The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has given SP Daniel Amah, the Nasarawa Divisional Police Officer in Kano State, a certificate of commendation for turning down a $200,000 bribe in a case involving an alleged armed robbery.
According to information obtained by our correspondent, certain police officers and a Kano-based attorney were involved in the armed robbery case.
Amah was praised for displaying “sound professionalism” in a letter of commendation from the IGP that resulted in the detention of Ali Zaki, a lawyer with a base in Kano, as well as a few police personnel.
A statement by the Kano State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Kiyawa, read in part, “On behalf of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, the Command’s Acting Commissioner of Police presented a commendation letter to SP Daniel Amah, for maintaining outstanding excellent work ethics, uncommon focus and dedication to duty, and exhibiting sound professionalism leading to the arrest and prosecution of one Ali Zaki and some police officers in a case of an armed robbery involving the sum of three hundred and twenty million, five hundred thousand naira only, as well as rejecting the sum of $200,000 offered to him as a bribe.”
