Augustine Ehikioya, Abuja
The Presidency on Saturday gave kudos to the Police for the recent bursting of a child-theft racket in Kano State and fake correctional centers in Kaduna and Katsina states.
President Muhammadu Buhari , urged the force to sustain the good efforts across the country.
The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said in a statement in Abuja that the arrests of the suspected brains behind the racket and fake correctional centres were tallied with his commitment to human rights and dignity of the citizens regardless of their age, religion and ethnicity.
“On torture chambers, in this day and age, no responsible democratic government would tolerate the existence of the torture chambers and physical abuses of inmates in the name of rehabilitation of the victims,” Buhari said.
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He appealed to the public to remain vigilant and assist security agencies in crime prevention and control by reporting the existence of criminal activities around their communities.
“The sharing of human intelligence is everybody’s responsibility in order to make our society safe and this government is ever committed to supporting the police to be more effective in the performance of its duties through proper funding and motivation of its personnel,” he said
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