The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu yesterday said that he is in total control of the affairs of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) contrary to the claim by a retired Army Major-General, Garba Wahab, who claimed that he was not in control of the administration and operations of the Police.
According to a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Frank Mba, Maj-Gen. Wahab spoke “out of ignorance and from a jackboot mentality and on a subject outside his areas of core competence”.
The statement further reads that: “the attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to comments and reactions during an interview session on a television programme of 13th November, where one Major General Garba Wahab (rtd) commented that ‘…rather than improving the improvement (sic) …the IGP is sitting down there with all the paraphernalia of office deprived of actually having control of the Police… he is not in control’.
“The Force wishes to categorically state that the retired General is wrong in his assertion, as IGP Adamu is firmly in control of the administration and operation of the Nigeria Police Force”.
The Force, therefore, enjoined the general public and privileged opinion-moulders not to allow sentiments becloud their sense of judgment but to use opportunities of national platforms to offer constructive criticisms and advocate opinions that would help in improving governance generally and policing in particular in the country, adding that Wahab would do well to fact-check his assumptions before going public.