From Noah Ebije, Kaduna
The Executive Chairman, Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Hon. Nasara Rabo, has rewarded a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) with the sum of N1million for rejecting a huge amount of money offered him by a suspected kidnapper to help truncate investigating him.
The DPO, Idris Ibrahim, serves as the Divisional Police Officer of Tafa in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The Council Chairman who stated this in a letter of recommendation, disclosed that the DPO made an arrest of a suspected kidnapper on 22nd January, 2024 who attempted to bribe him with some huge amounts of money to distort the investigation.
But the Police Officer rejected the bribe and vowed to allow the law to take its full course to serve as deterrent to others in such criminality.
“This singular effort you made has not only made the Nigeria Police Force proud but it had also made the good people of Kagarko Local Government Area, the good people of Kaduna State, and Nigeria at large.
“This is a testimony that with the caliber of officers like you in service, insecurity and other criminalities that are bedeviling our society today will become history.
“Under the foregoing, my Council and the Management Staff of Kagarko Local Government Council hereby serve you with a formal letter of commendation and also present you with a token gift of One Million Naira (N1,000,000.00) as a morale booster to make you put more patriotic effort in dealing with criminality in the Local Government Area and the country at large.
“I want to urge all police personnel in the State to always uphold the ethics of the profession by refusing to be compromised in the discharge of their duties.
“I pray to Almighty God to continue to encourage you to put in your best in the protection of the lives and property of the good people of Nigeria”. The Chairman said.