Go Back to Your Bosses: IGP Returns Policemen Withdrawn by Predecessor to Politicians, Others
- Police officers withdrawn from politicians, businessmen and others have been restored by IGP Usman Baba
- According to a report by a reputable media organization, policemen were seen guarding private and residential buildings
- This comes as some states are facing different security situations that requires the presence of all the police they can get
In what will surprise Nigerians given the acute shortage of manpower in the country, police personnel have been ordered back to start guarding politicians and the elites.
The order was given by the inspector-general of police, Usman Baba.
Recall the former police chief, Mohammed Adamu, withdrew them from politicians, businessmen and others who were not constitutionally entitled to such privilege.
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According to Punch Newspaper, the withdrawn personnel had been reinstated to guarding private citizens.
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This comes in spite of reports that bandits and other hoodlums outnumbered the police by a wide margin, Reuben Abati added.
A police officer attached to a real estate mogul was quoted to have said:
“Most of the withdrawn policemen have returned to their principals. I was not affected by the withdrawal order but my colleagues who were withdrawn have been reinstated after their principals went to the force headquarters to sort out the issue.”
Where are the arrested bandits, terrorists: No prosecution, imprisonment, former Senator laments
Meanwhile, Senator Seidu Muhammed Dansadau who represented Zamfara at the National Assembly between 1999 and 2007 has lamented that Nigerian government have always failed to prosecute or imprison arrested bandits or terrorists.
He said;
"I think the main factor responsible for these protracted crimes is the fact no sanction has been administered on the perpetrators arrested. There is this Ali Kachalla who is one of the major bandits. He was once arrested and the police even paraded him. How manage he wasn’t arraigned before court of law so that appropriate punishment is given? We have a large number of bandits like that."
Many killed as fleeing bandits run into Military camp in Niger
Legit.ng had earlier reported that it was the end of the road for scores of armed bandits fleeing the ongoing military operation in Zamfara and Katsina states as they were neutralised by soldiers at Maganda village near Allawa in Shiroro local government area of Niger state.
The bandits were trying to escape through the notorious Alawa thick forest on Friday, September 10, when they ran into the military camp stationed at Alawa.
A gun battle ensued and after several hours, the security operatives came out victorious. Scores of the armed criminals did not live to tell the story while others managed to escape into the forest with bullets wounds.
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