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  • Police to deploy dogs, horses to INEC headquarters, collation centres

    The Force Animal Branch (FAB) of the Police has disclosed that dogs and horses will be deployed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters and collation centres during the election.

    The animals are expected to help control the crowd that will be present at various locations where election duties will be taking place.

    Speaking during a meeting in Abuja on Monday with Officers in Charge (OCs) of FAB on their roles during the election, the Commissioner of Police FAB, CP Aishatu Abubakar said dogs and horses are more efficient in crowd control operation.

    She said: “We want to use dogs to control crowd because they are very effective. When you are confronted with issues of crowd, ten to 20 policemen cannot do what one or two dogs will do. Once a dog stands, people will behave themselves. Also for the mounted troop, a man on a horse can easily control crowd. So, the animals will be deployed to INEC headquarters and collation centres because that is where we have large number of crowd.

    “We also have veterinary doctors to support and ensure that all animals are safe.”

    On whether the animals will not scare people away and prevent them from voting, she said: “We expect understanding from members of the public. Our dogs are well trained and they won’t bite indiscriminately. If there is a problem or the dog is suspicious of somebody, that is when they will come close. We expect the public to understand that the dogs and horses will be there to protect lives and property.

    “To better reposition the department for efficient service delivery, the branch will be distributing to all its formations across the counter about 500 bags of K9 food, 1000 different categories of K9 operational gears, over 200 veterinary clinics equipment ranging from examination tables, stretcher, surgical, ambulatory and necropsy kits, 2500 variety of veterinary drugs and consumables.

    “The Mounted section of the department will be distributing over 600 bags of the horse feed, guinea corn, millet and 500 varieties of mounted operational gears.”

    The Deputy Inspector of Police in charge of Operations, DIG Abdulmajid Ali also urged the personnel of the department to conduct themselves well as they will be in public eye during the election.

    Ali who stated that the personnel will be monitored, cautioned them not to sell the food and other equipment that will be deployed.

    He said: “I want to remind you of the forthcoming election. Your performance will be monitored and we want to see how you will perform and how the items deployed will be utilized and not sold. All items deployed must be utilized and used justifiably because we want the election to be free and fair.”

  • Police to youths: No permission, no Christmas carnival

    Police to youths: No permission, no Christmas carnival

    …Massive deployment across Lagos, Ogun

    As the yuletide draws near, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police  (AIG) in charge of Zone II, Abdulmajid Ali has advised youths resident in Lagos and Ogun states to ensure they get approvals before holding carnivals, rallies.

    He stated this Wednesday at the zonal headquarters, Onikan, noting that there would be aggressive patrols across the states.

    Ali, who spoke through the zonal spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, a Superintendent of Police  (SP) disclosed that the command would massively deploy policemen before, during and after the festive period so as to forestall criminal activities.

    He warned that organising carnivals workout due approvals would not be tolerated, urging youths to ensure they operate within the ambit of the law.

    He said: “The command has sent out special teams to see how we can tackle major challneges in the zone including kidnapping, armed robbery, land graining and cultism. We know that the festive period is around the corner and we would not take it lightly with anyone who wants to jeopardise the security arrangement we have on ground.

    “We are sending a note of warning that zone two would not be conducive for criminals. We are using this opportunity to tell youths to ensure they get necessary approvals before having carnivals. We do not want a situation were they will block the roads and extort Nigerians. That’s tantamount to robbery.

    “Some of them even drink and have bottles and other dangerous weapons with them. We would any of them caught for armed robbery. They must respect and act within the ambit of the law. We urged them especially fun seekers to respect the law.

    “You are going to see presence of policemen all over the place.  There would be appreciable presence of police across the states. Frequent patrols, stop and search and other security checks. We want Nigerians to respect our men doing their jobs. If they go beyond their bounds, we have already rolled out the numbers to call. But residents should assist them in their quest to save lives and properties.”

  • Ogun killings: Police parade four suspected militants

    The Police on Tuesday arrested four persons suspected to be members of a militant group responsible for the savage attacks on Ogun communities.

    Several people have been killed in the attacks on communities, while a police corporal was abducted recently by gunmen suspected to be militants.

    The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, who paraded the suspects, gave their names as Ifeanyi Eze, Aijoku Ezekiel, Shobijo Uriel, and another identified as Pere.

    Ali said the quartet were members of the suspected Niger Delta militants that attacked a team of Police Mobile Force and Operatives of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) in Ikorodu and Ibafo some weeks back.

    He noted that during the attack, a police corporal attached to the Ibafo Divisional Police Headquarters, Ogun State, was abducted with his AK – 47 riffle.

    He said the policeman has not been found.

    The police commissioner recalled that suspected militants recently attacked over five communities in Ogun – Arepo, Warewa, Imushin, Igbo – Elepete and Ajegunle in Ogijo/Sagamu and Ibafo area, saying the suspects had made useful statements to the police.

  • Militants’ invasion: Security beefed up in Ogun communities

    Militants’ invasion: Security beefed up in Ogun communities

    Following militants’ invasion of Imushin, Elepete, Ita-Oluwo and other communities in Ogun State, security has been beefed up in the general area.

    This is just as the Lagos Police Commissioner Fatai Owoseni, his Ogun counterpart, Abdulmajid Ali and senior army and naval officers Monday visited the affected communities to see things for themselves.

    The Nation gathered that troops deployed to Operation AWATSE have been dispatched to patrol the areas to avoid a repeat of the massacre that took place on Saturday.

    It was learnt that the security chiefs had a meeting with the Imushin monarch, Oba Taiwo Adebunmi Gbamboshe.

    Confirming that a joint operation has commenced in the area, the Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, Commodore Abraham Adaji said it was to ensure the militants do not have field day.

    “Yes, there is increased security presence in the area. Our personnel deployed to Operation AWATSE are working in collaboration with the police to keep the affected areas safe and ensure that the armed men do not have field day,” he said.

  • Police arrest fake lawyer after 10 years of practice

    Police arrest fake lawyer after 10 years of practice

    The Police in Ogun State have arrested 47 year old man, Mr Ayodele Balogun from Otta in Ado Odo Otta Local Government Area of the state for practicing as a lawyer in the last 10 years without training.

    Ayodele who has been parading himself as a trained lawyer and practicing at the Otta arm of the state Judiciary, was arrested by Detectives attached to the Otta  Division of the Ogun Police Command following complainant that he had duped somebody of N140,000: 00k (One Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira only).

    The Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said while the suspect was being interrogated, a notable legal practitioner in Otta also alerted them of his criminal antecedents and the need to interrogate him extensively.

    Adejobi added that the Police Commissioner, Abdulmajid Ali, who expressed disappointment in the suspect’s alleged involvement in nefarious activities, has vowed to make Ogun State hot for criminals and unscrupulous elements.

    “While the police detectives were on with their interrogation, one of the revered legal practitioners  in the area alerted the police of the suspect’s criminal antecedents and urged the police to widen the scope of their interrogation, hence the confession of Ayodele Balogun, who has been practicing at a popular chamber in otta for a decade, to be a fake legal practitioner.

    “The suspect and others,who might be indicted in the course of police investigation,be charged to court without delay and his (their) details be sent to the Nigerian Bar Association and other concerned groups/bodies for necessary action,” Adejobi said.

  • New AIG for Ogun, Lagos visits Amosun

    New AIG for Ogun, Lagos visits Amosun

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    Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (middle), in a group photograph with Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Bala Hassan (left), Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Police Command, Abdulmajid Ali (2nd right),and Former Consultant to the Governor on Security, Yinka Balogun, a retired Commissioner of Police (right), during a courtesy visit to the governor in Abeokuta

     

    Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (middle), presenting the state's plaque to the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Bala Hassan (left), during a courtesy visit to the governor at his Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, office
    Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (middle), presenting the state’s plaque to the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Bala Hassan (left), during a courtesy visit to the governor in Abeokuta.

  • Terrorism: Police to reactivate intelligence bureau

    As part of measures to contain terrorism and insecurity in the country, the Nigeria police has set up modalities to reactivate its intelligence bureau.

    The new Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone Two, Bala Hassan, made this disclosure on Monday while assuming duties at the headquarters in Lagos.

    Hassan, who was received by the state Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, his Ogun State counterpart, Abdulmajid Ali, as well as other commissioners and senior officers in the zone, said the bureau will help in keeping criminal elements off the zone.

    He noted that aside the continuous collaboration with other security agencies, the police will ensure it generates all necessary intelligence to intercept people with questionable characters before they enter the zone.

    He said: “We are still partnering with other security services. We know that we cannot do it alone. We will partner with the Nigerian Army and the DSS. I will also visit the other military commands, the Nigerian Customs Service and Nigerian Immigration Service.

    “So that when we put our heads together, we will be able to make headway.

    “As for allowing people of questionable characters to invade Lagos, we have the Zonal Intelligence Bureau. These units are replicated in the states as the State Intelligence Bureau.

    “We are going to reactivate that unit so that when we partner other security agencies, it will reduce the influx of such people with questionable characters and people who disrupt the peace of this zone.”

    He vowed to ensure that careless deaths of policemen were reduced to barest minimum, assuring of sustained partnership with the various communities to track down cops’ killers.

     

  • Doctor held for sale of baby in Imo

    The Imo State Police Command yesterday paraded a doctor, Dr Alex Ejiogu, for the alleged abduction and sale of a newborn baby in his maternity at Nekede, Owerri West Local Government Area.

    The mother of the baby, Mrs Eberechukwu Peter, who was delivered of a set of twins, said after being delivered of the babies, she was unconscious but woke up to discover that one of her babies was missing.

    She said the doctor allegedly told her it was one baby.

    Eberechukwu said: “I had a scan when I was pregnant and the result showed that I had a set of twins.”

    The Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, said the doctor allegedly sold one of the babies and told the mother she was delivered of one baby boy.

    But the denied the allegation, claiming that the woman was delivered of one baby.

    Also paraded was a 17-year-old boy, Franklin Njoku for the alleged murder of a four-year-old girl at Uvuru, Aboh Mbaise.

    Ali said the suspect was accommodated by the parents of the little girl for the duration of his school certificate examinations.

    He said the suspect lured the child, Gloria Eze, to a bush where he allegedly murdered her before hanging her body on a palm tree.

    When interviewed, the suspect said he never intended to kill the child.

    Another suspect, Chidi Egeolu, a 32-year-old man from Umuobidike Owerri Eberiri in Orlu allegedly murdered a 24-year-old woman and kidnapped her three-month-old baby.

     

     

  • Mark’s convoy ran into robbers, says police commissioner

    Mark’s convoy ran into robbers, says police commissioner

    •Lawyer decries attack

    Imo State Commissioner of Police Abdulmajid Ali said yesterday that the convoy of Senate President David Mark ran into a robbery and was not the target of the attack, as speculated.

    The convoy of Mark’s advance team was attacked last Thursday on the way to the funeral of the late Richard Anyaehie, a business mogul from Nkwere in Imo State.

    Ali said the attack was a coincidence, as the convoy ran into a robbery gang operating at the boundary between Abia and Enugu states.

    He said although Mark and his ADC were not in the convoy when the incident happened, according to the information gathered, the robbers, on sighting the convoy, shot sporadically in their bid to escape.

    The police boss, who said he fortified security network a few days before the funeral, following a rumour of security threat, said he was surprised to read in the newspapers the next day of the attack on the Senate President.

    “Because of the importance attached to the ceremony, I was there on the eve of the funeral till 3am. Patrol vans were positioned everywhere. I returned with a full squad on the funeral day. The incident never happened,” Ali added.

    A human rights lawyer, Dr. Anthony Agbazuere, has condemned the attack on the convoy of Mark.

    He said the incident signified that the National Assembly had failed the citizens.

    Speaking with The Nation in Umuahia, Agbazuere urged Nigerians to desist from violence and embrace peace and dialogue to ensure a strong democracy and national development.