Insecurity: IGP visits Kaduna, charges personnel to redouble effort

Three days after bandits attacked Bethel Baptist School and abducted 121 students, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, yesterday paid an operational visit to Kaduna State where he charged officers and men to redouble their efforts in the discharge of their duties.

The IGP, who earlier paid a courtesy visit to Governor Nasir El-Rufai at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, addressed the personnel at the Police Command Headquarters and noted that Kaduna remained a dynamic state with a population of people from various walks of life.

He said policing in Kaduna

State was no doubt challenging and daunting because it required dedication, professionalism, respect for human rights and commitment to doing the right thing from the police personnel.

According to him, “While we know that this job is very challenging, we may not have the complete tools to work with, but we can manage with what we have if we have a change of attitude towards our job,” he said.

He assured the command of more support and an increase in deployment of personnel for the security of the state and the country in general.

Also speaking, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Umar Muri, said the state was faced with worrisome crime waves which included kidnapping, culpable homicide, armed robbery, rape and other forms of crimes.

“I must emphasise the disheartening crime bedevilling the state at the moment, which is the horrifying activities of kidnappers that have apparently occupied the forests and periodically kidnapping innocent students from our learning institutions,” he said.

Muri rued the issue of insufficient manpower, acute shortage of logistics and patrol vehicles in the command and the need for improvement within the shortest possible time to upgrade the security impact in the state.

He thanked the IGP for the visit and reiterated his commitment to the security of the state against all forms of crimes and criminality.