The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate removal of Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Ali Janga, after the escape of six suspects from custody on Wednesday.

Esa Sunday Ogbu has been announced as Janga’s successor.

The policemen are all facing serious disciplinary action, according to the police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood. Its gathered that the police boss also redeployed the Commander, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state.

The Divisional Police Officer ‘A’ Division, Lokoja, and other police officers implicated in the escape were also redeployed for negligence, dereliction of duty and gross misconduct.

Meanwhile, the police have confirmed the arrival of an Intelligence Response Team and a Special Tactical Squad in the Confluence State.

”The IGP’s Intelligence Response Team and Special Tactical Squad, Personnel of the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department have already arrived in Kogi state to work with the police personnel in the state for immediate re-arrest of the escaped suspects,” the police twitted on Wednesday. Janga had earlier in the day confirmed that two criminal suspects who accused Senator Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West) of acquiring arms for them had escaped from police custody.

The two suspects, Kabiru Seudu, aka Osama, and Nuhu Salish, aka Small, along with four others, were said to have escaped from the ‘A’ division cell in Lokoja, around 3am and forcefully went through the back door. Meanwhile, Senator Melaye has threatened to sue the Inspector General of Police over the reported escape of the suspects who accused him of being their gun supplier.

Speaking on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, the lawmaker representing Kogi West cited Order 43 to submit that the police had either released the suspects or killed them.

He, thereafter, asked the police to produce the suspects dead or alive or he would sue their boss, Idris, for intimidation, abuse of power, harassment and mental assault.

The police had on 20 March paraded the suspects allegedly working for Melaye.

They were arrested with two AK-47 and five pump action guns.

The suspects were scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday.