Insecurity: IGP Holds Crucial Meeting With CPs Over 2023 General Elections
- The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) is leaving no stone unturned ahead of the forthcoming presidential elections in 2023
- The inspector-general of police, Usman Baba-Alkali summoned an emergency meeting with all the police commissioners across the federation
- It was gathered that the meeting was summoned over the incessant attack on the independent national electoral commission (INEC) offices in the southeast
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FCT, Abuja - Usman Baba-Alkali, the inspector-general of police has summoned all the commissioners of police for an emergency meeting at the force headquarters in Abuja.
As reported by the Daily Trust newspaper, the meeting is currently ongoing behind closed doors.
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Legit.ng gathered that the meeting is up on the heels of the incessant attacks on the incessant attacks on some INEC offices across the federation.
Also present at the strategic meetings include Assistant Inspectors General of Police(AIGs), and Deputy Inspectors General of Police(DIGs), among other top officers.
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Although the agenda of the meeting was yet to be made public and it was gathered that the meeting was convened by the top cop following a series of attacks on INEC offices in the country, particularly in the South East.
Biggest ever bomb factory uncovered in southeast as police react
In another development, the biggest bomb factory known to Nigeria has been discovered by operatives of the Ebonyi state police command.
The police said that the factory was discovered by its personnel in Ebonyi state after a tip-off from an informant.
According to the police, two members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Eastern Security Network who run the factory were killed in a gun battle.
Tension erupts in top southeast state as gunmen invade community, kill one
Meanwhile, Ebonyi state, one of the top southeast states in Nigeria has become the hotbed of a series of attacks in recent times.
This is as unknown gunmen have continued to trouble the peace of residents in the state as well as unsettle their businesses.
Apart from burning the INEC facilities in recent times in the state, unknown gunmen have continued to invade communities and burn down houses.
Source: Legit.ng
