•••AS BUHARI SENDS CONDOLENCES TO FAMILY, NPF
The family of the late former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tafa Balogun, has released the burial arrangements of the late IGP.
According to the family, the late IGP will be buried on Saturday in his hometown, Ila-Orangun, Osun State, according to the Muslim rites.
The family said his body would leave Lagos early Saturday and would be buried at his house in Ila-Orangun before 4 pm the same day.
The late IGP, died in his birthday month at the age of 74 years, a few days before his 75th birthday.
The former IG, died at the Reddington Hospital in Lagos, on Thursday.
Balogun was recently installed as the Oluomo of Igbomina in Ila-Orangun at the palace of the Orangun of Ila, Alayeluwa, Oba Wahab Oyedotun, Bibire II.
It was gathered that chieftaincy installation ceremony was highly attended by all the first-class Igbomina traditional rulers in Kwara and Osun states.
Balogun was appointed Nigeria’s 11th Indigenous Inspector-General of Police on March 6, 2002, and was retired on January 17, 2005.
Reports say that was the 19th IGP, since 1930, when Britons were appointed as Inspector General of Police.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday extended his condoles to the family, friends and associates, mourning the death of former Inspector-General of Police (IGP).
The President also mourns with the Nigeria Police Force, an institution Balogun spent the better part of his life serving.
According to the President, during Tafa Balogun’s tenure as IGP, he did his utmost to ensure that the police performed its statutory responsibilities under a democratic dispensation.
He added that Balogun was reputed for boosting the morale of officers and men in the Force stressing that those who served under him acknowledged his efforts.
In a statement, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Friday, stated that Buhari’s thought are with the Osun State people and the government.
“President Buhari’s thoughts are with the family, the government and people of Osun State, as well as colleagues and former colleagues of the deceased police chief
“He prays for the peaceful repose of the soul of the departed.”The statement said.
