Rivers CP Goes Tough On Guns

In a concerted effort to ensure absolute peace in the state, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Foluso A, Adebanjo, has given a marching order to officers and men of the command to intensify efforts in ensuring that all illegally acquired arms and ammunition that are in the possession of cultists and other criminal elements across the state are recovered.
The State Police helmsman also directed the men to ensure that at least 10 arms were recovered everyday in the state with effect from the date of the directive, adding that the measure was aimed at reducing the spate of crimes in the state.
Adebanjo gave this directive during his maiden press briefing held at the Police Officers Mess in Port Harcourt yesterday to herald his assumption of office as the 36th State Commissioner of Police.
The State police boss averred that it was unacceptable to allow the cultists and other criminal elements to operate across various local government areas of the state and hold the state to ransom, adding that the police under his watch would ensure that criminal elements are forced out of the state. He said that the police has all it takes to defeat the criminals.
According to him, “the police and other security agencies would not sit and watch these criminals continue to wreak havoc in the state. We must monitor them in all their camps”.
He urged all the Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) to, as a matter of urgency reach out to the leaders of the various cult groups in their areas of attachment and have meeting with them, adding that he will not condone any form of occultic rascality in any part of the state.

Akujobi Amadi/ Christiana Edem