Former Inspector General of Police, Mustafa Adebayo Balogun, popularly known as Tafa Balogun, is dead.
He is reported to have died at Reddington Hospital in Lagos
The late Mustafa Adebayo Balogun was born 25 August 1947 in Ila Orangun, Osun State.
He was the Inspector General of Police, IGP, between 2002 and 2005, before he was forced into submitting his letter of resignation to former President Olusegun Obasanjo because of widespread allegations of corruption against him
Prior to that time, Balogun was Police Commissioner in Delta, Rivers and Abia States, respectively. He was also an Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, in charge of Zone 1 Kano.
On April 4, 2005, Balogun was arraigned at the Federal High Court, Abuja by the economic and financial crime commission, EFCC under Nuhu Ribadu on charges involving about N13bn obtained through money laundering, theft and other sources.
As the case progressed in and out of court, he asked for plea bargain in exchange to return some money and property; nevertheless, he got six months sentence, the greatest part of which was spent on a sick bed at the National Hospital in Abuja.