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Inspector General of Police, Ehindero to go soon!

October 27, 2006
If feelers from the presidency is anything to go by, the current Inspector General of Police of Nigeria, Mr. Sunday Ehindero will soon embark on "pre-retirement" leave according to Saharareporters sources at the presidency. The IGP is currently attending a meeting in New York at the headquarters of the United Nations as part of the committee handling the hand over of Bakassi to Cameroon.We could not reach him for comments at the time of publication.

"The sins of the IG are legendary, he has been ineffective against crime and also knowingly allowed political assasins and armed robbers to ride-roughshod on Nigerians" said an inside source. Part of Ehindero's sins stems from a security report prepared by the State Security Service (SSS) in which the IG was accused of ignoring the existence of killer squads in most states of Nigeria. Recently, his handling of the crisis in Ekiti State was said to be contrary to the desire of President Obasanjo who would have wished that the IGP acted faster in dismantling Fayose in Ekiti State a situation would have allowed Mrs. Olujimi to take over legitimately before things went out of hand. Ekiti State is currently under a state of emergency declared by president Obasanjo. The national assembly approved the imposition of a state of assembly after a contentious long meeting in Abuja, however, the Supreme Court is yet to rule of the constitutional legitimacy of the presidential declaration. Some sources close to Ayo Fayose hints that they may withdraw the case at the Supremem Court before a date is fixed for hearing.

The IG refused to act as directed by the president because of his special loyalty to fugitive Governor Fayose, he delibaerately let him slip out of the government house in Ado Ekiti claiming that he asked to be allowed to go to a night vigil without his usual retinue of police aides, Fayose never came back to the government house and has since disappeared.


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