The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has deployed a Tactical Operation Unit, comprising the Police Mobile Force, the Counter-Terrorism Unit, with the back-up of an 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 to Arepo/Ibafo is to ensure that normalcy returns to the area in record time.
He also said the Nigeria Police Force will not watch any criminal group take the law into their hands.
He therefore authorized the Unit to deal decisively with anyone who constitutes himself an enemy of the State, while asking law-abiding citizens of the area to return home and go about their normal businesses.
It would be recalled that Arepo and Ibafo in Ogun State have for some time now been in the news for the wrong reasons due to anti-social behaviours of miscreants.
Pipeline vandals in the two communities have been on the rampage, killing several persons, including security personnels.
In another development, the Nigeria Police Force has arrested one Aloysius Ebiniko, said to be the kingpin of the armed gang that abducted and murdered Colonel Samaila Inusa on March 27, 2016 in Kaduna, Kaduna State.
The arrest of Aloysius Ebiniko was made possible as a result of a credible technical intelligence employed by the Police after a confessional statement of a member of the gang earlier arrested.
Ebiniko will soon be arraigned in court as those earlier arrested in connection with the crime had been arraigned and are remanded in prison custody.
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