Insecurity: IG deploys helicopters in S’West, N’West

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja

As part of measures to curtail crimes in the country, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the deployment of helicopters  for aerial surveillance in major cities in the South-West and North-West.

While the police Air-Wing Operational Base in Abuja would cater for Abuja – Kaduna highway, as well as the adjoining states in the North-West and North-Central, the new base in Ondo State would oversee  adjoining states and highways in the South-West.

The Force spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, counselled citizens not to panic “but to go about their lawful business as the aerial surveillance is geared towards improving the security of lives and property in the affected areas.”

Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had ordered the Commissioner of Police, Taraba State Command to fish out the killers of Rev. Father David Tanko, who was murdered in the early hours of Thursday.

The cleric was going for a peace meeting to resolve the violent crisis between Tiv and Jukun ethnic groups when he was waylaid and murdered and his car set ablaze with his body inside.

The IG in a statement expressed concern over the rising incidents of attacks on clergymen in some parts of the country and directed Commissioners of Police in all the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory to pay special attention to clerics and increase security around worship centres nationwide.

In another development,  the FCT Police Command intercepted mining explosives at Baba Nagode motor park in Nyanya, a satellite FCT town.

Four suspects, Hamisu Abah, Suleiman Hammeed, Onuh Sunday and Agwan Bulus, nabbed in connection with the unauthorised movement of the material had been transferred to the Command Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.