IGP ORDERS POLICE CHIEFS TO RESTORE ORDER AND NORMALCY TO NIGERIA
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate mobilisation of all police operational assets and resources to restore order and normalcy to the country.
He ordered all Police Commissioners and AIGs to ensure they bring an end to the wanton violence, killings, looting and destruction of public and private property in the country.
Adamu gave the order to all Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs), Commissioners of Police (CPs), Heads of Police Operational Units, Squadron and Base Commanders in charge of Zonal/State/FCT Commands, the Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorism Unit and the Special Protection Unit.
Frank Mba, Force PRO announced this in a statement on Saturday, October 24, in Abuja.
He said Adamu ordered the senior police officers to reclaim the public space from criminal elements masquerading as protesters in some parts of the country.
The Police Chief specifically ordered the Commissioners of Police and heads of police formations in the various states to mobilise their men and work in sync with the Command CPs in the areas where they were domiciled, to dominate the public space, and ensure peace and safety in the affected areas.
“The IGP, while noting that enough is enough to all acts of lawlessness, disruption of public peace and order, and wanton violence which have resulted to indiscriminate looting of shops, malls and warehouses, damage to property and loss of lives in some parts of the country, further directs the police strategic managers to personally lead and coordinate the operation and use all legitimate means, to halt a further slide into lawlessness and brigandage,” the statement said.
The IGP, however, warned troublemakers not to test the collective will of the nation by coming out to cause any further breakdown of law and order.
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