BOKO HARAM: Dambazau directs IGP, NSCDC chief to relocate to North East

Interior Minister, Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Wednesday directed the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, and the Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Muhammadu, to relocate to the North East.

The minister said that the two security chiefs should relocate to the troubled region of North East to liaise with the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole and governors of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states to see that security personnel are deployed to all schools in the liberated areas of the states.

The directive is contained a series of message on the Presidency Twitter handle.

The statement read, “The Min of Interior has directed the IG of Police and the Commandant General of NSCDC to relocate to the northeast and liaise with the theatre commander of #OpLafiyaDole and Govs of Yobe, Borno & Adamawa to ensure deployment of personnel to all schools in liberated areas in the states.

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“The minister said that the directive has become necessary to forestall a re-occurrence of the attack on innocent school children.”

This is coming as the whereabouts of the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Dapchi, Yobe State nine days ago are not yet known.

It is still unclear how the IGP will handle the new directive, as an earlier directive from President Muhammadu Buhari last month had ordered him to relocate to Benue State, following the killing of over 70 people people in Guma and Logo Local Government Areas in the state by suspected herdsmen, and the it tension it generated in the state.

 

 

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