Acting Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has said he feels like a lion ready to devour all enemies of Nigeria and take out all criminals in the country to deliver on his new mandate.
Mr Egbetokun made the remarks on Tuesday when he took over from the immediate past Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali.
“Now I have just been decorated and I am looking forward to taking over tomorrow morning by 11 a.m. I really can’t describe how I feel presently, but if I have to tell you anything, I will tell you that right now I feel like a tiger inside of me ready to chase away all the criminals in Nigeria. And some other time, I felt like a lion in me ready to devour all the internal enemies of Nigeria. That’s my feeling right now,” he said.
Earlier in the brief handover ceremony, the immediate past IGP Alkali said he harbours no ill feelings about his removal from the position following his compulsory retirement.
He was removed from office by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, alongside other heads of the Nigerian military, Customs and other top security advisers.
“It’s a stage, you come, you work, and you go. I’m happy I am handing over to somebody I know that will carry the mantle of leadership from where I have stopped,” Alkali said.
“We grew up in the job, we grew up together, I was his boss at a time or even when I was IG. He worked under me twice, we’ve been working together and I know how he can go ahead to champion the course of the police from where I stopped,” the former police boss said when he was asked to remark on the fitness of his successor for the new position.
