FG drops charges against Ribadu

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The Police Service Commission (PSC) partially caved in to pressure from the Presidency yesterday and annulled its earlier decision of demoting former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Malam Nuhu Ribadu from the rank of Assistant Inspector General to Deputy Commissioner and also dismissed him from the force. PSC has now restored his rank of AIG and converted his dismissal to retirement. The commission however turned down pressure from the Presidency to re-enlist Ribadu into the Nigeria Police.
The Commission had in August 2008 demoted Ribadu from the rank of AIG to Deputy Commissioner in what the authorities then said was aimed at correcting irregular and unconstitutional promotions of 140 police officers. Ribadu was dismissed from the police force on December 22, 2008 for insubordination to the police authorities.

Sources at the Commission told our reporter that members of the Commission were "compelled" by the Presidency to review Ribadu's case. Earlier, Ribadu's lawyers had forwarded a letter of appeal to the Commission's Chairman, retired Police DIG Parry B. Osayande, asking the commission to soft pedal by re-enlisting him into the police force on the grounds that he was "young, active and capable of moving the police and the country forward."

The sources said members of the Commission disagreed with the appeal entirely and were at first determined to dismiss it, but that they later "bowed to superior powers when the pressure was enormous." Even then, the members at their meeting yesterday, which lasted from morning until afternoon, agreed not to re-enlist Ribadu into the police force but reinstate his former rank of AIG and reduce his dismissal to retirement. "He is now a retired AIG with effect from December 22, 2008 and not a serving AIG," the sources said.

According to the sources, the earlier decisions to demote and then dismiss Ribadu "were taken to correct certain anomalies done in the past and to ensure orderliness in the affairs of the police force. Members of the commission were divided on whether or not to review the case of Ribadu at yesterday's sitting but they had to unite to review the matter due to intense pressure." Daily Trust learnt that one of the commission's members rejected the consensus and voted against the decision to restore Ribadu's rank. 

Force Public Relations Officer ACP Emmanuel Ojukwu told Daily Trust yesterday that the police authorities have not been informed about the PSC's decision. Asked whether the police will accept the decision should they receive it, he said, "The police will abide by the decisions of the PSC and give Ribadu all entitlements enjoyed by retired AIGs, if that is the decision."   

Ribadu was given accelerated promotion by then President Olusegun Obasanjo from the rank of Assistant Commissioner to AIG. He was at the time Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC]. He was later demoted alongside 139 officers for "lack of due diligence in the process in which their promotions were conducted."

A statement by PSC's Chairman Parry B. Osayande at the time had said, "It was found very disturbing, the irregular promotion of 140 officers prior to the inauguration of the commission without due recourse to the PSC that has the statutory responsibility to do so. The commission notes that the special promotion was not based on the established criteria and was a total breach of section 153 of the 1999 Constitution and the PSC Act 2001. It has therefore been the cause of disillusionment, agitation and indiscipline within the Nigeria Police Force."

A different statement signed by then police spokesman ACP Akpoebi Agberebi said Ribadu was dismissed from the police for indiscipline, insubordination and absence from duty.

[Muhsin]

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