The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone-13, Ukpo, Anambra State, Danmallam Mohammed, has charged Commissioners of Police in charge of Anambra and Enugu states to protect the lives of police personnel and other citizens under their commands.
The Zonal Public Relations Officer, Zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra State, Nkeiruka Nwode, in a statement on Sunday said the AIG tasked CPs in the zone to repel violent attacks in their commands with reasonable and lawful force.
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“The AIG, Danmallam Mohammed, has charged Commissioners of Police in charge of Anambra and Enugu respectively to deploy every lawful force to protect lives and property of citizens, police and government property, officers of other law enforcement agencies and their families from malicious attacks from persons, groups who might be operating under any guise and circumstances.
“The AIG stressed that zone 13 won’t tolerate a repeat of the outing that erupted in the past where police officers under the zone suffered fatal attacks, stations burnt and vehicles set ablaze.”
Several police officers were killed in the area and other parts of the country during the violence that followed the hijack of the the #EndSARS protests by hoodlums.
