Nigeria’s chief of police sacked

All six of Ringim’s deputy inspectors had been approved for immediate
retirement and a committee has been set-up to oversee the reorganisation of
the police, the statement said.

The committee’s goals included: “To determine the general and specific
causes of the collapse of public confidence in the police and recommend ways
of restoring public trust in the institution … examine records of
performance of officers of the Nigeria Police Force with a view to
identifying those that can no longer fit into the system.”

Police arrested Kabiru Sokoto in connection with a Dec 25 bombing last week
and while they were taking him from police headquarters to his house in
Abaji, outside Abuja, to conduct a search there, their vehicle came under
fire and he escaped.

Security sources said it was a “dangerous and suspicious” way to
handle a suspect.

Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the bombing of St. Theresa Catholic
Church in Madalla, on the outskirts of Abuja, which killed 37 people and
wounded 57, the deadliest of a series of a attacks on Christmas.

Boko Haram, which in the Hausa language of northern Nigeria means “Western
education is sinful”, is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in
Afghanistan. It became active around 2003 and is concentrated mainly in the
northern Nigerian states.

Nigeria’s population of more than 160 million people is roughly split between
a largely Muslim north and a predominantly Christian south.

Source: Reuters

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