The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris has decorated
Commissioner of Police (CP) Danjuma Ibrahim with his new rank of Assistant
Inspector General of Police (AIG), after being acquitted over alleged
killing of five traders and a woman in 2005 at Apo, Abuja.
He was suspended from duty and charged on allegation of extra-judicial
killing alongside Othaman Abdulsalam, Nicholas Zakaria, Baba Emmanuel,
Ezekiel Acheneje and Sadiq Salami as co-defendants for felony.
An FCT High Court Presided by Justice Ishaq Bello discharged and acquitted
Danjuma who was the first accused person, while Emmanuel and Acheneje were
sentenced to death.
In December 2017 shortly after his acquittal was promoted from the rank of
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) to the rank of Commissioner of Police.
He was since then been on course in Jos, Plateau State, and wason Monday
decorated wih the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police along with
CP Istafanus Shettima and CP Jimoh Omeiza Ozi-Obea.
Others decorated from the rank of DCP to CPs, include, Bello Yahaya,
Mukaddas Garba, Dasuki Galandanchi, Fave Semali and Sadiq Abubakar.