By Chizoba Ogbeche Abuja
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris in a drastic step to ensure success of Operation Absolute Sanity, has ordered the redeployment of Area Commanders, Divisional Police Offi cers, all other offi cers, Inspectors and Rank and Files serving in the Police Divisions, Police Stations and out posts situated on Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria Highways.
Th e deployment is starting from Zuba Division in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to all Divisions and Police Stations and Posts in Niger state located along the Highway to Kaduna, and those other Police Divisions, Police Stations and Outposts throughout the Highways to Kaduna and Zaria City in Kaduna state. Th e Force on Monday commenced Operation Absolute Sanity on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway aimed at routing kidnappers and armed robbers terrorizing commuters on the route.
Th e order to redeploy the police offi cers was made known in a press statement by the Force Public Relations Offi cer (FPRO), CSP Jimoh Moshood, late yesterday, after the IGP’s meeting with senior police offi cers, from Commissioners of Police (CPs) and above, at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. Th e spokesperson said the new Area Commanders, Divisional Police Offi cers, other superior Police Offi cers, Inspectors and Rank and Files have been posted to take over from the out-going ones. “Th e redeployment is to bring in new experience and fresh impetus to the fi ght 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 mandate of the operations.” Th e IGGP also called for stringent punishment for kidnappers to check the menace of kidnappings in the country. Idris made the call at a meeting with Commissioners of Police and above in Abuja on Wednesday. “We have not seen where kidnap suspects were convicted and jailed for committing the off ence, ”he said. He said that some of the kidnap suspects enjoyed freedom more than law abiding Nigerians
