PSC exonerates CP Zakari Biu over Kabiru Sokoto escape

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has
commuted the dismissal of former Commissioner
of Police in charge Counter-Terrorism Operations
at Zone 7, Abuja, CP Zakari Biu under whose
supervision, a notorious Boko Haram suspect,
Kabiru Sokoto, escaped along Abaji road to
retirement.
The PSC also approved the promotion of two
Commissioners’ of Police to the rank of
Assistant Inspector’s General of Police.
Recall that CP Zakari Biu appealed against his
dismissal, blaming the escape of the Boko
Haram suspect on other extraneous factors other
than those attributed to him, resulting in the PSC
exonerating him and retiring him statutorily.
A statement signed by Ikechukwu Ani, head of
Information at the Commission, noted that
“These decisions were the high points of the
13th plenary meeting of the Commission held in
Abuja yesterday”.
“The meeting presided over by the Commission’s
Chairman, Sir Mike Mbama Okiro, promoted CP.
Danladi Adi Yirama Mshielbwala and CP Ibrahim
Idris to the next rank of AIG.
“It also exonerated CP Biu from the issues
surrounding the escape of Kabiru Sokoto, an
arrested Boko Haram kingpin in Abuja.”