When Danjuma and Mohammed executed their counter-coup, the most senior Northern officer was a certain Jack Gowon. Onovo faulted the entire exercise, the largest mass retirement of senior police officers in Nigeria’s history, saying that to just retire Deputy Inspectors General of Police and Assistant Inspectors General in one fell swoop amounted to a colossal waste of valuable policing experience. When we joined this job, no one told us we could be sent away by mere whims and caprices of politicians. On April 23 this year, the Punch newspaper ran an editorial highlighting how extortion by police officers has gone up, drastically, under Idris’ watch. Then there is SARS…The habitual occurrence of the forceful retirement of officer of the Nigerian Police Force is an unjust practice detrimental to the force.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2018 03:56 UTC