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Kaduna Kidnappings: IGP orders mass transfer, redeploys AIG

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8 years ago

April 5, 2016

Worried by the increasing wave of Kidnappings in Kaduna state, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has ordered the mass transfer of police officers that has spent six years and above in the state to other police commands.

The IGP, who ordered corresponding replacement for those transfered, also directed the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 7, Ballah Nasarawa, to relocate to Kaduna State to tackle the incessant kidnappings and other violent crimes in the state.

It would be recalled that Kaduna has lately become the hotbed of kidnapping, leading to the death of two of the victims.

Within the period under review, those abducted included an Army Colonel, Samaila Inusa, a director in the Dangote Group, Mansur Ahmed, and three clerics, Revs. Emmanuel Dziggau, Yakubu Dzarma, Ilya Anto and one Afolabi Alega.

Inusa and Anto were killed in the process by their abductors.

In a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, Bisi Kolawole, on Monday in Abuja, Arase asked AIG Nasarawa to come up with new intelligence-gathering and crime-fighting techniques and methodologies to suit the local challenges in the state, adding that he should evolve means of halting the incessant kidnapping as well as other forms of crimes and criminality, especially in Jere, Kagarko Local Government Area of the state.

The IGP, in the statement, also ordered the Kogi State Commissioner of Police and and his counterpart in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to improve on the surveillance network and high police visibility in their respective commands, especially along Abuja-Lokoja-Okene and Kabba-Owo axis, to check the incessant criminal activities in the areas.

“The IG assured the citizenry of the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to their safety, noting that the police in cooperation with other security agencies will continually ensure strategic responses towards eliminating any threat to internal security of the nation,” the statement said.

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