IGP Arase Directs Tight Security Ahead Of May 29 Inauguration

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Thursday, May 21st, 2015

By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – In order to have a hitch-free transition to another administration next week Friday, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, has directed the Zonal Assistant Inspectors-General and Commands’ Commissioners of Police to beef up security around key and vulnerable points across the country.

The Police Boss, in a statement issued in Abuja, by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, stated the approach was necessary to check possible plans by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents on possible violent and coordinated attacks on various installations and public places during the transition.

In achieving this, IGP Arase directed that critical infrastructures such as filling stations, major hotels, National and State Houses of Assembly, Eagle Square, Abuja, and other public places should be protected ahead of the May 29, 2015 the handover date.

He urged members of the public to sustain the collaboration with the Force officers as well as other security agencies to stamp out crimes, including terrorism.

In a related development, IGP Arase warned policemen against involving in land dispute, saying such cases if happened, should be referred to the court of law or to the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

At a meeting with Police Inspectors and other top officers in the Force Headquarters, Abuja, Thursday, Mr Arase cautioned police officers against handling bags for VIPs, adding this was not part of their job schedule as security personnel.

He asserted that any policeman, particularly men of the Special Protection Unit, caught degrading himself would be severely punished.

IGP Arase informed that a total of 36,599 policemen would be promoted soon.