Police IG redeploys all personnel on Abuja-Kaduna highway

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate redeployment of all police personnel currently serving in different formations along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway.

The redeployment is expected to bring in new ideas and fresh motivation to the fights against kidnappings, armed robberies and other violent crimes on the Highways.

According to a statement by Jimoh Moshood, the Nigeria Police spokesperson, the affected officers include all junior and senior police officers.

The affected officials include “Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, all other Officers, Inspectors and Rank and Files serving in the Police Divisions, Police Stations and out posts situated on Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria Highways …” Mr. Moshood, a chief superintendent of police, said.

“New Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, other superior Police Officers, Inspectors and Rank and Files have been posted to take over from the outgoing ones,” he added.

The police said the redeployments were to ensure “total success of operations Absolute Sanity currently ongoing on Abuja-Kaduna Highway aimed at routing out gangs of kidnappers and armed robbers terrorising the Abuja-Kaduna Highway.”

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The highway has become notorious for kidnappings and other criminal acts despite the high presence of security operatives there.

“The redeployment is to bring in new experience and fresh impetus to the fights against kidnappings, armed robberies and other violent crimes on these Highways, and ensure full execution of Operations Absolute Sanity’s strategies in achieving the stipulated mandates of the operations,” Mr. Moshood said.

The spokesperson also confirmed that the IG approved the post humous promotion to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, a police inspector, Idris Musa, after he lost his life in a battle against Boko Haram.

It will be recalled that Inspector Idris Musa eventually died at about 0100hrs of 24th July, 2017 from injury he sustained along with two (2) other Police Officers who survived when they came under IEDs attack from the remnant of Boko-Haram insurgents who were moving out to attack public centres, place of worships and other locations in Kano metropolis in the early hours of 23rd of July, 2017.

Recall that the Federal Government had also reiterated its commitment to put an end to kidnapping and armed robbery along Kaduna–Abuja expressway even as it stated that government was concerned about the frequent cases of kidnapping along the Kaduna–Abuja express way.