Why IGP Abba was sacked – Okiro

Former Inspector-General of Police and Chairman, Police Service Commission, Mr. Mike Okiro on Tuesday disclosed that the immediate past IGP, Mr. Suleiman Abba was removed by President Jonathan on account of indiscipline that allegedly permeated the rank and file of the police force under his watch.

Okiro made the disclosure while answering questions from the State House correspondents in Abuja after the meeting of the Police Service Commission..

According to the former IGP Okiro, “I may not attempt to answer that question because I’m not part of the Presidency that removed him, so I cannot give adequate answer.

“Though at the meeting there he (Jonathan) tried to explain to members, based on the question raised by one of the governors that Nigerians may want to know why the former IGP was removed.

“The President, in very brief way, said, during the period of the former IGP, a lot of indiscipline was noticed among the rank and file of the Police and as such he felt that a new IG should come and try his luck. That is what he said, though I cannot give details of that”, he said.