…IGP orders FCT Commissioner of Police to beef up security at NASS
By Dele Ogbodo
The Police on Thursday said the mace of the Red Chamber which was stolen on Wednesday due to the fracas among the members was abandoned by suspected miscreants under the fly over around City Gate.
In a statement signed by the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Aremu Adeniran, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, immediately set two teams to recover the mace.
According to him, the teams engaged in massive raids of identified criminal spots/flashpoints, stop and search operations, visibility and confidence building patrols, intelligence gathering which forced the suspected miscreants to abandon the mace at a point under the flyover before the City Gate, where a patriotic passer-by saw it and alerted the Police.
He said: ”Immediately after the fracas, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris instituted a high-powered police investigation and intelligence team coordinated by the IGP monitoring unit of the Force directed a total lock-down of the Federal Capital Territory with intense surveillance patrol and thorough stop and search operations at various Police check-points with a view to arresting perpetrators and possible recovery of the stolen mace.
”The teams engaged in massive raids of identified criminal spots/flashpoints, stop and search operations, visibility and confidence building patrols, intelligence gathering which forced the suspected miscreants to abandon the Mace at a point under the flyover before the City Gate, where a patriotic passer-by saw it and alerted the Police.”
Adeniran, admitted that discreet investigation into the incident is still ongoing to arrest and bring the perpetrators to justice, appreciated the members of the public who cooperated with the police in the recovery of the mace.
Meanwhile, the IG has called on the Commissioner of Police of the Federal Capital territory to beef up security at the National Assembly and across the territory.