Police Commissioner Ali Janga’s Back On The Kogi Beat
The Oasis Reporters
April 6, 2018
An Assistant Superintendent of Police, William Aya has told newsman in Lokoja on Thursday that the previously removed Kogi state Police Commissioner Ali Janga has gone back to the Kogi beat, courtesy of a new instruction by Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
Ali Janga returned to office on April 3
Mr. Janga got his job back because he met the one week ultimatum given to him by the Inspector – General of Police to re-arrest the suspects who escaped from police custody.
The police spokesman confirmed that all the six suspects that escaped from lawful police custody on March 28 had been re-arrested.
Aya also said that 13 persons that aided the escape of the suspects had been arrested in Lokoja.
According to him, those arrested are commercial tricycle operators that ferried the suspects to safety after their escape and the owners of the houses where they slept after their escape from custody.
He said that all the suspects would be charged to court after conclusion of investigation.
Janga had on March 28 announced that six suspects, including Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama and Nuhu Salisu, who had named Sen. Dino Melaye as their gun supplier escaped from lawful police custody in Lokoja.
Following the incident, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, removed Janga as the state Commissioner of Police and named Mr Sunday Ogbu as his replacement.
Aya said that the 13 policemen that were on duty on the day of the incident had gone to the police headquarters for interrogation as directed by the IGP, saying that they had started returning to their duty posts.
Meanwhile, Dino Melaye, Senator representing Kogi West has headed to the Supreme Court over his planned recall by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
