Zakari Biu, the commissioner of police who was dismissed over his alleged complicity in the escape of a Boko Haram leader, Kabiru Sokoto, has been declared not guilty by the Police Service Commission (PSC), Leadership reports.
Biu faced a military trial in 2012 at which he was found guilty and dismissed from the police force, because he led police officers from whom Sokoto escaped when they took the suspect to his house for a house search.
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In a statement by the PSC’s public relations officer, Ikechukwu Ani, yesterday, September 4, the commission said the decision to reinstate Biu was taken during the commission’s 13th plenary meeting held in Abuja where he was exonerated of any complicity in Sokoto’s escape.
“The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of two commissioners of Police to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police. The commission also reviewed the CP Zakari Biu’s appeal against his dismissal, exonerating him and retiring him statutorily.
“These decisions were the high points of the 13th plenary meeting of the commission held in Abuja. The meeting was presided over by the commission’s chairman, Dr Mike Mbama Okiro. It promoted CP Danladi Adi Yirama Mshielbwala and CP Ibrahim Idris to the next rank of AIG.
“It also exonerated CP Biu from the issues surrounding the escape of Kabiru Sokoto, an arrested Boko Haram kingpin in Abuja,” the statement read.
Sokoto has since been sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding the 2010 bombing of St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger state, in which 44 worshippers were killed and 70 others sustained injuries.
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Meanwhile, after the report by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commissiondemanding the return of N133 million from the chairman of the PSC, Mike Okiro, to the federal government, a civil group has asked him to tender his resignation.
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