The Force Headquarters has ordered the arrest and prosecution of 190
riot policemen who absconded from the ongoing training at the Special
Forces School , Buni – Yadi , Yobe State.
The fleeing policemen
were part of the 2, 000 Police Mobile Officers mobilised for the
training preparatory to their deployment for combat against Boko Haram
insurgents in the North – East .
They were deployed by the
Inspector – General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, about three weeks ago for
purely military duties under the ‘ Operation Lafiya Dole.’
The
Police authorities had argued that the deployment of the men was
consistent with Section 4 of the Police Act and Regulations, which
allows them to perform such military duties both within and outside
Nigeria as may be required of them.
The 190 missing cops were
believed to have bailed out of the SFS because they did not want to
participate in the counter -insurgency operations .
Findings indicate that the policemen were drawn from MOPOLs 2 , Keffi; 3 Enugu; 5 Benin ; 8 Jos; 11 Calabar; and 16 Abeokuta .
Others
were from MOPOLs 17 Akure ; 18 Owerri ; 19 Port Harcourt ; 20 / 22
Ikeja ; 23 Keffi Str. ; 26 Uyo ; 28 Umuahia ; 30 Yenagoa; 31 Asaba; 32
Abakaliki ; 35 Dutse ; 39 Ogbomoso ; 43 Lion Building ; 50 Kubwa ; 51
Oghara; 54 Onitsha and 56 Ogoni.
A Police wireless message with
reference DTO : 241610/ 12 / 2018 sighted by our correspondent on
Wednesday , and signed by the Commissioner of Police in charge of MOPOL,
directed that the errant operatives should be arrested and produced
under escort .
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