In a video now viral on the internet, the officers were reportedly deployed to Katsina State in January and the special duty was supposed to last for three months.
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The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Iskilu Akinsanya, disclosed this on Monday after reviewing the performance of the corps in the state in January.
A statement by the spokesman of the Police Force Headquarters, Deputy Commissioner of Police Frank Mba, said the operation was necessitated by actionable intelligence linking terror and criminal elements in the super camp to series of terror-related violence, kidnappings, gun-running, cattle rustling and other heinous crimes across the country
The Imo Task Force on Illicit Drugs and Other Related Matters has impounded a truck load of cannabis worth N20 million, according to the Commander, Ijeoma Igboanusi.
The personnel comprised of Police Mobile Force Units, Counter Terrorism Unit, the Special Protection Unit, the Anti Bomb Squad, Conventional Policemen, the Armament Unit, personnel of FCIID and the Sniffer dogs section.
Idris said this during a meeting he held with Squadron, Counter Terrorism Unit, Special Protection Unit and Commanders at the Force Headquarters in Abuja
Idris made the disclosure at a meeting with Commanders of the Police Mobile Force, Special Protection Unit and the Counter Terrorism Unit in Abuja