The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, today 9th October 2022, concluded a six-day duty tour of six Northern states to commission state-of-the-art projects completed by his administration including modern police stations with barracks attached to them, renovation of vital police infrastructures such as police training schools, buildings for tailoring department and the band section.
In the course of commissioning the projects and engaging community stakeholders as part of a confidence-building exercise, the IGP and his team travelled by road and conducted patrols from Abuja to Kaduna; Kaduna to Kano; Kano to kazaure [Jigawa State]; Kazaure [Jigawa State] to Dandagoro [Katsina State]; Kano to Damaturu [Yobe State] [tranversing parts of Jigawa & Bauchi State]; Damaturu[ Yobe] to Benisheik [Borno state] ; Benisheik to Maiduguri in Borno State.
While assuring police officers of his administration’s commitment to entrenching sustainable drives for the protection of lives and property within the country, Baba noted that a similar road trip to commission projects in the Southern part of the country would commence in earnest.
In the same vein, the IGP equally reiterated the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to harness all means of improving Nigeria’s internal security architecture through better service conditions, rejigged Standard Operating Procedures and robust human/community relations.
