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  • IGP deploys 500 mobile policemen in Aba

    IGP deploys 500 mobile policemen in Aba

    The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has deployed over 500 Police Mobile Force men to Aba to restore peace in the troubled city.

    The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Operations, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, on a duty tour to Aba Friday said the I-G wants  peace  restored to Abia State immediately, hence the deployment of the mobile policemen who had assumed duty in Aba.

    “You can see that we have placed security and that the whole place is quiet and our men are on patrol,” he said.

    “For now we are still monitoring, there is no problem. We are on top of the situation.

    “We are working in tandem with other agencies and they are cooperating with us.”

    The city was embroiled in a clash between soldiers and IPOB members in Aba between Monday and Tuesday, prompting Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to impose a curfew on the city.

  • Police vow to apprehend killers of ASP Onwumere

    Police vow to apprehend killers of ASP Onwumere

    The Commissioner of Police in Imo state, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, said they have intensified investigation into the murder of ASP Celestine Onwumere.

    Lakanu, who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Owerri on Thursday, added that those behind the murder would soon be exposed.

    “There would be no hiding place for the murderers. They would be tracked down and brought to book. The killers of the officer have stepped on the lion’s tail.

    “We have stepped up our investigation into the killing with a view to bringing the perpetrators of the crime and their accomplices to book”, he said.

    Onwumere, who would have retired in Dec. 2016, was killed at the premises of Mbieri Police Station by gunmen last week.

  • Imo Police clampdown on cultists

    Imo Police clampdown on cultists

    …parades 39 suspects

    Imo State Police Command on Monday recorded a major breakthrough in its fight against cultism with the arrest of 39 suspected cultists.

    Parading the suspects at the Command Headquarters, the State Commissioner, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, disclosed that the suspects were arrested at different points in the state during their initiation ceremony.

    According to him, “considering the spate of  cultism in the state and following a tactically coordinated operation by operatives of the State Police Command through credible source stormed the initiation party organized by the cultists for new members within the Nekede area of Owerri”.

    He continued that, “on the receipt of the information, covert operatives of the Command were promptly mobilized and dispatched to the area to monitor the situation. Notable flashpoints within Nekede and environs namely, ‘South Africa ‘, ‘Shrine Tree Square’ and Pentagon Bar Umuofocha’ were surrounded and cordoned off by ever ready operatives.  As a result, 39 suspected cultists who converged in the aforementioned location for initiation and other cult activities were rounded up.

    “The suspects have made useful statements confessing their membership of the Aiye confraternity.  Thorough investigation has commenced with the view of charging the suspects to court accordingly “.

  • Civil society group commends police on Imo re-run election

    A civil society group, New Nigerian Youth Organisation, has lauded the Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, for the violence-free re-run election in the state.

    The President of the group, Mr Marcel Iweajunwa, made the commendation on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.

    Iweajunwa, an observer during the election, was reacting to the outcome of the poll, saying that the outcome proved many speculators wrong.

    He said though there were minor skirmishes by party supporters, the presence of the police dominated the areas to ensure peace and orderliness.

    “I commend Lakanu and his team for ensuring and checkmating both pre- and post-election violence.

    “There were predictions of post-election violence by supporters of aggrieved candidates, but the commissioner was able to checkmated all forms of violence during and after the election,” he said.

    Also speaking, the traditional ruler of Umulogho in Obowo local government, Eze Ngozi Uwalaka, said the election was the most peaceful in the area since 1999.

    “In the previous elections, politicians accused the police of compromise but what we witnessed during the July 23 election was a different police ready to work,” he said.

    Uwalaka said the commissioner and his team from Abuja were on ground till the end of the election.

    He urged the citizens of the state to give total support to the commissioner in his effort to checkmate crime and ensure peace in the state.