{"id":14514,"date":"2023-01-19T05:48:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=14514"},"modified":"2023-01-19T05:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:48:13","slug":"buhari-extends-igps-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=14514","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Extends IGP&#8217;s Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Buhari Extends IGP&#8217;s Tenure<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">Zainab Tanimu<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">President Buhari has extended the tenure of the inspector general of police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi announced this to State House Correspondents after the first Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting of 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He stated that the police boss would not be retiring midway into the general elections, stressing that he has already gotten a letter of extension.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dingyad explained that the Police Act 2020 has changed the rules for an IGP\u2019s retirement, adding that the new law makes the tenure of the Police boss a four-year period.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Let me say that by the provision of the Police Act 2020, the IG is now supposed to have a kind of four-year period and Mr. President has already given him a letter of appointment in that regard. I don\u2019t know where you got your record. So the issue<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0of IG going out during this election period does not arise, \u201d the Minister said<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also stated that the FEC approved the draft bill for an Act to establish Nigeria Police Institutions, which he said is to provide legal framework to the existing training institutions across the country and not to build new ones<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The level of corruption within the Nigeria Police he said has drastically reduced.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">President Buhari appointed the then DIG Baba as the acting Inspector General of Police on April 6, 2021.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Police Council confirmed him as the substantive Inspector General of Police on June 2021.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buhari Extends IGP&#8217;s Tenure Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria President Buhari has extended the tenure of the inspector general of police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba. The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi announced this to State House Correspondents after the first Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting of 2023. 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