Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar
The Police Service Commission has dismissed an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Fausat Oduwole for extorting N21.6m from police sergeants who wrote promotion examinations in one of the police colleges in the country.
Oduwole, who was dismissed by the commission at its 35th plenary meeting in Abuja on April 3,2013 was found to have collected the illegal levy from the police officers to enable them to get promotion.
The commission’s axe also fell on Chief Superintendent of Police, Olusegun Fabunmi, who shot dead one Ademola Aderinto at Yaya Abatan Street,Ogba, Lagos during the fuel subsidy protest in January 2012.
Fabunmi, the Divisional Police Officer, Pen Cinema,’ Police Division was dismissed from the Force for acts unbecoming of a senior police officer.
The former DPO is being prosecuted for murder by the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender at a Lagos High Court.
Other officers that were sacked by the PSC commissioners whose tenure ended on April 11, included a Superintendent, an Assistant Superintendent, and a Deputy Superintendent of Police for acts unbecoming of senior police officers.
Chief Information Officer of the PSC, Ferdinand Ekpe, confirmed to our correspondent on Wednesday that Oduwole and Fabunmi were among the officers that were sanctioned by the commission.
Meanwhile, there were indications on Wednesday that the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has opposed request by the Bayelsa State Police Command to conduct a mass burial for the 12 policemen killed by gunmen in the state two weeks ago.
Our correspondent gathered that some senior police officers in the command had advised that the policemen should be given a mass burial since their remains were burnt beyond recognition.
But Abubakar was said to have kicked against the idea, insisting that a medical examination must be conducted on the mutilated bodies to ascertain their identities.
A senior police officer told our correspondent that the IG had already sent a team of qualified pathologists to conduct the examination.
The officer, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, said the medical team was headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police.
“The IG has ordered medical investigations to know the identities of persons killed by the gunmen. The IG is against burying them in a mass grave despite the fact that their bodies were burnt beyond recognition,” the source said.
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Alex Akhigbe, said the command had insisted that the victims deserved a befitting burial.
Akhigbe in a telephone interview with our correspondent, said, “I am in Uyo for a programme. But before I left arrangements were on top gear to receive the pathologists. I don’t know whether they have come.”
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