Anyone thinking Nigeria, world’s most populous Black nation will be a safe haven for terrorists and other agents of violence, probably needs the urgent attention of a psychiatrist as the Police Authorities under Alhaji Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, NPM, mni is not ready to brook any nonsense in the name of violence within the Nigerian Federation.
When suicide bombers took the fight to his Office yesterday, letting off a bomb at the Force Headquarters’ car park in Abuja, Nigeria, killing the suicide bomber himself and a Police Traffic Warden, they did not only miscalculate, but no doubt have dared the ‘lion in his den’ as the IGP and his men are set to do battle with terrorists and other perpetrators of violence who strayed into the Nigerian space.
Sources at the Force Headquarters said such agents of violence would be ruthlessly crushed on arrival!
Vigilance learnt that the incident which claimed the lives of the suicide bomber and a Police Traffic Warden occurred at about 1100hrs of 16/06/2011 when the bomber’s vehicle was intercepted and directed to the car park to be searched and checked.
The Traffic Warden who entered the vehicle of the suicide bomber to direct him to the car park is said to have been blown off along with him as soon as they had got to the car park.
The Nigeria’s IGP was full of praise for his colleagues at the Federal Fire Service together with members of Nigerian Armed Forces who patriotically rose to the call of duty soon as the incident had occurred by putting off the fire in a jiffy! This singular act of team work, observers of the Nigerian nation abroad said demonstrates the team spirit that exists amongst the Nigerian security ‘family’.
Vigilance’s Terrorism Watch and the Intelligence and Policing teams learnt that the body of the suicide bomber has been recovered and a full investigation commenced in earnest.
Meanwhile, the Police Authorities in Nigeria have assured members of the public and foreigners alike that the perpetrators of the violence would be hounded and rounded up as the Government, the Police and other security agencies would not succumb to the demand of any criminal group or individual.
ABOUT NIGERIA’S INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE
IGP HAFIZ ABUBAKAR RINGIM, NPM, mni
Hafiz Abubakar Ringim was born in Ringim Local Govt Area of Jigawa State on the 1st of April, 1953. A holder of an Advanced Diploma in Public Administration, IGP Ringim joined the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Inspector on 1st March, 1977 and had his first stint of active police work in Kano, from 1978 to 1979, from where he was posted to the foremost investigative arm of the Force, the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon Close, Ikoyi Lagos. From the FCID, he was deployed to head the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB) in Plateau State, with the rank of a Deputy Superintendent of Police.
As an agile and vibrant officer, he was given command of the 9th Police Mobile Force (PMF) Squadron, in Kano. At the birth of the defunct National Guard, he featured actively as a Recruitment Officer and was later given command of the North-West Zone. At the cessation of the National Guard, he was deployed as Commandant of the elite Police Mobile Force Training College in Maiduguri, and took part in all the rigorous activities in the rough-and-tough Gwoza Camp. As an Assistant Commissioner of Police, he remained as Commandant from 1994 to 1997, and on promotion to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police, he was posted to Interpol section of the Force CID, Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos as Second-in-Command. He later assume command of the Interpol Section as Commissioner of Police.
As a Commissioner of Police, IGP Hafiz A. Ringim headed the following Police Commands Adamawa, Osun and Bayelsa States. In 2005, he proceeded to the prestigious National Institute For Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru and on graduation was admitted to the elite membership of the National Institute, (mni). On promotion to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police in 2006, he was first posted as Commandant of the highest Police training institution, the Police Staff College, in Jos, and later as the AIG in-charge of Border Patrol. On 28th August 2009, he was posted as AIG in-charge of Zone 9 Police Command that oversees police activities in Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo States.
On the 8th day of September, 2010, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, NPM, mni was appointed by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, as the 15th indigenous Inspector-General of Police, in acting capacity.
IGP Hafiz Ringim’s hobbies are farming and jogging.
His marriage is blessed with children.
***Source: Force Headquarters, Abuja, Nigeria.