Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmad Coomasie, a former Inspector General of Police, is also the Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).In this interview, he narrates the story of the return of power to the North and the role his group, among others, played in stopping President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid, thereby sending him from the Presidential Villa back to his Bayelsa village, Otuoke.
Coomasie faults the sacking of the immediate past IGP, Suleiman Abba. He also speaks on how former President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed a ‘terminally ill’ Umaru Yar’Adua as president against advice.
By Bilesanmi Olalekan
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, objected to the manner the Federal Government sacked the immediate past Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba. Why?
You have come, as usual, in your subjective manner of asking question. You said the man was sacked. If he was sacked, it portrayed negativity. Having said that, our concern in ACF is that we want to know what he did to merit the sack. Nobody has said anything about that and you are asking me why are we raising objection to his sack? I told a television station in Kaduna that it was abnormal. Why he alone and what has he done? If he has done anything wrong, we need to be told, the country has the right to know what he has done. Nobody has said anything and why at this time? Did you are preparing for hand over to another administration? Did the out-going president take him into confidence before the sack? Was due process followed? Was he asked to explain his conduct? Or they just announced that he was sacked? Sack means removal for misconduct. Was. If he did something wrong, of course, he should be sacked. We are used to regime; when a government is changed, everybody goes with the out going-government, nobody raises eye-brow, but this person was picked and sacked. Why was he sacked? He is not due for retirement yet. Tell us what he has done to warrant being sacked.
Some adduced the sack to political reasons?
Are they right? Have they evidence to prove it? The simplest thing is for the government to tell us what Suleiman has done for him to be sacked or compulsory retired.
But in all previous actions of the Federal Government, it never explained why it sacked any of the I.Gs?
They do. Things come out. Circumstance dictates such. But in this, there was nothing outward to suggest that there was something wrong with this Inspector General of Police. This is a man the American government praised for his role in the conduct of the general elections? And this is the man you just sacked without any reason.
So the ACF is against the sack?
No, we are not against the sack, we only want to know why he was removed.
What kind of person is Suleiman Abba, you knew him while you were in service?
Yes, I knew him as a young officer. When I left the police, he was ADC to the First Lady. But I knew his progress till he became a lawyer. And I know he has been working very well. But he has been removed.Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmad Coomasie, a former Inspector General of Police, is also the Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).
In this interview, he narrates the story of the return of power to the North and the role his group, among others, played in stopping President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid, thereby sending him from the Presidential Villa back to his Bayelsa village, Otuoke.
Coomasie faults the sacking of the immediate past IGP, Suleiman Abba. He also speaks on how former President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed a ‘terminally ill’ Umaru Yar’Adua as president against advice.
By Bilesanmi Olalekan
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, objected to the manner the Federal Government sacked the immediate past Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba. Why?
You have come, as usual, in your subjective manner of asking question. You said the man was sacked. If he was sacked, it portrayed negativity. Having said that, our concern in ACF is that we want to know what he did to merit the sack. Nobody has said anything about that and you are asking me why are we raising objection to his sack? I told a television station in Kaduna that it was abnormal. Why he alone and what has he done? If he has done anything wrong, we need to be told, the country has the right to know what he has done. Nobody has said anything and why at this time? Did you are preparing for hand over to another administration? Did the out-going president take him into confidence before the sack? Was due process followed? Was he asked to explain his conduct? Or they just announced that he was sacked? Sack means removal for misconduct. Was. If he did something wrong, of course, he should be sacked. We are used to regime; when a government is changed, everybody goes with the out going-government, nobody raises eye-brow, but this person was picked and sacked. Why was he sacked? He is not due for retirement yet. Tell us what he has done to warrant being sacked.
Some adduced the sack to political reasons?
Are they right? Have they evidence to prove it? The simplest thing is for the government to tell us what Suleiman has done for him to be sacked or compulsory retired.
But in all previous actions of the Federal Government, it never explained why it sacked any of the I.Gs?
They do. Things come out. Circumstance dictates such. But in this, there was nothing outward to suggest that there was something wrong with this Inspector General of Police. This is a man the American government praised for his role in the conduct of the general elections? And this is the man you just sacked without any reason.
So the ACF is against the sack?
No, we are not against the sack, we only want to know why he was removed.
What kind of person is Suleiman Abba, you knew him while you were in service?
Yes, I knew him as a young officer. When I left the police, he was ADC to the First Lady. But I knew his progress till he became a lawyer. And I know he has been working very well. But he has been removed.
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