The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed shock that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu spared “the non-performing and grossly INCOMPETENT Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun,” while removing the service chiefs yesterday, Friday, October 24, 2025.

HURIWA is paid by this because “the internal security architecture of the Country has virtually collapsed and different armed non-state actors have continued to unleash mayhem and violence on a massive scale in Nigeria.”

HURIWA in a statement late Friday by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emanuel Onwubiko, noted that, “the reconstituted service chiefs to a good extent reflected the Federal character principles of the Nigerian constitution. But the group blasted the President “for allowing ethnic sentiments to be cloud his decision by failing to relieve the incompetent and inefficient Inspector-General of Police Mr Kayode Egbetokun of his position so as to appoint a younger and much more competent officer as a replacement.”

According to HURIWA, “If there is any of the security heads who should be booted out with immediate effect, the Inspector-General of Police Mr. Kayode Egbetokun ranks highest because the Nigeria Police Force under his watch have significantly become weaker operationally just as the intelligence capacity of the NPF has evaporated into thin air because the hierarchy of the police lacks what it takes to adequately police all nooks and crannies of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The only reason the president left the IGP is because he is a kinsman of the president and has been his chief security officer for 8 years in Lagos when the current president was the governor of Lagos state. Nigeria police Force is a spent Force and has degenerated in professionalism and has become very compromised, corrupt and bribery infested. The changes in the heads of the security agencies for now is incomplete for as long as the poorly performing IGP is left on his seat just as the President had violated the constitution by retroactively enforcing the amendment to the Police Act of 2020 to extend the tenure of the IGP just so the police can be deploy to manipulate the coming general elections in 2027 in favour of the National ruling political party if the All Progressives Congress.”