To ensure total success of
operations Absolute Sanity currently ongoing on
Abuja-Kaduna Highway aimed at routing out gangs of kidnappers and armed
robbers terrorizing Abuja-Kaduna Highway, the Inspector General of Police has
ordered the immediate redeployment of Area Commanders, Divisional Police
Officers, all other Officers, Inspectors and Rank and Files serving in the
Police Divisions, Police Stations and out posts situated on Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria
Highways starting from Zuba Division in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja 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.
New Area Commanders, Divisional Police
Officers, other superior Police Officers, Inspectors and Rank and Files have
been posted to take over from the outgoing ones.
The redeployment is to bring in new
experience and fresh impetus to the fights 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 mandates of
the operations.
In another development, the Inspector
General of Police has promoted post-humously late Inspector Idris Musa to the
rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police for act of bravery, gallantry and
supreme sacrifice of losing his life in active service to his fatherland,
Nigeria and the Nigeria Police Force. The late Police Officer will be
remembered as one of the heroes of the Nigeria Police Force in the fight
against Boko-Haram insurgency in Nigeria.
It will be recalled that Inspector Idris
Musa eventually died at about 0100hrs of 24th July, 2017 from injury he
sustained along with two (2) other Police Officers who survived when they came
under IEDs attack from the remnant of Boko-Haram insurgents who were moving out
to attack public centres, place of worships and other locations in Kano metropolis
in the early hours of 23rd of July, 2017
The Inspector General of Police has
directed that the late Inspector Idris Musa be given a befitting burial.
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