The Inspector-General of Police [IGP], Ibrahim Kpotum Idris has stated that he is free to love and/or marry any policewoman of his choice without breaching any law.
IGP Idris said this in a letter to the Senate while addressing the allegations of the senator representing Bauchi Central, Isah Misau.
Senator Misau had, during Senate plenary, accused Idris of impregnating, and later wedding secretly, a junior police officer in Kaduna.
Misau alleged that the act contravenes police act which prohibits senior officers from taking advantage of their junior officers.
According to the IGP’s letter, written through his lawyer, Alex Iziyon (SAN), and obtained by SUNDAY PUNCH, the IGP says no law prevents him from marrying a serving female police officer.
He, therefore, challenged Misau to prove so if any such law forbids him.
He even dared the senator, revealing that his [Senator Misau] father married the lawmaker’s mother while in active police service.
He also in the letter addressed the allegation that he was having affairs with two female officers who also got questionable promotions as a result.
Speaking, Idris said that the “allegation is laughable and showed lack of understanding of the provisions of the Police Act and regulation.”
The Inspector-General of Police challenged the senator to cite the section of the Police Act and Regulation which forbids a police officer from marrying another police officer.
He said: “Until he brings such section of the Police Act, it will amount to discussing the Inspector-General of Police’s private life, which ordinarily should not have been entertained on the floor of the Senate.
“It might be appropriate to remind the senator, whose mother retired from the police as an Inspector of Police and a father who retired from the police as an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, that the Inspector-General of Police is a Moslem and, according to Islamic Law, can marry four wives provided he can love them equally.
“The senator also alleged that the Inspector-General of Police is in a relationship with one Corporal Amina whom he claimed was promoted from the rank of Corporal to an Assistant Superintendent of Police within 12 months.
“This allegation is false and the senator is under obligation to give the full particulars of the female police (officer), where she is serving and her duty post.
“It is not possible to promote a corporal to the rank of an ASP except the officer has attended an in-service cadet course.”
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