{"id":10186,"date":"2016-07-18T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10186"},"modified":"2016-07-18T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:44:28","slug":"missing-24-vehicles-my-successor-lied-against-me-he-could-have-sent-me-a-text-message-not-addressing-the-media-ex-igp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10186","title":{"rendered":"Missing 24 vehicles: My successor lied against me, &#8220;he could have sent me a text message, not addressing the media&#8221; &#8211; Ex-IGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=9411&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solomon Arase, former inspector-general of police (IGP), has denied the allegation that he took away 24 police vehicles while leaving office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Ibrahim Idris, his successor, accused him and the deputy inspectors-general (DIG) who retired along with him of illegally leaving service\u00a0with vehicles belonging to the force.<\/p>\n<p>The acting IGP had said he had written to Arase and all the officers concerned to return the vehicles to avoid sanction.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking from London, where he is billed to attend the graduation ceremony of his son, Arase expressed shock over the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why Idris, who could have sent him a \u201ctext message\u201d, decided to address the media on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>He also denied receiving any letter from his successor on the development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suspect there must be a disconnect somewhere because every information needed by my successor are provided in my handover notes,\u201d Arase said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m also not aware that any letter was written to me because if there was any dropped in my house, someone would have alerted me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 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 handover notes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>thecable.ng<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Police-IG.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10005\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Police-IG-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Police IG\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Police-IG-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Police-IG-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Police-IG.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon Arase, former inspector-general of police (IGP), has denied the allegation that he took away 24 police vehicles while leaving office. On Sunday, Ibrahim Idris, his successor, accused him and the deputy inspectors-general (DIG) who retired along with him of illegally leaving service\u00a0with vehicles belonging to the force. The acting IGP had said he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2217,2398,840],"class_list":["post-10186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-ibrahim-idris","tag-inspector-general-of-police-igp","tag-solomon-arase"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Police-IG.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2Ei","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}