President Muhammadu Buhari, on
Thursday, in Abuja directed security chiefs to bring an end cases of crude oil
theft in the country.
The Inspector-General of Police,
Muhammed Adamu, said the President gave the challenge when he met behind
closed-doors with security chiefs, at the State House, Abuja.
NAN quoted Adamu as saying the
President specifically enjoined the security agencies to intensify security
along the petroleum pipelines and other facilities to check the menace.
“Sequel to the improvement in the
general security situation in the country, we have been charged by the
President to ensure there is a near zero crime society in all geo-political
zones; in fact, the whole of the country.
“So, we’ve also been charged to
increase security along the pipelines, to make sure that crude oil theft is
stopped completely because the loss that the country is facing in that regard
is not tolerated,’’ he said.
The IGP also noted that the
country had witnessed a significant drop in the activities of bandits and
kidnappers following an improvement in security situation across the country.
“We have noticed within this
quarter that the security situation in the country is stable. We made
comparison of what happened in the previous quarters and this last quarter and
we saw that there is tremendous decrease in kidnappings, banditry, armed
robbery and even acts of cultism.
“You can see from the situation
in the North-West zone of the country that banditry and kidnapping has reduced tremendously
and we have statistics to back what we are saying,’’ he said
Adamu also revealed that a good
number of bandits and kidnappers had been apprehended along Kaduna – Abuja and
Kaduna – Birnin Gwari roads.
According to him, many of the
bandits’ camps had been destroyed while the police have intensified efforts to
apprehend those bandits who refused to surrender.
“Those that refused to accept
peace the initiatives we have been able to identify their camps especially
along Kaduna – Abuja road; along Birnin Gwari – Niger axis and we went to the
dens of these kidnappers, we went to their camps and we dislodged some of these
camps.
“In fact in the security meeting
we gave specific numbers of the camps we destroyed and the casualties the
bandits recorded as a result of that.
“So, that had made also some of
them to surrender and some of them relocated. Those that have relocated we are
following them to know the new locations with a view to apprehending them,” he
said.
The Boss Police said security
agencies were also advised to support the peace initiative on Tiv/Jukun crisis
in Benue and Taraba states in order to achieve sustainable peace in the
affected areas.
“Recently, there have series of
peace initiatives especially the Tiv/Jukun crisis, the federal government came
up with initiatives by bringing the leadership of the two states and their
traditional rulers.
“We have been asked to support
that initiative and see to it that dialogue succeeds and that there is peace
between the Jukun and Tiv,”he said.
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