Key Police Officer In Apo Six Killings Promoted To AIG

Danjuma Ibrahim, one of the police officers involved in the killing of six persons in Apo, Abuja, in 2005, has been promoted to the rank of assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG).

Ibrahim and five other police officers had been accused of killing some persons, including five traders, on June 7, 2005, while they were returning from a night party in the Federal Capital Territory.

The Cable reports that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on Monday decorated Ibrahim with the new rank at the force headquarters in Abuja.

He was decorated alongside, Istafanus Shettima, Jimoh Ozi-Obea, Bello Yahaya, Mukaddas Garba, Dasuki Galandanchi, Fave Semali and Sadiq Abubakar.

In 2005, Ibrahim, who was the most senior officer among the accused officers, was said to have ordered the killings.

He was however acquitted alongside two others by a federal high court in Abuja, In November 2017, after pleading not guilty to the charges.

Ibrahim, who was a deputy commissioner of police at the time of his acquittal, was promoted to the rank of commissioner of police.