IGP deploys Tactical Operation Unit to tackle Arepo/Ibafo crisis

Following the rising cases of militancy and oil pipeline vandal­ism in Arepo and Ibafo are­as of Ogun State, the Inspec­tor General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has deployed a Tactical Operation Unit, comprising the Mobile Po­lice Force, the Counter-Ter­rorism Unit together with an Air Surveillance Team to res­cue the situation and restore normalcy in the area.

The IGP further warned that the Nigeria Police Force will not watch any criminal group or groups take the law into their hands and hold in­nocent citizens to ransom.

He, therefore, ordered the officers deployed to the area ”to deal decisively with any­one who constitutes himself an enemy of the state.”

The IGP however, called on law-abiding members of the communities who ran from their communities as a result of the activities of the criminals to return home and go about their normal busi­nesses.

This is even as detectives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested one Aloysi­us Ebiniko, who is said to be the kingpin of the armed gang that abducted and mur­dered Col. Samaila Inusa in Kaduna on March 27.

The arrest of Aloysius Ebiniko, according to a state­ment by the Force Spokes­man, Don Awunah, was made possible as a result of a credible technical intelli­gence employed by the Police after a confessional statement of a member of the gang ear­lier arrested.

Aloysius Ebiniko, the statement said, will soon be arraigned in court as those earlier arrested in connection with the crime had been ar­raigned and are remanded in prison custody.