Jonathan appoints a religious bigot as acting IGP

Are we going from fry-pan to fire

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hafiz Ringim has been ordered by President Ebele Jonathan to go on a mandatory retirement, a month earlier than he is due for full retirement.

He has been replaced in acting capacity by Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, an Assistant Inspector General of police, in charge of Zone 12, Bauchi. In case you don't know him, Abubakar, then as the state commissioner of Police in Plateau state was indicted by Justice Niki Tobi panel as a religious bigot who was the mastermind of the killings of Christians in Jos during the September 7, 2001 crisis while Joshua Dariye was the governor and the panel recommended that he should be dismissed if he refused to resign.

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