Ignore Smear Marketing campaign In opposition to IGP Egbetokun, CASA Tells Nigerians

The Civic Alliance for Safety Accountability (CASA) has strongly condemned what it calls a coordinated marketing campaign of calumny towards the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, urging Nigerians to ignore all unfounded assaults on his particular person and management.

In an announcement launched on Friday, Could 30, 2025, the President of CASA, Charles Egbunike, described the assaults as a part of a broader agenda to discredit not simply the IGP, but in addition President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, underneath whose administration Egbetokun was appointed.

“These campaigns will not be solely malicious however intentionally designed to create instability,” Egbunike stated. “These behind them will not be simply attacking the IGP; they’re utilizing him as a device to hit on the President. That is due to the IGP’s long-standing affiliation with President Tinubu, courting again to when he served as his Chief Safety Officer throughout Tinubu’s tenure as Governor of Lagos State greater than 20 years in the past.”

In response to the group, the actual masterminds behind the smear marketing campaign are disgruntled components who misplaced out following the IGP’s latest reforms geared toward sanitizing the system, particularly his determination to implement the place of the regulation and the Police Service Fee on retirement age and repair years. These people, who’re indignant over the unalloyed assist Egbetokun enjoys from the President and the members of the Nigeria Police Power, he stated, at the moment are collaborating with unscrupulous figures within the on-line media area who’ve been paid to do a hatchet job.

“These people prospered underneath a corrupt system and at the moment are resentful as a result of Inspector Common Egbetokun has put an finish to that period of impunity and unprofessional conduct. They’re utilizing faceless on-line platforms and questionable media retailers to unfold lies and forged doubt on the IGP’s credibility. Very quickly, we’ll begin revealing the folks behind this marketing campaign, together with a retired Senior Police officer who’s sad about the way in which he left workplace. We can even expose these paying for on-line assaults meant to weaken the police and, by extension, the federal government. This isn’t simply an assault on one man, it’s an try to undermine nationwide safety. We is not going to let that occur,” Egbunike stated.

Talking alongside Egbunike,  a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Idris Dauda Dabban, described IGP Egbetokun, as a really skilled, hardworking, humble and forward-thinking officer whose management is shaping a extra disciplined {and professional} Nigerian Police Power as he advises those that are attacking him for his or her myopic egocentric causes to desist from it.

AIG Dabban (rtd), who was a coursemate of Egbetokun on the Police Academy and later served intently with him, gave private insights into the character and work ethics of the nation’s prime cop.

“IGP Egbetokun is a really humble, selfless, brave and hardworking officer,” Dabban stated. “He’s somebody who listens, interacts effectively with folks, and genuinely cares about getting the job achieved.”

Their connection goes method again, not simply as coursemates but in addition as shut colleagues posted to the identical items and dwelling in the identical police barracks. In response to Dabban, that have gave him a front-row view of the IGP’s drive, look after the folks and fervour for obligation.

“After we left the academy, we have been each posted again to Lagos. We served in the identical unit and even lived in the identical barracks at Satellite tv for pc Police Barrack. I can confidently say I do know him very effectively,” Dabban recalled.

“He’s at all times forward, very proactive, by no means reactive. He doesn’t tolerate something that goes towards the ethics of the Power. He’s very forward-looking, passionate in regards to the job and holds himself and others to excessive requirements. I can say Nigerians are fortunate to have this sort of incorruptible cop as their IGP.

“He’s a nationalist, he’s by no means tribalistic or considers non secular sentiment. For him, it’s all in regards to the job, work, work, and extra work. He’s totally dedicated to constructing a greater police power that I’m sure about.”

Talking in the same vein, the Secretary-Common of CASA, Emamode Peters, praised IGP Egbetokun for the constructive adjustments he’s bringing to the Power.

In response to him, Egbetokun is just not solely a robust chief but in addition a extremely educated officer who brings deep information and self-discipline into policing.

He stated, “One factor I love most in regards to the IGP is his work ethic. He drives his subordinates onerous as a result of he believes in outcomes. Laziness and unprofessional conduct don’t have any place underneath his management. I’ve personally noticed that he leads from the entrance; he works around the clock, involves the workplace early, and spends greater than 14 hours within the workplace every day, and I additionally know that the majority days he doesn’t go to mattress till 4 am. As a result of he continues with conferences and work from home. I marvelled at how he attends to the deluge of labor and recordsdata on his desk and he does all of that with vigour and professionalism.”