Ex-President Jonathan’s CSO, DIG Moses Jitoboh Is Dead

R.I.P 🕯️🕯️🕯️DIG Moses Jitoboh.
He was deprived of being the Inspector General of Police twice, simply because he is from Bayelsa State.

Buhari refused to appoint him as IGP, despite being the most qualified senior officer judging by the 2020 police act which requires the next IGP to have a compulsory 4 years of service left, before he or she can be appointed as IGP.
Jitoboh had 9 years of service left, but Buhari appointed Alkali Baba IGP, who had just 2 years left.

When IGP Alkali retired in 2023, after an illegal extension of tenure, the only two senior police officers qualified for one to be appointed as IGP judging from the 2020 police act were DIG Frank Mba, who had 4 years, and DIG Moses Jitoboh, who had 6 years. For context, in 2020 Frank Mba was a commissioner of Police, so he wasn’t qualified amongst the top ranking police officers suitable to be appointed as IGP by then. But between 2020, and 2023, he had a double promotion, that qualified him for such an appointment in 2023. But Tinubu ignored both Frank Mba and Moses Jitoboh, to appoint Kayode Egbetokun who had just one year left in service as IGP.

He ignored Frank Mba who had 4 years and Moses Jitoboh who had 6 years of service left.
Because Moses Jitoboh was a senior DIG before Kayode Egbetokun, he was compulsorily retired after Egbetokun was appointed as IGP.
He is supposed to officially retire from police in 2029, but was kicked out before his time. He had good 5 years left even before his death today.

This is what ethnicity and tribalism causes for a nation. The best and most qualified are ignored intentionally

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