• Arrest suspected nightclub shooting cop
The Police High Command has ordered the mobilisation and deployment of adequate police personnel and tools for the governorship election in Ekiti.
He stressed that Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs), technical capabilities of the Police Airwing, the Force Marine, Mounted Troops, K-9 Section, and other operational assets have been deployed for the gubernatorial elections slated for June 18, 2022.
MEANWHILE, the Police officers allegedly identified in the shooting incident at Club Cubana in Victoria Island, Lagos on Wednesday, June 8, have been arrested and are being investigated for their involvement in the incident.
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, who described the circumstances surrounding the incident as unbelievable, condemned it, in the strongest terms.
Police’s spokesperson, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement, yesterday, said the IGP has directed the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Abiodun Alabi, to carry out a thorough investigation into the matter and forward his report as quickly as possible for further action.
Police order deployment, mobilization for Ekiti election
Policemen sit in armoured tank as they patrol ahead of next November 6 governorship election in Akwa, Anambra State in southeast Nigeria, on November 3, 2021. - Nigeria's southeast Anambra state holds elections for local governor's office on NOvember 6, 2021 in a ballot being widely watched as barometer for the country's 2023 presidential vote. More than 30,300 police have been dispatched to secure the state where separatist tensions have been on the rise and the vote will test electoral authorities abilities to organise a ballot in difficult circumstances. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
