Inspector General of Police should be Igbo – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

By Oluchi Ihediuche

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly Worldwide has urged the Federal Government to consider an Igbo extraction for the position of the Inspector General of Police, who is due for retirement.

The President-General of the group, Onyeachonam Onuorah stated this on Wednesday in Awka, the Anambra State capital.

“There is no Igbo man among the newly appointed Service Chiefs. Those who claim that the newly appointed Chief of Defense Staff Maj Gen Leo Irabor is an Igbo man should tell us if Irabor is an Igbo name.

“As the Inspector General of Police is due for retirement and fast getting ready to exit the police apex position, we call on the APC- led Federal Government to consider an Igbo man for the position of the Inspector General of Police.

“If there is no Igbo man or woman qualified for the job of the IGP, promote the Igbos next in line in the Police Force to fit in.”

He however commended the president for yielding to the long-time expectations of Nigerians for the change of the security architecture of the country through sacking of its old service chiefs.

He tasked the appointees to justify the confidence reposed in them by taking up “this onerous task and daring challenges of insecurity in our country.”