Ohanaeze Group Asks Buhari To Consider Igbo For IGP

Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo General Assembly Worldwide on Wednesday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to consider appointing an Igbo as the next inspector-general of police (IGP).

On Tuesday, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, announced the resignation of the service chiefs and the appointment of new persons to fill in their positions.

The new service chiefs include: Major-General Lucky Irabor, chief of defence staff; Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru, chief of army staff; Awwal Gambo, chief of naval staff, and Isiaka Amao, chief of air staff.

In a statement signed by the president-general of the group, Onuorah Onyeachonam, said Buhari made no Igbo appointee to the disappointment of the group.

He further urged the president to appoint the most senior Igbo native in the force as IGP.

Onyeachonam charged the new service chiefs to take up the task and combat the “daring challenges of insecurity in our country”.

“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,” he said.

“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.”