KIDNAPPING:IGP IDRIS DIRECTS REDEPLOYMENT OF ALL POLICE SERVING ALONG ABUJA-KADUNA HIGHWAY

The IGP, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, has directed the mmidiate redeploymeint of all police officers currently serving in different formations along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway.

b According to a statement by CSP Jimoh Moshood, the Nigeria Police spokesperson, the affected officers include all junior and senior police officers. The affected officials include “Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, all other Officers, Inspectors and Rank and Files serving in the Police Divisions, Police Stations and out posts situated on Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria Highway. “New Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, other superior Police Officers, Inspectors and Rank and Files have been posted to take over from the outgoing ones,” he added. The police said the redeployments were to ensure “total success of operations Absolute Sanity currently ongoing on Abuja-Kaduna Highway aimed at routing out gangs of kidnappers and armed robbers terrorising Abuja-Kaduna Highway.” The highway has become notorious for kidnappings and other criminal acts despite the high presence of security operatives there. “The redeployment is to bring in new experience and fresh impetus to the fights against kidnappings, armed robberies and other violent crimes on these Highways, and ensure full execution of Operations Absolute Sanity’s strategies in achieving the stipulated mandates of the operations,” CSP Moshood cncluded.