IG redeploys police anti-graft unit officers, withdraws vehicles

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has allegedly redeployed several officers attached to the anti-corruption unit of the force.

Investigations revealed that the firearms and ammunition being used by the squad had also been withdrawn.

Our correspondent learnt that the commissioner in charge of the squad, David Akinremi, had written a series of memos to the IG pleading with him to rejuvenate the unit with more men and materials, but sources said Adamu had yet to respond to the request.revealed that the IG on assumption of office changed the operational arrangement by placing the X-Squad section in the State Criminal Investigation Department under the control of the state CPs.

It read in part, “There is a need for the Inspector-General of Police to rejuvenate the X-Squad in response to increasing public outcry over reports of police brutality, criminal use of force and abuse of police powers by the police attached to special operations groups involved in special security arrangements.“The recent re-organisation all but dissolved the X-Squad Section.

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