Police sergeant writes IGP over alleged threat to life, reduction of rank

A police sergeant, serving with Taraba State Command, Shuaibu Habu, has written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alkali Baba Usman, over alleged threat to his life and reduction of rank from inspector to Sergaent. 
   
The aggrieved officer with service number F/NO379110, in a petition, made available to The Guardian in Jalingo, yesterday, also decried the alleged maltreatment of junior officers by their superiors.
 
Habu, who claimed, ‘God sent him into the Nigeria police on a divine mission’, believed that the much desired change in the country can only be achieved when the bad eggs in the force are put where they ought to be.
 

“If police will not stop collecting money in the name of returns from illegal trading, then the Nigerian government will be boxing the air.”
 
Passionately pleading with the IGP to wade in and save his life and as well look into the issues that led to the reduction of his rank, Habu said: “ I  am nobody, but I am claiming that God sent me as He sent Moses to Pharaoh in Egypt.”
 
Contacted, a senior police officer who claimed to be aware of Habu’s case, said it is an “inherited case” adding that the present commissioner of police in the state “is not in the picture.”