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 NAN, in Lokoja, on Thursday that Janga
returned to office on April 3 on the order of the Inspector -General of Police
(IGP), 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.
Aya 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 conclusion of investigation.
Janga on March 28 announced that six suspects,
including Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama and Nuhu Salisu, who had named Sen. Dino
Melaye as their gun supplier escaped from lawful police custody in Lokoja.
Following the incident, the Inspector-General of
Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, removed Janga as the state Commissioner of Police and
named Mr Sunday Ogbu as his replacement.
Aya said that the 13 policemen that were on duty on
the day of the incident had gone to the police headquarters for interrogation
as directed by the IGP, saying that they had started returning to their duty
posts.
IGP Idris reverses self, returns Ali Janga as Kogi CP
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