Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, disclosed this in Abuja
in a chat with State House corespondents after a meeting with President
Muhammadu Buhari.
He said the forthcoming election was one of the issues presenting
challenges which he briefed the president on during the meeting.
Asked why he met with the president, he said: “Obviously I am here
as usual to discuss with the commander in chief on the security
challenges we are having and how we will face these security challenges
adequately.”
He spoke on the security challenges saying: “The security
challenges are obviously you know we are having elections in Anambra
state and we are having challenges in various part of the country
especially some of these issues of kidnapping and these are things I
discussed with the President and the measures taken to address it
squarely.”
On the Anambra election, the police boss gave specifics on how the
police planned to handle the exercise, adding: “Obviously we are
deploring a lot of police officers, almost about 21,000 police officers
to be able to provide adequate security in the Anambra election.
“We are deploying our water boats to take care of the water ways,
we are deploring our helicopters to take care of the aerial surveillance
and we are deploying our conventional police men and special police
units to take care of situations on ground and by the grace of God, we
are going to have a successful and peaceful elections in Anambra state.”
On security the security situation on Kaduna-Abuja road, he said a
police special unit has been deployed to area to ensure security as he
expressed delight that the National Assembly has approved death penalty
for convicted kidnappers.
According to him, “we have deplored our special units there and we
have arrested several of these kidnappers and I want to appreciate the
effort of the National Assembly for providing sort of a death penalty
for suspects arrested involved in some of these cases of kidnapping and
sure that in some few weeks time, he we are going to have drastic fall
in the report of some of these incidences of kidnapping on those areas
because of these punishment that has been made now by the National
Assembly.”
On when will the suspects be charged to court, he added: “We are
taking them to court on everyday basis. Presently, we have almost over
3000 suspects in the various police stations all over the country and we
are taking them to court.
“Recently, I set up a task force to sort of streamline or
scrutinize these cases so that we have speedy trial of some of these
suspects.”
The Inspector General was also asked whether he would appear before the Senate on corruption allegations leveled against him.
He replied: “These are legal issues. We are discussing with our
legal team. Obviously, if there is need, we are going to appear for the
sake of having respect for the Senate. I will appear before them.”
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