RSG Pledges Continuous Support To Police

The Rivers State Government says it would continue to support the Nigeria Police Force to enable it achieve all set goals and mission for the protection of people leaving and doing business in Rivers State legitimately.
Wike stated this during the flag-off of ‘Operation Restore Peace’ in the South-South Zone, by the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, at the Sharks Sports Stadium, last Wednesday.
Represented by his Deputy, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo, the governor said that Rivers State was peaceful because of his administration’s zero tolerance for violence and crime.
“We believe that a people can only progress in an atmosphere of peace and security, where people can go about their legitimate businesses peacefully, without any harassment, so that we as a government and people will continue to believe in the sovereignty of this nation, Nigeria”.
The State Chief Executive, who expressed gratitude to the acting IGP for the official launch of ‘Operation Restore Peace’, in the South-South Zone said, “We believe in this peace move, and will support it all the way through”.
In his remarks, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, said the launch of ‘Operation Restore Peace’ in Port Harcourt, was the first in line of the police’s strategic action plan to restore peace across the country.
According to him, in the incoming days, this special operation would be extended to other parts of the country to address peculiar crimes, like banditry, kidnapping and armed robbery in other geopolitical zones, adding that the operation would cover all the states within the South-South.
Baba, who urged officers to see their deployments as a call to national duty, charged them to be civil with the law-abiding citizens, but firm and ruthless with criminal elements.