Aliyu Garba the new Commissioner of Police Ebonyi, Monday assumed duty with an action plan to tackle insecurity in the state. He took over from Sule Maku who was transferred to Special Protection Unit, force headquarters Abuja.
Recall that in the recent times several reports have indicated that Ebonyi residents no longer sleep peacefully following the high rate of killing in the state of which police officers were victims.
The new CP while addressing journalists shortly after inspecting the guard of honour emphasized that efforts would be put in place to ensure that robbery, kidnapping, cultism, and other social vices were curtailed in the state insisting that as an anti-corruption ambassador, bail is free in the command.
He then solicited the cooperation of media in the state to make his job easier noting that security is not one person’s affairs.
In his words, the new CP stated that it is an obvious fact within the knowledge of everyone that security challenges are a serious problem in Nigeria today and Ebonyi state is not an exception to this fact.
However he restated his desire to unveil and execute certain actions plans that will make the command achieve robust policing in the state, while assuring his men, media practitioners, stakeholders in the security palace, and members of the public that with their maximum cooperation, the state will collectively win the battle of the fight against all forms of crimes and criminalities and by extension, Nigeria at large.
Explaining CP Garba enumerated some of the mechanisms he intends to put in place as, respect to fundamental human rights of the citizens as enshrined in the constitution and professionalism by his officers and men while discharging their constitutional mandate to protect lives and properties in the state, Robust collaboration with sister agencies to tackle all sorts of criminalities in the state, identification of crime-prone areas and boundary/community clashes to dialogue in town hall meetings.
Also all efforts will be put in place to ensure that the command fight against all sorts of heinous crimes like robbery, kidnapping, cultism and other social vices intending to minimize the menace to barest level in the state he noted.
Aliyu hails from Kontagora Local Government Area, Niger State and is the 24th Commissioner of Police of Ebonyi State Command since the creation of the state in 1996.
