Bayelsa CP retires, remains in office






There is a brewing crisis in the Bayelsa State Police Command over the retirement of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kingsley Omire.

Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday that though Omire retired on April 21, the state police boss had refused to vacate his office.

Omire was retired by the Force Headquarters after he was confirmed to be 60 years old.

Our correspondent gathered that Omire's refusal to leave office was creating disaffection between him and other senior police officers in the command.

Investigations revealed that if a commissioner of police in a command retires, the deputy commissioner of police assumes commanding roles, pending the deployment of another commissioner by the Inspector-General of Police.

But instead of vacating his office, Omire was said to be reporting at the command daily in mufti.

The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Alex Akhigbe, confirmed to our correspondent that Omire had retired.

He, however, said the former commissioner had remained in office to sort out some administrative issues.

He insisted that there was no crisis in the command over the presence of Omire, adding that the development had not created any vacuum in the command.

He said, "The commissioner has retired. There are some administrative issues he is sorting out pending the arrival of the new commissioner. He is not coming to the office in uniforms because he is retired. There is no vacuum because there is a chain of command, and if there is a job to be done, people are there to do it."





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