IGP gets N120bn annually from firms, VIPs –Senator Misau

The senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Isah Misau, took swipe at the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, alleging that Idris collected about N120bn annually as payment for special security services rendered by the police to corporate organisations and very important personalities.

He, however, added that over 50,000 personnel involved in such act had not been benefitting from the money. Misau, who is a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, had also alleged that the special promotion of officers by the force was fraught with corruption, an allegation the IGP subsequently set a panel to investigate.

But in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents on Thursday evening, the senator said he would not honour the invitation of the IGP’s probe panel because the police could not be a judge in a case involving them. He said the Department of State Services or the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should be given the task of investigating his claims.

UCJ, UNILORIN.