Browsing: Solomon Arase

To achieve this, the Force Management Team has deployed the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Department of Operations, Sotonye Wakama, to move with a team of intelligence officers to the area for the need assessment and other scooping activities

Arase said: “The Force has deployed 3,000 officers as holding forces to the liberated areas in the North East with the task of restoring civil authority

The elections will take place on Saturday

The warning, according to a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, followed the observation by the Nigeria Police Force leadership of the increasing resort to acts of brigandage by sets of misguided individuals who apparently are hiding under the cloak of MASSOB and IPOB to threaten national security and public peace in parts of South East and some other states

The Inspector-General of Police also cautioned against the use of fireworks such as knockout, bangers and other explosives during the celebrations as they could cause distraction that may further heighten the fear of insecurity

Lamorde has been accused of withholding over N1 trillion recovered by the EFCC from a former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, and the late Governor of Bayelsa State, Dipreye Alamieyeseigha

In addition, 4,969 personnel of the Police Mobile Force drawn from different squadrons across the country have been deployed to strategic places to complement the 11,000 conventional Police manpower and other security agents already deployed for the election

Arase made the disclosure at the inauguration of “Re-branded SARS” and newly-established Complaint Response Unit of the police in Abuja

Arase noted that against the backdrop of current security challenges in the country, the Police only issued advisory notice directed predominantly to the states where there are insurgency

The Eagle Online learnt on Friday that the transfers are with immediate effect

The group said it would go a long way in checking the orgy of violence already being unleashed on innocent Bayelsans by cultists allegedly working for the All Progressives Congress

This was contained in a statement issued by the Force Spokesperson, Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police, Olabisi Kolawole, in Abujaon Monday

Part of the proceeds from the ransom received from the Falae family before he was freed was also said to have been recovered from the kidnappers, who are believed to be Fulani herdsmen

Preliminary investigations revealed the bomb blasts were detonated by two suicide bombers – a male and a female.
Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police has ordered massive stop-and-search activities in and around the Federal Capital to Territory, Abuja

Falae was kidnapped four days ago

The police boss promised that the Nigeria Police would provide robust security throughout the period of the festival

It would be recalled that the Federal Government had in 2012 listed the categories of persons entitled to use siren

The outgoing Commissioner of Police, Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, disclosed this at the inauguration of a newly-renovated police barrack in Lokoja

The redeployment, according to a statement from the Force Headquarters on Friday, followed the vacancies created from the recent retirement and promotions of senior police officers

A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Commissioner of Police Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the action was in Arase’s bid to further reposition the Force for greater efficiency