Don’t allow anybody lure you into mutinous action — DIG tells officers
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure
The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Department of Research and Planning, DIG Johnson Babatunde Kokumo, has warned officers and men of the command not to allow anybody to lure them into an action that is mutinous under the constitution of the country.
Speaking on Thursday at the Ondo State Police Command Headquarters, Igbatoro in Akure the Ondo state capital, during his maiden working visit since assumption of office for South-West States Zone, DIG Kokumo said, “don’t allow anybody to lure you into any strike action, the reason as policemen we are not, we should not, we must not embark on any strike action, because it’s mutinous and you all known the consequences of mutiny.”
He said, “I’m here to give you good messages from the Inspector General of Police, the IGP Alkali Baba Usman, who has mandated me to be with you to give you good messages from him and to have feedback for him in Abuja.
“This is going to be an interactive process where you talk to me and I also talk to you, I’m here to let you have an insight into what the IGP Alkali Usman Baba has been able to do, what he has done what is currently doing and of course what he’s hoping to do as Inspector General of Police.
“Ours is to give him maximum support, ours is to be totally loyal, ours is to be dedicated and we can only do all these if we are professional with the way we go about our duties and responsibilities.
“It is a common knowledge that the Nigerian Police is the lead agencies in the internal security, we should take our prime position, we should be seeing in action fight as the lead agencies in internal security, Police is your friend, this is the common slogan are we truly friends to the members of the public, we need to examine our conscience.”
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, in charge of Zone 17 comprising Ekiti and Ondo States, AIG Ene Okon, in his earlier address, assured that there were no plans by policemen attached to the Zone to embarked on the rumoured strike action.
Also, the Ondo Police Commissioner, Oyeyemi Oyediran, assured the IGP that policemen under his command will not engage in anything that will dent the image of the profession.
