Officers Who Confronted Bandits, Rejected $200,000 From Armed Robbers, Returned $800 Lost by Pilgrim Get IGP’s Commendations

In the face of dismissals of officers for misconducts in the last few weeks, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has commended three of his men who have shown exemplary behaviours in recent time.
They are SP Daniel Itse Amah, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Nasarawa Division in Kano State, has been commended for his integrity and exhibition of sound professionalism leading to the arrest of an armed robbery syndicate despite being offered a bribe of 200,000 USD to look away, which he rejected; and Police Constable Nura Mande attached to the Katsina State Police Command who found and returned an envelope containing 800 USD belonging to an intending pilgrim, an old woman, at the Hajj Camp, Katsina.
Ndukwu of the Imo State Police Command who successfully laid ambush and neutralized two members of a bandit gang who stormed his house in the early hours of August 4th, 2022.
According to Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force spokesman who made this known on Wednesday, the Police Inspector who was armed, surprised the bandits with heavy gunfire which repelled their attacks.
The police had recently ordered the dismissal of some his men who were found guilty of misconducts.
One of them, Opeyemi Kadiri, was recorded in a viral video, brutalizing a young Nigerian who complained that searching his phone contravened the order of the police boss.
Adejobi’s statement added that the Inspector-General of Police has charged all officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force to emulate the noble conduct of these exemplary members of the Force. He tasked the commended officers to continually exemplify good conduct, integrity, bravery and gallantry in the discharge of their policing responsibilities.