Successor, Ibrahim Idris had
told reporters at the weekend that Arase went away with 24 police vehicles
while each of the seven Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, who retired
alongside him, also carted away between seven and eight cars.
The acting
Inspector-General of Police, IGP, who said he had written Arase to return the
cars, which included two official bullet-proof BMW 7 series cars, stated that
the retired police chief and his DIGs were yet to return the vehicles.
“If you look through the
windows of my former office and from the report from my (Force) transport
officer, you would see cars but a week to the day I would resume, all these
cars disappeared,” he had said.
But in a statement issued
from London, United Kingdom, where he went for his son’s graduation, the ex-IGP
denied getting any letter from Idris since he has been out of the country,
stressing that his successor should cross check his handover notes which
contains whatever information is needed on the vehicles bought by the police.
Arase asserted that all
vehicles bought by the police under him were distributed to the state commands
and other appropriate units of the Nigeria Police Force.
He said in the statement,
“I suspect there must be disconnect somewhere because every information needed
by my successor are provided in my hand-over notes. I’m also not aware that any
letter was written to me because if there was any dropped in my house, someone
would have alerted me.
“It’s unfortunate that this
matter is being made a media issue because my successor has my telephone number
and could have called me for any clarification or even sent me a text message
rather than addressing the media on an issue well documented in my hand-over
notes.”
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