IG Warns Police To Desist From Civilian Shooting

Solomon Arase, the Inspector General of Police
(IGP) has warned officers to desist from the
barbaric act of shooting at innocent civilians
and vowed that any officer who does will be
arraigned before a court within 48 hours.
The Punch reports that the IGP gave this
warning on Thursday, November 19 at the
headquarters of the Ogun state command in
Eleweran, Abeokuta. His visit to the state was
to ascertain the level of preparedness of
officers ahead of the burial of the late Hannah
Idowu Dideolu Awolowo.

Arase warned officers on convoy to also desist
from the act of whipping civilians.
“Nigerians are not animals; don’t beat civilians
with horse whips, especially the officers on a
governor’s convoy should be stopped by
Commissioners of Police.
“Any police officer that shoots a civilian must be
arraigned in court within 48 hours, because you’re
not allowed to shoot a civilian.”
The police chief also said that Supernumerary
Police (SPY) officers who are attached to
banks for security purposes to stop parading in
police uniforms as from January 1, 2016 or
risk being arrested and detained.
Arase also promoted eight sentry guards of the
command – Haruna Ijiji, Tochukwu Igwe,
Friday Momodu, Faruna Danjuma, Felix Adejoh,
Mathew Adelu, Usip Uwemedimo and
Emmanuel Unazi – to their next ranks for
impressive performance during his inspection
of guards of honour.
The IGP directed Abdulmajid Ali, the state
commissioner of police to look for a suitable
land with title documents as the police high
command as a welfare package had concluded
plan to construct a 25,000 post-retirement
housing estate for ranks and files across the
country.

He added that 36, 000 officers had benefitted
from promotional courses while others with
additional qualifications would also be
considered