Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta

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| office1 = 7th Inspector General of Police

| term_start1 =1986

| term_end1 =1990

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| predecessor3 = Etim Inyang

| successor3 =Aliyu Attah

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| birth_place = Jimeta, Nigeria

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| party = Non partisan

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Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta (15 April 1937 - 21 January 2021){{cite web

|url = https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/01/21/ex-igp-gambo-jimeta-is-dead-buhari-mourns/

|work = PM News Nigeria

|title = Breaking: Ex-IGP Gambo Jimeta is dead, Buhari mourns

|author = PM News Nigeria

|date = January 21, 2021

|accessdate = 2021-01-21

}} was a former Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force. He was appointed in 1986 to succeed Etim Inyang and was succeeded by Aliyu Attah in 1990.{{cite web|url=http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/04/abba-police-go-police-come/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427012936/http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/04/abba-police-go-police-come/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 27, 2015|title =Abba Police go Police come|work=dailyindependentnig.com|accessdate=6 May 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.the-nigeria.com/2014/05/list-of-inspector-general-of-police-in.html?m=1|title=List of Inspector General of Police in Nigeria|work=the-nigeria.com|accessdate=6 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234635/http://www.the-nigeria.com/2014/05/list-of-inspector-general-of-police-in.html?m=1|archive-date=30 July 2018|url-status=dead}} He was later Coordinator of National Security to President of Nigeria Ibrahim Babangida.

Early life

He was born in Jimeta on 15 April 1937.{{cite web

|url = https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/01/21/ex-igp-gambo-jimeta-is-dead-buhari-mourns/

|work = PM News Nigeria

|title = Breaking: Ex-IGP Gambo Jimeta is dead, Buhari mourns

|author = PM News Nigeria

|date = January 21, 2021

|accessdate = 2021-01-21

}}

Education

Gambo as he was popularly called, attended Jimeta Elementary School (1947–49) and Yola Middle School (1950–55) for his early education.

Thereafter, he went to Bauchi Provincial Secondary School (1956–58) and Government College Keffi (1958–59), before attending Nigeria Police College Kaduna (1959) and Police College Ikeja (1959).

He also attended Detective Training School, Wakefield, UK (1962), Bramhill Police College UK (1963), International Police Academy, Washington DC, USA (1980) and National Police Academy, Cairo, Egypt.{{cite web

|url = https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/01/21/ex-igp-gambo-jimeta-is-dead-buhari-mourns/

|work = PM News Nigeria

|title = Breaking: Ex-IGP Gambo Jimeta is dead, Buhari mourns

|author = PM News Nigeria

|date = January 21, 2021

|accessdate = 2021-01-21

}}

Career

After leaving the police college, Gambo began his career as a Cadet sub-Inspector. In 1963, he was promoted to Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). He became a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in 1967 and full superintendent in 1969.

In 1972, he was promoted to Chief Superintendent of Police and became an Assistant Commissioner of Police in 1974. He became Commissioner of Police in 1977 and served in Lagos, where he got national fame as a crack police officer dealing with robberies in the state.

In 1982, he was promoted AIG and transferred to Force Criminal Investigation Division, Alagbon Close, Lagos. He became a DIG in 1984 and Inspector General of Police in 1986.{{cite web

|url = https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/01/21/ex-igp-gambo-jimeta-is-dead-buhari-mourns/

|work = PM News Nigeria

|title = Breaking: Ex-IGP Gambo Jimeta is dead, Buhari mourns

|author = PM News Nigeria

|date = January 21, 2021

|accessdate = 2021-01-21

}}

Post-retirement

In 2011, the then President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy.{{cite web

|url = https://www.latestnigeriannews.com/news/68429/chad-johnson-talks-madden-challenge-finalists-joe-burrow-more-in-br-exclusive.html

|work = Latest Nigerian News

|title = THE GAMBO GAMBLE

|author = Tribune

|date = October 4, 2011

|accessdate = 2021-01-22

}}