[2] He was later reinstated by the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida regime after being cleared of all charges, and was given his full benefits and retirement rank.

[1] Faruk published a pamphlet in 1988 that attacked the national population control program that the Nigerian military government was advocating.

[4] Faruk supported establishing a commodity marketing board to fix or control the prices of produce and animals such as cows, goats and sheep.

In a 2006 press interview, he said that the poor pay and equipment of the police could not be justified, and was the cause of the state of insecurity in the country.

[7] In July 2009, his third son, Police Superintendent Abdulaziz Faruk, was killed during violence in Maiduguri triggered by the Boko Haram extreme Islamist sect.