By Sunny Nwankwo, Umuahia

The Deputy Commissioner of Police Mobile Force in charge of the deployment of Police Mobile Force personnel across the five Southeast states, DCP Aderemi Adeoye has assured that normal policing would soon return to Southeast as the dust generated by #ENDSARS and activities of unknown gunmen in the region begins to die down.

While addressing Mobile Personnel of the force (posted to the state to quell attacks on police stations and formations, government institutions, sister security agencies, and personnel as well as innocent citizens by the unknown gunmen at the Abia State Command Headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital, Adeoye disclosed that he was on an assessment visit to the Mobile Personnel Command of the five Southeast zone to speak to its personnel and to also, monitor the security situation in the zone after the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba launched the Operation Restore Peace in Southeast by the IGP in Enugu, Enugu State.

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According to Adeoye, Mobile Policemen were in Abia State to serve criminal elements justice while ensuring that people of the state go about their normal businesses without fear of molestation.

He reiterated that the launch of Operation Restore Peace seeks to put an end to several attacks, to restore law and order and to ensure that normalcy returns as quickly as possible so that the good people of Abia state and indeed the entire Southeast can resume their normal businesses and normal life.

“We felt like every ordinary citizen on the street that a situation, where life is brutish and short, cannot be accepted as an index of proper living and development and so the President gave the order for the police to intervene and restore normalcy and the inspector general of Police came to Enugu to lunch this Operation, Operation Restore Peace with clear directives and mandate on what is to be done we are happy to observe that the objectives have been archived and the men have kept to the rules of engagement, very professional in the discharge of their duties.

“They have respected fundamental human rights and even when there was an attack on this headquarters the men stood their ground. Two men lost their lives in protecting lives and properties. That was why we observed two-minute silence in the honour of their memory,” he said.