SAN FRANCISCO, March 21, (THEWILL) -The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has warned all police Unit Commanders against flouting the order to withdraw police personnel from VIPs as well as political and public office holders in the country.
THEWILL recalls that Idris had on Monday ordered the withdrawal of the personnel from the group of persons which also included business entrepreneurs and those in multinational companies.
Emphasising the order, the IGP, at a meeting with the Police Mobile Force (PMF), Special Protection Unit (SPU) and Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) Commanders in Abuja, declared that any commander that violates the order would be heavily sanctioned.
“Sanction awaits any officer who violates the order to withdraw personnel from the above mentioned persons,” he declared.
“We want to ensure absolute withdrawal of personnel this time around, any violation will be met with stiffer sanction.
“We must face and surmount the security challenges confronting us by all means.”
The police boss described the frequent attacks on police personnel in the course of their duty in the country as alarming but blamed some of the incidents on police personnel who were not at alert while on duty.
Idris said that PMF personnel would be deployed to all schools in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa in order to prevent a recurrence of the recent ugly incident at the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe.
“I will be going on tour of the three states to ascertain the level of compliance so far,” he said.
