IGP Orders Probe into Dadiyata Killing Claims Against 2 Officers

The Inspector General of Police has ordered the Police Monitoring Unit to investigate allegations that two senior officers, Chief Superintendents Hussaini Gimba and Hassan Gimba, killed prominent activist and lecturer Abubakar Idris, known as Dadiyata, during an operation in Kaduna.

The directive followed petitions submitted last week by Kano-based human rights lawyer Abba Hikima on behalf of Muhammad Musa Kamarawa, a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle. In the petitions, Kamarawa claimed he witnessed the officers kill Dadiyata and Saminu SFada Gusau, among others, at Operations Yaki in Kaduna. He alleged the officers threatened him with the same fate during his interrogation, coercing him to conceal his association with Matawalle, now Minister of State for Defence, and questioning him about ties to ex-Sokoto Governor Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa.

An official acknowledgment letter from the Force Headquarters in Abuja, signed by Principal Staff Officer CP Lateef Adio Ahmed, confirmed receipt of the petitions and stated that the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Monitoring Unit had been directed to act. The letter assured...