Imo police chief vows to stop sit-at-home

The new Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, has vowed to work tirelessly to put an end to the unlawful sit-at-home order that has crippled the socio economic activities of the state.

Speaking at the maiden conference with the strategic managers of the police command yesterday in Owerri, Danjuma said he would restore public confidence and ensure people go about their lawful businesses without fear of being attacked by criminally minded elements in the state.

“Our presence must be well felt by the populace, we cannot afford to be reactive in our policing approach,” he said.

“My administration will work tirelessly to put an end to the unlawful sit-at-home order that is crippling the socio-economic activities of the state.

“We shall re-ignite back public confidence in going about their lawful business without fear of being attacked by dominating the entire security space of the state.”

He said the command under his watch would embrace an intelligence-based, people-friendly, problem-solving, and proactive community-oriented policing that is rule of law compliant and zero-tolerance for corruption.

“It is pertinent to state that we are in an era when the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) is battling with a trust deficit.”

He urged the police managers to be the vanguard of justice and beacon of hope by ensuring that officers and men under their supervision uphold the highest standards of professionalism, respect the fundamental human rights of citizens, and shun every form of corrupt practice while discharging their lawful duties.

“Let us work together and courageously stamp out violent crimes and criminally minded elements in the state, most especially the local terrorist group masquerading as the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN).”

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he would have relocated his mother to Abuja if Bayelsa State governor Douye Diri had lost his reelection bid.

Jonathan expressed confidence that Diri’s victory will make the state safer with the governor’s determination to tackle insecurity.

He spoke when he visited the governor in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

His words: “We don’t want to go into an unnecessary crisis in the state. Results have been declared and we believe the election was conducted.

“We believe the governor won the election and we plead that people should accept it and work with the governor. Let all of us support him so that the state will move ahead.

“There should be nothing that will push the state backwards. We should think about the development of the state, starting with the issue of peace and security in the state. Within this last period, three years plus, there have been significant improvements in terms of cultism, kidnapping, and so on and so forth.

“I was saying before this election that if Diri lost this election, I would have relocated my mother to Abuja.”