After rejecting a bribe of $200,000, CSP Daniel Amah has been given a special promotion to the position of Assistant Commissioner of Police by the Police Service Commission (PSC) (ACP).
This was revealed in a statement issued by the Commission’s spokeswoman, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, on Friday in Abuja.
According to Ogugua, the police officer was also given N1 million by the PSC as a reward and motivation for upholding the police’s integrity.
During the 4th National Summit on Reducing Corruption in the Public Sector, President Muhammadu Buhari recently presented Amah with the 2022 Public Service Integrity Award.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and Independent Corruption Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) worked together to organise the event (JAMB).
Amah exemplified the virtue and honesty of a respectable Police officer, according to PSC Chairman and former Supreme Court Justice Clara Ogunbiyi.
According to Ogunbiyi, the prize and special promotion would raise the morale of all police personnel, encouraging them to always act honourably.
“On 24th April 2022, a matter was reported to Amah that a suspect, one Mr. Ali Zaki, had convinced Bureau De Change Operators that he had 750,000 dollars which he could sell to them at the rate of N430, so he could get the equivalent, which was N322,500,000.
“After a bank staff confirmed the availability of the money at the bank to the victim, the transaction took place.
“However, the suspect arranged with armed robbers to track and rob the victim while the money was being transported.
“When the matter was reported to the Police Division in Kano State where SP Daniel Amah was the DPO (Divisional Police Officer), it commenced investigations.
“In the course of the investigation, they traced the principal suspect, Mr Zaki, who offered 200,000 dollars to Amah to bury the case through a bank staff.
“The offer was rejected, the bank staff was promptly apprehended, and which also led to the arrest of the suspect. The 200,000 dollars was recovered and registered as an exhibit,” Ogunbiyi explained.
Amah was also given the 2022 Public Service Integrity Award by the ICPC last month.
The new ACP was regarded as a brilliant public servant who, despite all obstacles, refused to be compromised and corrupted by the ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye.
“We are particularly delighted that the Awardee is from the Nigeria Police, an institution often much derided, maligned and under-appreciated.
“In 2021, one of the Public Service Integrity Awardees was also a police officer.
“We commend the Inspector General of Police for producing these beacons of light, in a desert of despair,” Owasanoye stated at the anti-corruption summit, which was held in Abuja.
Amah, a native of Plateau State’s Jos East, enlisted in the Nigerian Police Force in 2002 as a Cadet Inspector.
He is currently the DPO of the Bompai Police Station in Kano State’s Nasarawa Local Government Area.
