Speaking on Wednesday with State House Correspondents after the first Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting of 2023, Dingyadi said the Police Act 2020 has changed the rules for an IGP’s retirement.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, has said that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, will not retire midway into the general elections.
Baba will turn 60 on March 1, 2023, the retirement age for police personnel. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him the acting Inspector General of Police on April 6, 2021.
In June of that year, the Police Council confirmed him as the substantive Inspector General of Police.
Speaking on Wednesday with State House Correspondents after the first Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting of 2023, Dingyadi said the Police Act 2020 has changed the rules for an IGP’s retirement.
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“I don’t know where you got your record but let me say that by the provision of the Police Act 2020, the IG is now supposed to have a kind of four-year period and Mr. President has already given him a letter of appointment in that regard. So the issue of IG going out during this election period does not arise,” he said.
Dingyadi also disclosed that FEC approved the draft bill for an Act to establish Nigeria Police Institutions, which he said is to provide legal backing to the existing training institutions across the country and not to build new ones.
He also affirmed that the level of corruption within the Nigeria Police has drastically reduced.
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