THE Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has directed mobilisation and deployment of Police Mobile Force (PMF) to reinforce security in the state commands where Movement for the
Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are engaged in protests.
He has also directed Assistant Inspectors-General of Police in charge of Zone 5, (Benin); Zone 6, (Calabar) and Zone 9 (Umuahia) as well as all Commissioners of Police in the affected states in the South East and neigbouring states to maximally exercise their statutory mandate in relation to prevention and disruption of any gathering that threatens public order and national cohesion
A statement from the police headquarters which confirmed the directives on Wednesday noted that any person or group of persons so arrested in furtherance to the enforcement of the order will be made to face the full wrath of the law.
According to the statement, the Inspector-General of Police equally issued a stern warning to MASSOB and IPOB activists to stop threatening public peace or face the full weight of the law.
It stated that the warning followed the observation by the Nigeria Police Force leadership of the increasing resort to acts of brigandage by persons it described as sets of misguided individuals who apparently are hiding under the cloak of MASSOB and IPOB to threaten national security and public peace in parts of South East geopolitical zone and some other conterminous states
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