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Military · Buhari/Babangida1985 — 1986· 6th indigenous IGP

Etim Inyang

Cross-River-born officer; IGP for the final months of the Buhari regime and the first year of Babangida.

The record

Etim Okon Inyang was IGP for the final stretch of the Buhari military regime and into the first year of the Babangida administration that took power in the 27 August 1985 palace coup.

He was the first IGP from the South-South.

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.