IGP disbands police monitoring units in Lagos, Port Harcourt, gives reason
- IGP Usman Alkali Baba has announced some adjustments to policing two Nigerian states
- The police boss explains why he ordered the changes in some monitoring satellite offices
- Police formations in the southeast zone have come under attacks from unknown gunmen
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The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP monitoring satellite offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt.
The Punch reported that the police boss gave the order after Nigerians complained that the officers in the units were harassing them and operating beyond their briefs.
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He made the disclosure on Thursday, April 15, at his maiden meeting with command police commissioners and zonal Assistant Inspector-General (AIG)'s in Abuja.
Baba said the disbanded units will be re-organised.
The Cable reported that the IGP took the action 24 hours after he met with Musiliu Smith, chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), to discuss ways of increasing the efficiency of the police force.
Meanwhile, IGP Baba has disclosed that the security situation in the southeast and south-south geopolitical zones in Nigeria is critical to his tenure.
The Punch reported that Baba disclosed this on Friday, April 9, in Abuja at the opening of a meeting with police strategic commanders in the zones.
Legit.ng gathered that he said the meeting was aimed at discussing security issues affecting the two regions of the country. Baba noted that after the meeting, the commanders would go back to their zones to implement the outcome of the meeting.
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In another report, Daily Sun stated that some unknown gunmen have killed three police operatives in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital.
According to the report, the operatives were shot while on duty at about 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 14 along Nwezenyi road in the state capital.
The officers who sustained bullet wounds during the attack were later confirmed dead by doctors at the Alex Ekwueme Federer University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki. Commissioner for internal security and border peace, Stanley Okoroemegha, confirmed the incident.
Source: Legit.ng
