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Arase Blasts Ibrahim Idris

Solomon Arase & Ibrahim IdrisMr. Solomon Arase, the immediate past Inspector-General of Police has taken the new Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris to the cleaners for accusing him of carting away 24 police vehicles. “I suspect there must be a disconnect somewhere because the information needed by my successor are provided in my handover 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 handover notes.”

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It is interesting to know that the new police boss squealed recently that his former boss carted away 24 police vehicles: “So, what I am telling you is that I have signed a directive to my SIP (I have a special investigation panel, I set it up). It is going to investigate all the vehicle purchases, contributions to the police and the distribution of those vehicles in the last three years; we are going to look into that. When I took over, there was no vehicle, even the vehicle I would use. I discovered the last IG went away with 24 vehicles; the DIGs, some of them eight, some of them seven. The IG’s vehicles included two BMW 7 series, one armoured; and he left me with an old car.”