Acting IGP vows to fight crime

Acting IGP vows to fight crime

The Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), in Nigeria, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar, has vowed to fight crime with all seriousness, be it Boko Haram or armed robbery.

Abubakar made this vow on Thursday, after taking over the mantle of leadership from his predecessor, Hafiz Ringim.

The Acting IGP assured all Nigerians that his administration would be different from all other administrations.

 According to him, “we shall go to every nook and cranny of this country to fish out these criminals that have been troubling this country; they will not sleep as we will continue to pursue them”.

Competence and Merit

Abubakar said that competence and merit would determine the posting of officers, as favouritism would not work in his administration, but declared that he was a team player, as there was no commander without troops. “I can’t do it alone; we have worked in other places. We demonstrated our capabilities and we are going to replicate it under my administration”. 
The Acting IGP also said that he would not tolerate any act of indiscipline and corruption, stating that he intended to lead by example. 

Challenges

He stressed that he had been fully briefed about the challenges, difficulties and the task facing the Nigeria Police, and said that he was not a new comer to it and could not run away from the fact that he knew some of them.

Abubakar declared that he knew that the police had a very challenging and uphill task and assured that they will confront the challenges.

We shall focus on the areas of interest that we know the police are lacking: in training and retraining programme, welfare scheme and ability to detect crime. We shall move into every nook and cranny of this country and do what is expected of us in respect of crime fighting and criminality”, he said.

Dedicated staff and restructuring

He said that the police needed dedicated and committed staff that were fair and firm in the discharge of their responsibilities, because they would be asked questions in any area within or out of office.

The Acting IGP said that as a team player, he did not believe he could do the job without his officers and men.

“We shall do what we shall do and you will be a living witness to what we shall do. But we need prayers,” he said.

Abubakar said that the police would undergo serious restructuring, as they were going to work together with the committee set up by the president, so that Nigerians could have the police force they deserved; a police that would respect the rule of law and be committed and fair in the discharge of their responsibilities.

He said that the training centres and colleges of the force would undergo very tasking challenges to be able to train officers and men and assured that they cannot take policemen to institutions that are bad, lacking and which cannot produce good police officers.

In his words “I am going to declare a state of emergency in our training institutes, so that we can look at the facilities, the staff and what they have on the ground”.

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