Arepo: IG deploys policemen, helicopter to flush out vandals
The acting Inspector-General of Police,
Ibrahim Idris, has deployed the Tactical Operation Unit, comprising of
the Police Mobile Force, the Counter-Terrorism Unit and the Air
Surveillance Team to flush out vandals and other criminal elements
operating in Arepo and Ibafo areas of Ogun State.
Idris said the deployment of the unit in the areas on Thursday was to ensure that normalcy returns to them in record time.
A statement on Friday in Abuja by the
Force Public Relations Officer, Don Awunah, quoted the IG as saying that
the Nigeria Police Force would not watch any criminal group(s) take law
into their hands, adding that he had authorised the team to deal
decisively with anyone who constitutes himself as an enemy of the state.
He also asked residents of the areas who
had fled to return home and go about their normal businesses as the
police would deal with the criminals.
In another development, the police have
arrested one Aloysius Ebiniko, said to be the kingpin of the armed gang
that abducted and murdered Col. Samaila Inusa on March 27, 2016 in
Kaduna, Kaduna State.
The police said Ebiniko’s arrest was
made possible by credible technical intelligence employed by the Force
after a confessional statement of a member of the gang earlier arrested.
The Force explained that the suspect
would soon be arraigned in court as those earlier arrested in connection
with the crime had been arraigned and remanded in prison.
Meanwhile, contrary to reports that
Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Shuaibu Gambo, was queried over
the shoddy investigation into the abduction of a teenager, Ese Oruru,
our correspondent gathered that it was AIG Yabo Tambari that was
queried.
Findings indicate that Tambari was the
AIG in charge of Zone 1, Kano during the incident, while AIG Gambo was
the officer who rescued Ese after he was directed by the Force
headquarters to take over the case from Tambari.
A police source said, “It was Gambo that
actually rescued Ese after he was directed to take over the
investigation from Tambari under whose watch the incident happened.
Gambo led the operation for the rescue of the teenager after the
investigation was bungled by the officers that handled it earlier.”
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