01/27/19

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Ag. IGP Muhammed Adamu

Inspector-General Muhammed Adamu has retired seven deputy inspectors-general of police who were his seniors, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt from police sources.

The affected officers are Maigari Dikko, the DIG in charge of finance and administration and Habila Joshak, the DIG in charge of operations.

The remaining five DIGs are Emmanuel Inyang, information and communications technology; Agboola Oshodi-Glover, logistics and supply; Mohammed Katsina, research and planning; Sani Mohammed, training and development; and Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah, federal criminal investigation and intelligence.

Their retirement came Sunday evening, and it would be announced formally later, it was learnt. Police spokesperson, Frank Mba’s telephone was switched off at the time of this report.

The seven officers were amongst 15 senior officers PREMIUM TIMES reported were likely to be retired on January 17.

The seven DIGs and eight assistant inspectors-general were identified as having joined the police before Mr Adamu, who was appointed on January 15 after the former IG Ibrahim Idris was retired as he attained 60 years.

The seven police chiefs’ departure was in furtherance of the convention that recommends the retirement of senior police chiefs when an officer junior to them in service or lower in rank is appointed to lead the institution.

When Mr Idris was appointed IG in 2016, more than 20 DIGs and AIGs were compelled to retire from service to enable him constitute his management team.

Mr Adamu has now followed the tradition, which has been criticised as wasteful and demoralising because of huge resources the nation had spent on the vast knowledge the senior officers had acquired over the years.
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The Electricity Power Reform Act (Amendment) Bill 2018 passed by the House of Representatives last Tuesday prohibiting and criminalising estimated billing has proposed a one-year jail term and a fine of N1m for defaulters.

The proposed law, which will be transmitted to the Senate for concurrence, and onward transmission to the President for his assent, also compels all electricity distribution companies to give prepaid meters to applicants within 30 days.

If assented to, the law will bar a Disco from disconnecting a consumer after the 30-day period within which a meter should be installed.

The Majority Leader of the House, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, sponsored the bill in protest against the ‘crazy’ billing of consumers by the Discos.

The lawmaker had stated that estimated billing could only be used in situations where a consumer’s meter could not be accessed by the service provider. He said Discos had however deemed estimated billing to be normal.

He said, “Any regulation that allows estimation of bills when the actual consumption can be ascertained is against natural justice and equity and should not stand.”

The majority leader had also said the bill, when passed into law, would stop estimated billing.
“The bill will ensure that prepaid meters are installed in all houses, so long as the customers apply for the meters,” he had said.

The House passed the bill upon the adoption of the committee report on the proposed law, following a public hearing held on June 5, 2018.

Gbajabiamila had, at the public hearing stated that there was nowhere in the world where electricity customers were billed arbitrarily.

Sections 68 to 72 are some of the amendments to the Principal Act. Section 68 states, “(1) Estimated billing methodology is hereby prohibited in Nigeria.

“(2) Every electricity consumer in Nigeria shall apply to the Electricity Distribution Company carrying out business within his (or her) jurisdiction for a prepaid meter and such consumer shall pay the regulated fee for prepaid meter to be installed in his (or her) premises and the Electricity Distribution Company shall within 30 days or receiving the application and payment install the prepaid meter applied for in the premises of the consumer.

“(3) Customers who elect to buy their prepaid meters through credit advancement metering implementation must state in their applications and such customers must be metered within 30 days of the receipt of their applications.

“(4) All electricity charges or billings to the premises of every consumer shall be based strictly on prepaid metering and no consumer shall be made to pay any bill without a prepaid meter first being installed at the premises of the consumer.”

In the new Section 69, the proposed law stipulates that the Disco serving the consumer, upon connection, must inform the customer in writing on the nature of the meter installed, tariff methodology and all other services available to the customer.

The new Section 70 states that in giving effect to the provisions of the Act, the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, as the regulatory body, must ensure that all licensed Discos comply with the provisions of this Act.
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The Akomadan District Police Command in Ashanti has arrested four men including a Community Policing Assistant (CPA) for forcing three Senior High School students from Akomadan to chew raw chicken. The students were alleged to have been caught stealing the chicken.

The suspects are Prince Adu, 40, a farmer; Peter Owusu Aduomi, 41, CPA; Francis Osei, 31, teacher and Abukari Anaba, 57.

According to the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Godwin Ahianyo, on January 21, 2019, the students, all juveniles, were arrested by the suspects for stealing a fowl.

And as their punishment, they were made to chew the fowl raw and were videoed while chewing the fowl. They were provided drinking water to wash down the bites to ensure they really ate the raw meat.
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There are indications of massive demotion, promotion and retirement in the Nigeria Police in the coming days, The Eagle Online has been told.

There are indications of massive demotion, promotion and retirement in the Nigeria Police in the coming days, The Eagle Online has been told.

The Eagle Online was told that out of the present crop of Deputy Inspectors General of Police, the Acting Inspector General, Mohammed Adamu, may retain just two.

The tradition in the Police had been that once an Assistant Inspector General of Police is appointed as IGP, the DIGs are sacked.

Adamu was an AIG when President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him as IG.

Sources, however, told The Eagle Online that two of the present crop of DIGs may scale the hurdle.

Those that will go, sources said, were accused of having risen “through crooked ways”.

Also scheduled for demotion are some of those promoted in the late hours of the exit of a former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Sir Mike Mbam Okiro, and the former IGP, Ibrahim Idris.

As reported by The Eagle Online at the time, some of those promoted were accused of having paid their way through.

Some of the over 2,000 affected by the promotion then, were said to have paid as much as N2 million to secure the promotion.

A source in the Force Headquarters in Abuja said some of the senior officers in this category have been summoned by the IG and confronted with the allegation last week.

They were said to have been told to expect the outcome of their action any time from now.

A source in the Office of Adamu equally told The Eagle Online that those that have been denied promotion over the years for inability to pay their way through or having godfathers are also scheduled for elevation in the coming daysb.

Sources said the IG plans to intimate the PSC under former IG Musiliu Smith of the need to elevate the policemen.

It was alleged that Idris ran the Force, especially the issue of promotion, with a few selected policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, who was saddled with the posting of policemen, including his superiors.

Some senior policemen told The Eagle Online that they considered Idris’s handling of the Force while he held sway as IG in this manner as an affront.
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