Enough Is Enough, IGP Tells MASSOB, IPOB

… Orders massive deployment of mobile police personnel to South-East states, others
INSPECTOR General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, yesterday warned members of Movement for the Actu­alisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), not to provoke the will of the police and other security agencies with con­tinuous threat to public peace.
Arase said the warning became necessary follow­ing alleged increasing acts of brigandage by MASSOB and IPOB, which threatens national security and public peace in the South-East and conterminous states.


The IGP said the police would no longer fold its law enforcement arms to allow few misguided elements con­tinually force hardship on fel­low Nigerians in any part of the country.
He has ordered the deploy­ment of Police Mobile Force (PMF) across the country to reinforce security in states where MASSOB and IPOB are currently threatening peace and stability.
He has equally directed As­sistant Inspectors Generals of Police in charge of Zones 5, 6, and 9 and all Commission­ers of Police in the affected states in the South-East and neighbouring states to exer­cise their statutory mandate in relation to prevention and disruption of any gathering which threatens public order and national cohesion.

“Any person or group of persons so arrested in further­ance to the enforcement of this order will be made to face the full wrath of the law.”
Arase, who gave the warn­ing in a statement issued in Abuja, said the blockade of the Onitsha end of Niger Bridge on Tuesday, by the group which resulted in hard­ship on motorists, business activities and other law abid­ing citizens of the country, would no longer be tolerated by the police.
The Sun