A former
Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase on Monday in Abuja described as lies
the allegation by his successor,Ibrahim Idris that he took away 24 police
vehicles. According to him, Idris should cross check his handover notes which
contains every information needed by his successor on vehicles bought by the
police.
The ex-IGP in a
statement issued from London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, where he went for
his son's graduation. also denied getting any letter from Idris since he has
been out of the country.
According to him,
all vehicles bought by the police under him were distributed to the state
commands and other appropriate units of the Nigeria Police Force. The statement
reads:
"I suspect
there must be a disconnect somewhere because every information needed by my
successor are provided in my hand-over notes. I'm also not aware that any letter
was written to me because if there was any dropped in my house, someone would
have alerted me. "It's unfortunate that this matter is being made a media
issue because my successor has my telephone number and could have called me for
any clarification or even sent me a text message rather than addressing the
media on an issue well documented in my hand-over notes."
Idris had claimed
that Arase went away with 24 police vehicles while the seven Deputy
Inspectors-General of Police, who retired alongside him, also carted away
between seven and eight cars each.
Idris said that he
had written Arase to return the cars, which included two official bullet-proof
BMW 7 series cars, adding that the retired police chief and his DIGs had yet to
return the vehicles.
He had explained
that a special investigation team was already looking at the records of police
vehicle purchases in the last three years as well as how they were distributed.
Idris had said, "If you look through the windows of my former office and from
the report from my (Force) transport officer, you would see cars but a week to
the day I would resume, all these cars disappeared.
Source: Lindaikejisblog
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