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Nigeria to beef up security to flush out pipeline vandals

Xinhua, July 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

The police in Nigeria on Friday said it has deployed a tactical operation unit to flush out vandals and other criminal elements operating in Arepo and Ibafor areas of southwest Ogun state.

The country's Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, said the deployment of the Unit, comprising the Police Mobile Force, the Counter-Terrorism Unit with the back-up of an Air Surveillance Team, is to ensure that normalcy returns to the areas in record time.

The police chief told reporters that the Force will not watch any criminal group or groups take the law into their hands.

He authorized the Unit to deal decisively with anyone who constitutes himself an enemy of the State, while asking law-abiding citizens of the area to return home and go about their normal businesses.

Arepo and Ibafor in Ogun State have for sometimes now been in the news for the wrong reasons due to anti-social behaviors of miscreants.

Meanwhile, the police has arrested one Aloysius Ebiniko, said to be the kingpin of the armed gang that abducted and murdered Col. Samaila Inusa on March 27, 2016 in central northern city of Kaduna.

The arrest of Aloysius Ebiniko 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 will soon be arraigned in court as those earlier arrested in connection with the crime had been arraigned and are remanded in prison custody. Endit