Farewell to Kayode Egbetokun, the IGP who mistook power for an eternal contract, hunting down nearly everyone who irritated him. At least those he c
Farewell to Kayode Egbetokun, the IGP who mistook power for an eternal contract, hunting down nearly everyone who irritated him. At least those he could get.
Under his watch, the police cemented itself as the cheapest tool in the hands of the rich and powerful, wilfully offering to go after activists and journalists who said, tweeted or printed things that were deemed offensive. In his reign, journalists got trailed, raided, abducted and detained in the meanest of ways, without reason and more importantly without trial.
Goodbye to Egbetokun, the IGP with residential and ancestral ties to the headquarters of smuggling in the southwest but someone managed to not notice them much less bring them to book (Not that I do not know why.).
He leaves office with a legacy of power abuse, incorrigibly corrupt force, heightened crime and association with some of society’s most questionable elements.
Hope his successor Tunji Disu does better. Or not. Up to him.
Fisayo Sombo is the founder of FIJ
