Retirement: No Ill Feelings, It’s A Stage – Ex-IGP Alkali Baba
The immediate past Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba Alkali, has said that he habour no ill feelings over his compulsory retirement from service by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Baba. Who stated this on Tuesday while handing over to his successor, Acting IGP Kayode Egbetokun, noted that life and service are but a stage in which people come to play a party and leave.
In his words; “It’s a stage, you come, you work, and you go”.
Baba however, expressed happiness that he was handing over to somebody he knew will carry the mantle of leadership from where he stopped.
Asked how much he knew about his successor, the former IGP said; “We grew up on the job together. I was his boss at a time or when I was the IG. He worked under me twice. We have been working together and I know that he would go ahead to champion the course of the police from where I stopped”.
Speaking in turn, the new Acting IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, who was decorated on Tuesday by Vice President Kashim Shettima before moving to the Police Force headquarters to takeover, said that he would try his best to bring about the necessary and needed reforms in the police.
President Tinubu on Monday approved the retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police, Mr Alkali Baba, who was replaced by a Deputy Inspector general of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun.
