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The Board of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, has condoled with Katsina State Government over the demise of the former Inspector-General of Police and Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie.
Coomassie died on Thursday in Katsina after a protracted illness at the age of 76.
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said that the late Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie’s contributions to the fight against insecurity in the country could not be quantified.
Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja, said Buhari was speaking at the funeral of the former IGP in Katsina on Friday.
The remains of the former Inspector-General of Police and Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, was buried in Rimin-Badawa cemetery, Katsina on Friday.
Former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Orji Kalu, has described the demise of former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, as a big loss to the nation.
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has commiserated with the family of late Ibrahim Coomassie, a former Inspector-General of Police.
Alhaji Dahiru Coomassie, a younger brother to the deceased, confirmed the death on Thursday in Katsina.
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the family, government and people of Katsina State over the demise of his classmate and former Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Coomassie.
The Katsina Emirate Council has expressed shock over the death of Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, the Chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum.
“A case in point is the incessant clashes between herdsmen and farmers that in recent times have assumed a most destabilising dimension which if not managed properly could plunge the nation, particularly the North, into internecine conflicts the likes of which has never been seen before.’’