The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP monitoring satellite offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt.
The police boss gave the order after Nigerians complained that the officers in the units were harassing them and operating beyond their briefs.
IGP says he will improve from where his predecessor has left. Photo: @PoliceNG
He made the disclosure on Thursday, April 15, at his maiden meeting with command police commissioners and zonal Assistant Inspector-General (AIG)'s in Abuja.
Baba said the disbanded units will be re-organised.
The IGP took the action 24 hours after he met with Musiliu Smith, chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), to discuss ways of increasing the efficiency of the police force.
Meanwhile, the IGP Baba has disclosed that the security situation in the southeast and south-south geopolitical zones in Nigeria is critical to his tenure.
Baba disclosed this on Friday, April 9, in Abuja at the opening of a meeting with police strategic commanders in the zones.
He said the meeting was aimed at discussing security issues affecting the two regions of the country. Baba noted that after the meeting, the commanders would go back to their zones to implement the outcome of the meeting.
In another report, some unknown gunmen have killed three police operatives in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital.
According to the report, the operatives were shot while on duty at about 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 14 along Nwezenyi road in the state capital.
The officers who sustained bullet wounds during the attack were later confirmed dead by doctors at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki. Commissioner for internal security and border peace, Stanley Okoroemegha, confirmed the incident.
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