Benue: IGP declares war on killers, armed criminals, orders 14-day crackdown

Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has announced a 14-day peculiar information cognition aimed astatine dismantling transgression networks liable for killings, kidnappings and different convulsive crimes crossed Benue State.

Speaking astatine a municipality hallway gathering with stakeholders successful Makurdi on Thursday, the IGP described the information concern successful the authorities arsenic alarming, saying the persistent attacks had continued to origin fearfulness among residents and posed a large situation to information agencies.

Disu revealed that President Bola Tinubu had directed each information agencies to bring an extremity to the recurring unit and reconstruct lasting bid successful the state.

“The insecurity successful Benue is unacceptable. It has go a root of sleepless nights for the radical and information agencies. Mr. President has made it wide that this concern volition nary longer beryllium tolerated,” helium said.

According to the constabulary chief, the cognition volition absorption connected equipped transgression herders, kidnappers, bandits, cult groups and different convulsive offenders liable for attacks successful antithetic parts of Benue.

He besides cautioned young radical against allowing themselves to beryllium utilized by politicians oregon different influential figures to transportation retired convulsive acts, peculiarly during elections, informing that information agencies wo...