President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the retiring Assistant Inspector General of Police, Garba Umar as a Senior Security Adviser on International Police Cooperation and counter-terrorism in the office of the Minister of Police Affairs.

The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement said the appointment is to enable Nigeria keep the important position and make way for him to complete his nationally beneficial tenure as an Executive Member of the International Police Organization, INTERPOL.

He added that President Buhari took note of the fact that during his tenure as a member of the Executive Committee, AIG Umar assisted Nigeria in many ways, with the hope that in the remaining one year.