-performing” IGP was retained even when the internal security architecture of the country has virtually collapsed and different armed non-state actors  continue to unleash mayhem and violence on a massive scale.
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On the appointment of new service chiefs, HURIWA said the new military bosses  to a good extent reflected the federal character principles of the Nigerian constitution.

The group, however, blasted the President for allegedly allowing ethnic sentiments to becloud his decision by failing to relieve Egbetokun of his position so as to appoint a younger and much more competent officer as a replacement.

“If there is any of the security heads who should be booted out with immediate effect, the Inspector-General of Police Mr. Kayode Egbetokun ranks highest because the Nigeria Police Force under his watch have significantly become weaker operationally just as the intelligence capacity of the NPF has evaporated into thin air because the hierarchy of the police lacks what it takes to adequately police all nooks and crannies of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The only reason the President left the IGP is (allegedly) because he is a kinsman of the president and has been his chief security officer for 8 years in Lagos when the current president was the governor of Lagos state.”