The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III CFR, mni, has charged the Nigerian Police to end crimes in the country.
Speaking when he received the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adanu, who paid him a courtesy call at his Gida Sarkin Musulmi Palace in Sokoto, the royal father, promised to support the force by providing them adequate working tools and healthy working environment.
A statement signed by the Police Public Relations officer, DCP Frank Mba, said the IGP was accompanied on the visit by the Executive Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Deputy Governor of the State, Mannir Dan’iya and other top Police Officers and Government functionaries.
The Sultan also decried the decay of infrastructure in the education sector.
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While promising to use the platform of the Forum of Northern Traditional Rulers to rally support of all the Traditional Rulers from Northern Nigeria to fight armed banditry and other crimes in the region, the Sultan threw his weight behind the IGP’s policy direction of using the tool of Community Policing and Partnership to combat crime.
The Sultan also called on Nigerians from all walks of life to support the Police in the fight against crime in the Country.
Thereafter, the IGP visited the Police Headquarters in the State where he charged the Officers and Men of the Command not to relent in the fight against armed banditry and other crimes in the State.
