IGP Adamu takes over security at EFCC, orders redeployment of mobile police officers

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A source said new operatives have been deployed to the commission.

The Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, has ordered the withdrawal of mobile police personnel attached to the, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt, effectively taking over security at the EFCC.

“All mobile police personnel attached to the EFCC have been withdrawn with new police personnel deployed to the commission on the orders from the AIG in charge of Mobile Police in Abuja,” the source told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, saying a signal to that effect was sent by the AIG MOPOL to all heads of mobile police units across the country.

Efforts to reach the spokesperson to the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, for comments were unsuccessful as his known phone number was switched off. “This development would only make the IG of police determine who comes in and out of the EFCC,” one of the officials lamented. “Are they turning the EFCC to a unit of the police.”

 

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