The Federal Government says the
nation has continued to enjoy relative peace and stability in the ember months.
The Inspector-General of Police,
Muhammed Adamu, made this known after the meeting of the National Security
Council, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, on Tuesday.
According to him, the meeting
reviewed the nation’s security situation and noted that the situation across
the country is stable.
He said: “The meeting reviewed
the security situation all over the country and we realised that it’s stable,
banditry has been reduced to the barest minimum, kidnapping had been reduced
significantly.
“The epic centre of this
kidnapping as you know in the northwestern part of the country – Zamfara,
Katsina, Kaduna, they are all very calm now.
“The insurgency in the northeast
on a daily basis they are being degraded and many of the insurgents are
surrendering to the authority. They are giving up their arms and for that
reason, we have been encouraged to sustain the tempo.
“All the successes recorded was
as a result of the cooperation received from members of the public, including
the press because most of you have objectively assessed the actual security situation
in the country, which your followers agreed to.
“So, we have been encouraged to
continue with the tempo so that insurgency can be greatly eliminated from the
country.
“Politicians and the hunters have
been working with us and other stakeholders.
“As such we have been encouraged
to work more closely with such groups of people so as to have the information
that we require.
”We therefore have all the
support that we need to defeat any form of criminality within the country.’’
On the pockets of unrest recorded
during the Nov. 16 Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections, Adamu disclosed
that some arrests have been made by the police in the two states.
According to him, the ‘policemen’
alleged to have disrupted the elections in some parts of the two States were
“fake” and not the personnel officially deployed for election duties.
He said that all security
personnel, who worked during the elections were given “special identification
tags”, adding that anyone without the tags was on illegal duty.
“Before the elections, there was
threats assessment of the two states and we realised that there was going to be
violence in two states.
“Because, during the campaigns we
saw how the opponents were fighting themselves, so we prepared so much for
that. During one of the stakeholders meeting, I went to Kogi with the chairman
of INEC and I also went to Bayelsa.
“Even at the point of signing the
peace accord to conduct the election without any problems, after signing the
peace accord in Kogi, within the hall there was problem by the parties.
“So we knew that it was not going
to be easy and so we had to prepare heavily for the elections.
“During the elections, anybody
you saw either in police uniform or military uniform that does not carry the
tag that has been given for the election, that person is not genuine police
officer or military officer or that he was not on official duty.
“We were aware of the fact that
some politicians were going to sew police and military uniforms, so we devised
some other means of identifying those that were on elections duty. We gave them
tags,’’ he said.
On why the Police allowed
violence during the elections even with security reports to the police before
the exercise, he said: “You see, it depends on the way you choose to interpret.
“We did our assessment, we knew
these things will happen but what we needed to do was plan to prevent it, or if
it happens, to arrest. That explains why the number of policemen we sent to
those states were so massive.
“Now, when you get the
information and you did your assessment and you did your plan, the bad guys are
also planning, and the people we are dealing with here are politicians. So, for
us to be able to distinguish the bad from the good, one of the strategy was to
create a situation that will enable us identify the good ones, genuine
personnel.
“Then anyone without
identification tag, is a bad guy and then we pick him. They came out as they
planned but then, we made some arrests on the spot where we saw them, those
that escaped through information and intelligence we also picked them.’’
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