The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of
24 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of
Police. The Commission, however, declined the promotion of former acting
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, CP Ibrahim Magu.
The Commission’s Head of Press and Public Relations,
Ikechukwu Ani, made this known in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘PSC Promotes
24 CPs, 35 DCPs, 52 ACPs, 50 CSPs, Drops Ibrahim Magu’.
According to Ani, the decisions were the highpoints of the
Commission’s 12th Plenary Meeting held on Tuesday and Wednesday, which was
presided over by the Commission’s Chairman, Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector
General of Police.
“The Commission declined the promotion of CP Magu pending clearance from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the Office of the Inspector General of Police,” the statement partly read.
Magu, who served as acting chairman of the EFCC from 2015 to
2020, was rejected twice by the Senate.
He was later suspended along with several others for
allegedly mismanaging funds of the commission, an allegation which he
vehemently denied.
The former EFCC boss was probed for over three months by a
judicial panel of inquiry led by a former President of the Court of Appeal,
Justice Ayo Salami.
The panel made several recommendations but the report has
not been made public to date.
The President, Muhammadu Buhari, later in February 2021
named 40-year-old Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new EFCC chairman to replace Magu.
Details later…
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