Mr Abubakar Adamu, however, cleared the air on the matter in an interview he granted a media house in the buildup to the 2015 general elections. In his words “ the false accusation against me of murder is just to tarnish my reputation”
Born Abubakar Adamu Mohammed on November 9, 1961 in Nassarawa; but fondly called “Lafia”- the capital of Nassarawa state in the North Central geopolitical zone- by his intimate friends. He has a bachelor degree in geography and enlisted in the Nigeria Police Force in 1986. He rose through the ranks of the Police Force and became the Deputy Commissioner of Police(DCP) in Ekiti State.
In 2014 he moved a rung higher on the professional ladder of the Police Force and became the Enugu State Commissioner of Police. He assumed the exalted office in the one of the biggest cities in the south-east at a time when kidnapping and other heinous crimes were rife. However, through the strategy of collaboration and Neighbourhood watch he was able to, to a very large extent, stem the tide of kidnapping and other dastardly acts in the state.
However, what would have been record-making and scandal-free tenure as a commissioner in the state was marred by the grisly murder of a boy, named Chinedu Nnaji by his men. The killing occured as a consequence of a land dispute between the Umuneshi and Umunewu-Ukwu communities of the state. Chinedu’s death led to a legal tussle in which “Lafia” and his men were alleged to have been paid by prominent and influential sons of the rival community in the land dispute to pervert the course of justice. The rival community felt that Adamu and his men deliberately released the suspects in their nest. Mr Abubakar Adamu, however, cleared the air on the matter in an interview he granted a media house in the buildup to the 2015 general elections. In his words “ the false accusation against me of murder is just to tarnish my reputation”
As if that was not enough, his name was also mentioned in the face-off between the then outgoing Governor Sullivan Chime and the faction of 15 lawmakers led by speaker, Honourable Eugene Odo. Hon. Odo alleged that the governor was using the Commissioner of Police against him. The Honourable speaker believed Adamu, on the orders of Governor Chime, was responsible for the withdrawal of security personnel attached him.
Adamu Abubakar was at one time a director of peacekeeping operations. After the successful completion of his course at the National Institute of police and strategic studies, Kuru, Jos he was made the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 5 Benin. The zone 5 comprises Bayelsa, Delta and Edo states. He served in the Interpol Headquarters in Lyon, France as a specialized officer in Economic and Financial Crime directorate where he rose to become the first black African to be the assistant director in the Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. He later became the vice-president of Interpol.
He was awarded the most outstanding community policing command/commissioner of police in Dubai in 2014.