The Federal Government has handed over 17,350 bulletproof vests and ballistics helmets to the Inspector General of Police Usman Baba. Also donated were
David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka and Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Umuahia
The federal government has ordered the police to step up operations to stop attacks on their formations in the South-east and other parts of the country.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Mr. Mohammad Dingyadi, who gave the order, also commended police personnel for repelling an attack on the Zonal Police Headquarters, Zone 13, in Ukpo, Anambra State.
The Anambra State Commissioner for Police, Mr. Kuryas Monday, is to lead a special operation aimed at tracing, identifying and arresting the attackers of the zonal command headquarters.
Besides the attack on the zonal command, the Divisional Police Headquarters, Uzuakoli in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, was in the early hours of yesterday razed down by yet-to-be identified hoodlums.
Minister orders intelligence-led operation against violence in South-East
Segun Adewole
Segun Adewole
Published 4:46 pm
The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, has commended men of the Nigeria Police Force for repelling an attack on the Zonal Police Headquarters, Zone 13, in Ukpo, Anambra State.
The PUNCH reported that the hoodlums who carried out the attack in the early hours of Monday razed some offices and scores of vehicles.
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A police officer, who pleaded anonymity, said the hoodlums were rebuffed from getting into the armoury department of the place.
Reacting to the incident, Dingyadi said he has directed an intelligence-led kinetic operation to neutralise perpetrators of violence in the South-East.
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