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| Former IGP, Solomon Arase (rtd) |
Barely 24
hours after the Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, accused his
predecessor, IGP, Solomon Arase (rtd), of moving away 24 Police vehicles
including the official IGP Staff Car, which is armoured plated and bullet
proof, and the spare staff car, both of which are BMW’s have been found.
Today News report
continues:
It was gathered that both
cars were sent to an auto repair shop for total and comprehensive repairs for
use of the next IGP.
The cars were sent to
Auto Computers located in the Jabi district of Abuja and that the spare BMW car
has been completed and repainted.
The spare staff car was
said to have been having engine problems for the last five years before the
last administration sent it for repairs.
A source at Auto Computer
said that the spare car was delivered to the Police headquarters on Sunday
afternoon after completion of repairs and that officials of the company would
visit the Acting IGP to demand for payment of the job done.
For the armoured plated
Staff Car, it was gathered that because of the high technology embedded in the
car, the company will need more time to fix the identified problems of the car
as some of the needed parts will be imported.
The source pointed out
that nobody approached Auto Computer to ask about the whereabouts of the cars,
and that since it was the police that brought them, they (company) just went
about their repairs.
When sought to find out
if the proper procedure of ascertaining location of the cars were followed, it
was discovered that the Works Department and the Force Transport Department
that would have been approached for explanations were not approached.
Rather, the IGP
secretariat comprising of newly posted officers, were said to have written the
former IGP demanding the whereabouts of the staff cars and other 22 vehicles,
some the former IGP was said to have interpreted as a slight on his person.
Further investigation in
other relevant departments regarding the whereabouts of other vehicles showed
that the vehicles were intact and that while some were deployed for operations,
the Police had records of the location of others.
Recall that when news of
the alleged missing 24 vehicles made the rounds on Sunday, the former IGP,
responded to questions saying the allegations were the handiwork of mischief
makers bent on trying to tarnish his integrity.
He wondered what he would be doing with 24 Police operational vehicles when he was not operating a car mart.
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