IGP REINSTATES JANGA AS KOGI POLICE COMMISSIONER
Mr. Ali Janga has been reinstated as the Commissioner of Police in Kogi State, the state police command spokesman, ASP William Aya, has confirmed. Aya told newsmen in Lokoja on Thursday that Janga returned to office on April 3 on the order of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris. He said that Janga was reinstated after meeting 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. The Police Spokesman also said that 13 persons that aided the escape of the suspects had been arrested in Lokoja. According to him, those arrested are commercial tricycles 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 the conclusion of an investigation.
Janga had on March 28 announced that six suspects, including Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama and Nuhu Salisu, who had named Senator Dino Melaye as their gun supplier escaped from lawful police custody in Lokoja.
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