The newly appointed Acting Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has taken over as the Nigeria’s 18th IGP.Arase was named the Acting Inspector General of Police following the removal of his predecessor, Suleiman Abba, by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday.The new IGP warned potential lawbreakers that the police would not hesitate to deal decisively with anybody caught breaking the laws while taking over from his predecessor in Abuja on Wednesday.
He stressed that the police would deal decisively with troublemakers just the way it was committed to the protection of law-abiding citizens.
Arase said that it was his mission to ensure that the police took over its deserved place in the area of providing effective internal security in the country.
He said, “…Unrepentant felons that may want to put our common will to test, the message is being relayed here loud and clear that in securing the law abiding, we shall also not hesitate to deploy our potent assets to deal firmly and decisively with deviants.
“If the quality manpower potential of the force are blended with purposeful and motivated leadership at strategic level, the lost primacy of the force within the internal security architecture of our beloved country can and will be restored.”
He said that the police under his leadership would come up with a strategic document that would emphasise intelligence focussed and a reassuring policing system with respect for human rights.
He said that the immediate challenge before the police was the need to ensure a successful conduct of re-run elections in some states and also ensuring the smooth inaugural ceremony for elected office holders.
He stressed that the police had the capacity to actualise the desire to aid hitch free re-run elections and to ensure peaceful inauguration of elected officials.
He stated also that the police would partner the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that the issue of electoral violence was erased from the nation’s electoral system.
In his comments, the outgoing IGP called for support for his successor to ensure a successful conclusion of the elections.
Meanwhile, a former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has said President Jonathan’s decision to sack Abba smacks of vindictiveness.
Tsav said this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, in Abuja, on Wednesday.
Tsav explained that while it was true that the constitution gives the President power to hire and fire, the timing of the decision was faulty.
Nigerians, he said, would like to know why the IGP was sacked “because there is definitely something fishy” about the way the IGP was forced out of his job with four years left before his due retirement date.
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