[4] On assumption of office as the Inspector-General of Police, he worked to provide secure environment for the actualization of the President’s vision of placing Nigeria among the world's top 20 economies by the year 2020.
[8] In November 2008 and again in February 2009, the Chairman of the House Committee on Police Affairs, Abdul Ahmed Ningi, asked Kiro to provide details of the money recovered from the former Inspector-General of Police Tafa Balogun, a request that he passed on to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Farida Waziri.
President Yar’Adua ordered an interim report to ensure that the panel was not compromised or influenced during a planned visit abroad.
Although Abdulkadir Abacha was never caught, President Yar’Adua congratulated Okiro on his retirement at age 60 in July 2009, for his achievements while in the IGP Office.
The entire Nigeria Police Force will continue to eulogize, appreciate and give ample reasons to remember him for all that he enacted, stood for, and his inherent principles of being celebrated but yet a benevolent tough cop.
Speaking in August 2009 after a farewell parade in his honour in Abuja, Okiro spoke of problems with the system where the IGP does not have the authority to fulfill his responsibilities.