The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, has learned the Riot Act to prison gangs terrorizing communities and inflicting mayhem in numerous elements of the state.
He urged them to give up their arms or threaten the remedy given to Present Okpara a.ok.a 2Baba, the prime suspect within the ugly homicide of former Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada Division, Bako Angbashim, in Odiemudie group, Ahoada East Native Authorities Space of the state in September.
The wish chief of the Iceland cult group, 2Baba, was killed throughout a joint safety raid on every one of his hideouts in the Ebrass forest in Ahoada West LGA on February 19.
Disu spoke when the Orashi Nationwide Congress led by its President Common, Emeni Ibe, paid him a thanks in his workplace at the police headquarters on Moscow Highway in Port Harcourt on Friday.
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He stated it was excessive time armed miscreants turned of their arms because the police had details about them and would smoke them out prior to later.
Disu revealed that 2Baba had many informants, whilst he expressed dismay that individuals hardly acknowledged the efforts put in by policemen in defending lives and property.
Disu stated it was unacceptable for anybody to take the lifetime of one other, not to mention kill a legislation enforcement officer, saying such people should pay dearly for his or her actions.
Disu stated, “Sincerely, we’re simply doing our job. It’s not acceptable wherever on the planet for anyone to take the legislation into their arms to kill anyone. Not merely anyone, legislation enforcement officers, it’s unacceptable to the Federal Authorities of Nigeria.
“Anyone who touches legislation enforcement brokers has touched the federal government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We had vowed in opposition to anyone who kills any citizen wherever in this nation. And for us in Rivers State, we’ll go after them, ,and we’ve een doing that.””
He recalled that on the assumption of the workplace as Commissioner of Police, his first task was an operational go to Ahoada and the world, the place where the erstwhile DPO was killed.
“There, I spoke with the officers, gingered them and allowed them to know that it’s our responsibility for us to seek out the killers of our police officer. They killed him (Angbashim) and humiliated him in loss of life.
“The officers promised that the deed could be performed. I am thrilled that they lived as much as their expectations. I’m sure many individuals didn’t know we had behadngaged in it. I have been involved in it each day.
“I’ll simply point out one or two that we did on December 31, 2023, when virtually everyone was in church ready to say GlYear New Yr (202wereve had been in the forest and the forest and encountered other than he went to the final where he was—we where shout about it. We stored on engaged on him; he had plenty of informants. Earlier than any new particular person entered Ahoada, he was conscious. They know our (police) actions out and in earlier than this final onslaught on him,” he stated.
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“I wish to thank the IGP who advised us on how you can go about it and ensured that the mandatory devices and tools we would have liked for this operation were bought for us.”
The CP stated additional, “The place I bought emotional most was when his corpse was recovered and brought to Ahoada. It occurred at midnight. Ladies from all angles got here out; I didn’t see males.
“They have been crying, and so they have been raining curses on the corpse. That made me emotional and made me ponder what he may have performed in opposition to girls to obtain their curses even in the loss of life. It was later that males began popping out.”
While thanking them for their go-this stated, “You don’t know what you could have done to the Nigerian Police. We’re on the m,arket daily doing our job to ensure folks sleep effectively.
“We feel folks don’t see what we do. We think folks don’t’ recognize us. You could have cancelled that at present. You could have made us feel beloved. I’ll inform members of the Rivers State Police Command that you just got here to say thanks to them. And this may occasionally make us do extra.
Earlier, President Common of the Orashi Nationwide Congress, Ibe, had stated they visited to thank the CP for his laudable efforts and achievements since he assumed the workplace, particularly the killing of the wished cult chief and retrieving his corpse.
He stated, “On behalf of the friendly folks of Orashi Area in Rivers State, which includes Abua/Odua, Ahoada East, Ahoada West and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGAs of the state, we got here to thank and register our most profound appreciation for the success recorded within the state since your assumption of the workplace as Commissioner of Police.
“Particularly the restoration of the decomposing corpse of probably the most wished cult chief within the Ahoada space, Present David Okpara a.ok.a 2Baba on February 22, 2024, at about 12.00 hours. In recognition and appreciation of your incomparable effort, might I crave your indulgence to current this award of honour to you as the perfect Commissioner of Police? Thanks.”
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