The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu says the Nigeria Police did very well in 2019/2020. His statement is coming despite many security challenges besetting the country.
According to
the IGP, when his administration came in, there were many issues related to
banditry and kidnappings, especially along the Abuja-Kaduna road, a challenge
which he claims his men have quashed.
“Apart from
the insurgency that is being successfully dealt with in the northeast, there
were issues in the north-central in terms of farmers-herders conflicts and even
kidnappings.
“We re-strategized,
created an operation, Puff Adder. We retrained our Special Forces, we
identified police officers that have been in the theatre of operations in the
northeast before they went and came back.
“We retrained
them and sent them to the field. So we were able to succeed in bringing down to
a very low level of kidnapping and banditry,” the police boss stated.
Speaking on
Amotekun and other security outfits, the Police Chief said the constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria indicates that there should be only one Police
Force.
He said, any
other organisation or any other arrangements that deal with prevention of
crimes, passing information, creating of intelligence is just supporting the
activities of the Nigeria Police”.
IGP Adamu was
of the opinion that every other security outfit set up to work with the police,
should not bear arms as to avoid indiscriminate killings.
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