Imo government has announced plans to launch a security outfit in the state on Nov. 30, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Declan Emelumba discloses. The commissioner made the disclosure while briefing newsmen after the State Executive Council meeting at the Government
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, his Delta State counterpart, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, and other South-South State governors have set in motion machinery that would see to the establishment of a regional security outfit. Obaseki, who disclosed this after a closed-door meeting with the governors in Asaba, said the decision was necessary to tackle […]
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State says the state does not require the services of any other security outfit, apart from those recognised by the laws of the country. Ganduje said this when he received the new Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone One, Mr Sadiq Bello on a courtesy visit in his office […]
Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to perish any thought of outlawing the newly launched South-West security outfit, Amotekun, saying it has come to stay to safeguard lives and property of the people. Speaking while addressing journalists at his residence in Abuja, Fani-Kayode said that the security
…Says Police stretched to the limits …’Local policing not an effort to hijack role of federal police or compete with FG’ As controversy over the legality of ‘Operation Amotekun’, the security outfit set up by governors of the South West rages, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind the decentralisation of policing […]