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Police Fee Promotes Ex-Chairman Of Anti-graft Company, Magu, Seven Others To AIG
The Police Service Fee has promoted the previous performing Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, to the rank of an Assistant Inspector Common of Police (AIG).
Magu, who served as performing chairman of the EFCC from 2015 to 2020, was rejected twice by the Senate.
He was later suspended together with a number of others in July 2020 for allegedly mismanaging funds of the fee, an allegation which he vehemently denied.
The previous EFCC boss was probed for over three months by a judicial panel of inquiry led by a former President of the Court docket of Attraction, Justice Ayo Salami.
The panel made a number of suggestions however the report has not been made public so far.
The President later in February 2021 named Abdulrasheed Bawa as the brand new EFCC chairman to exchange Magu.
In July 2021, the Police Service Fee authorised the promotion of 24 Commissioners of Police to the following rank of Assistant Inspectors Common of Police however an announcement by the Fee’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, stated that “the Fee declined the promotion of CP Magu pending clearance from the workplace of the Legal professional Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the Workplace of the Inspector Common of Police.”
Nonetheless, within the PSC in assertion issued by its Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, stated Magu was promoted to AIG throughout Fee’s fifteenth Plenary Assembly on Friday Could 13, 2022 in Abuja.
Ani additionally stated that PSC through the assembly confirmed the performing DIG John Ogbonnaya Amadi as a substantive Deputy Inspector Common of Police, and equally authorised the appointment of Zama Bala Senchi as a Deputy Inspector Common of Police and promoted eight Commissioners of Police to Assistant Inspectors Common of Police which included Magu.
The assertion was titled “PSC confirms DIG Amadi, appoints Bala Senchi DIG, promotes Magu, Ayim, Kamaladeen, 5 others AIG – Jesubiyi, Olajide, Okoro, Oluwarotimi, Yakubu, Kolo Yusufu, 17 others now CPs”.
