Anxiety In Police As IGP Idris’ Tenure Ends …Idris Must Go, PDP Insists

There is anxiety in the Nigeria Police  over what could happen in the next 24 hours,  as the service term of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, ended yesterday.
Idris, the nation’s 19th Inspector General of Police, was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari,  on March  21, 2016, to replace Solomon Arase. The 59-year-old Niger State-born Police Chief is due for retirement having enlisted in 1984.
But there are speculations that his tenure could be extended by the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, as he is yet to attain the mandatory retirement age of 60 years.
Already,  reactions have started to trail the possibility of the tenure extension, owing to the silence and what was described as the tactical delay to appoint a senior police officer to take over from Idris.
One of those agitating for a  new IGP,  the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, urged  President Buhari to resist the pressure to extend the tenure of  IGP  Idris and all Service Chiefs.
National Coordinator of NOPRIN, Mr. Okechukwu Nwaguma said: “ President Buhari, in your new year message, you reiterated your commitment to ensuring a free, fair and peaceful  elections in 2019. But there are clear dangers to the realisation of this promise. “Among the obstacles is the partisanship of security agencies under your policy and operational control.
The worse is the Nigeria Police Force through the obsequious posture of the current Inspector General of Police whose term expires this January.