New IG resumes, warns troublemakers

The newly appointed Acting
Inspector General of Police,
Solomon Arase, has taken over as
the Nigeria’s 18th IGP.
Arase was named the Acting
Inspector General of Police
following the removal of his
predecessor, Suleiman Abba, by
President Goodluck Jonathan on
Tuesday.
The new IGP warned potential
lawbreakers that the police would
not hesitate to deal decisively with
anybody caught breaking the laws
while taking over from his
predecessor in Abuja on
Wednesday.
He stressed that the police would
deal decisively with troublemakers
just the way it was committed to
the protection of law-abiding
citizens.
Arase said that it was his mission to
ensure that the police took over its
deserved place in the area of
providing effective internal
security in the country.
He said, “…Unrepentant felons that
may want to put our common will
to test, the message is being
relayed here loud and clear that in
securing the law abiding, we shall
also not hesitate to deploy our
potent assets to deal firmly and
decisively with deviants.
“If the quality manpower potential
of the force are blended with
purposeful and motivated
leadership at strategic level, the
lost primacy of the force within the
internal security architecture of our
beloved country can and will be
restored.”
He said that the police under his
leadership would come up with a
strategic document that would
emphasise intelligence focussed
and a reassuring policing system
with respect for human rights.
He said that the immediate
challenge before the police was
the need to ensure a successful
conduct of re-run elections in some
states and also ensuring the
smooth inaugural ceremony for
elected office holders.
He stressed that the police had the
capacity to actualise the desire to
aid hitch free re-run elections and
to ensure peaceful inauguration of
elected officials.
He stated also that the police
would partner the Independent
National Electoral Commission to
ensure that the issue of electoral
violence was erased from the
nation’s electoral system.
In his comments, the outgoing IGP
called for support for his successor
to ensure a successful conclusion of
the elections.
Meanwhile, a former Commissioner
of Police in Lagos State, Alhaji
Abubakar Tsav, has said President
Jonathan’s decision to sack Abba
smacks of vindictiveness.
Tsav said this in a telephone
interview with one of our
correspondents, in Abuja, on
Wednesday.
Tsav explained that while it was
true that the constitution gives the
President power to hire and fire,
the timing of the decision was
faulty.
Nigerians, he said, would like to
know why the IGP was sacked
“because there is definitely
something fishy” about the way the
IGP was forced out of his job with
four years left before his due
retirement date.

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