POLICE UNVEIL NEW MODUS OPERANDI FOR SOUTH-EAST REGION.
Written by miebaka ikiriko on May 19, 2021
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali-baba on Tuesday launched a new Special Operational Action plan Code-named, Operation Restore Peace to quell the Indigenous people of Briafra and its Militant arm, Eastern Security Network over the uprising in the region.
The Police said in a statement that the IGP launched the Special Operation at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu as part efforts targeted at returning the South-Eastern Region to its historical pride of place where its people were known to be peaceful, tolerant, innovative, industrious and entrepreneurial.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba said the IGP noted that the Special operation had become necessary to engender all inclusive security actions to roll-back the murderous attacks, violence, proliferation of Weapons and other threats to law and order occasioned by the separatist agenda being heightened by IPOB and its armed wing, ESN in the South –East Region.
The IGP also revealed that the “Operation RP” would be replicated in other parts of the Country to address peculiar crimes including banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery, Cultism among others.