IGP Sets Up Panel Of Inquiry To Investigate Death In Police Academy
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has set up a 7-man Panel of Inquiry to investigate the tragic incident at the Nigeria Police Academy (POLAC), Wudil, Kano State, where a Cadet, Sulaiman Jika, lost his life, last Friday,
The panel which was set up on Monday, 4th September, is headed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja, DIG Abiodun Alabi.
The panel has the mandate to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Cadet’s death.
The IGP also set a deadline of 4 days for the panel to furnish a comprehensive report detailing its findings and recommendations.
Other members of the panel include the AIG Training and Development, AIG Oyeyemi Oyediran; Force Medical Officer, CP Garba Emmanuel Nzukwen; CP Homicide FCID, CP Fom Pam Joseph, psc(+); CP Training POLAC, CP Patrick Edung; representative of the CP Legal as the Secretary, and the Principal Staff Officer II to the IGP, ACP Idris Abubakar.
Meanwhile, the IGP has sent condolences and commiserations to the family and relations of Sulaiman Jika and the academy community.
The IGP also assured the family that the Force would do the needful to ensure justice is done in the case.
An earlier Report had it that the 100-level Cadet died as a result of Staff Negligence at the ill-equipped Nigerian Police Academy Clinic
According to some of the cadets, the poor state of their hostels had become an impediment to their studies as they no longer had conducive atmosphere for their academic activities.
The year-one student of Department of Sociology died on Saturday at the institution’s medical centre.
It was learnt that the deceased is the son of late Abdullahi Jika.
A classmate of the deceased who pleaded anonymity narrated to repoters how the negligence of staff at the police training school cost Jika his life.
He said the deceased could have survived the “malaria sickness” if the health care personnel acted promptly.
The source added that students and staff of the institution had been complaining bitterly about the services at the academy clinic.
“We just lost a cadet today due to malaria at the police academy. The boy has been in the clinic for 3 days without receiving treatment until he died today,” he said.
On the state of the clinic, a 400-level cadet said, “Yes, we do complain. If we go to the clinic, the highest drug they give us is Paracetamol. How can they give paracetamol for pneumonia?
“A cadet will go there sometime/ and they’ll chase us back. We really need intervention please. People are sick but they are scared to go the clinic because even if they go, nothing will be done. Since this commandant came, He has made life very difficult for us. The food is nothing to write home about.”
The Nigeria Police Academy was established in 1988 following the need to upgrade the quality of Nigeria Police Force from the inherited British Colonial West African Frontier Force.
It was also established as part of the Police Reform initiative; to produce the ideal Superior Police Officer who is equipped with knowledge and skills to face the challenges of policing in an increasingly complex Nigerian society and technologically sophisticated world. It is built on the philosophy to train highly reformed, mobile, innovative, effective civil police.
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