Why’s IGP Idris Crying Foul? My Predecessors Carted Away 22 Vehicles – Arase
Ex-Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, has told his successor, Ibrahim Idris, to stop crying foul over 24 police vehicles the former allegedly left with while retiring from office.
This, Arase said, in a letter dated December 1, 2016, and addressed to the incumbent IGP, Idris.
Arase, in his letter reminded Idris that while he was in office, he ensured that Force Order 295 was implemented so as to ‘gag’ subsequent IGs from ridiculing their predecessors.
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The ex-IGP further noted that in compliance with the Force Order 295, he desisted from ridiculing the last two IGs before him, Mohammed Abubakar and Suleiman Abba, even though they allegedly left with 13 and 9 police vehicles respectively while leaving office.
“I expect that former occupants of the office of the Inspector-General of Police should not be demeaned. This explains why Force Order 295 was emplaced by the force management under my leadership as acknowledged in your letter in reference,” Arase said.
“In spite of the emplacement of this order and despite the fact that my two immediate predecessors left office with 13 and nine vehicles of different makes and models respectively, I never pressurised either of them to return any of such vehicles neither did I engage in any act that was capable of bringing them to ridicule as being done to me of late by a force I dedicated my life to serving up to the highest level.
“Rather, it is on record that I went the extra mile to source for funds and initiated actions towards purchasing a brand new bulletproof jeep for my immediate predecessor, even after his retirement from service. This was done notwithstanding the fact that I inherited and had to manage a huge debt profile of about N28bn, which limited the financial base of the force at the time,” he said.
