Sit-at-home: AIG Orders Personnel To Neutralise IPOB/ESN

• AIG Echeng charges police officers in Imo State to neutralize IPOB/ESN elements enforcing illegal sit-at-home directive
• The police will take a tough stance against insurgency, terrorism, and other criminal activities in the zone to ensure peace, security, and economic growth for the people of Imo, Abia, and Ebonyi States

The AIG in charge of Zone 9, AIG Echeng Echeng, has charged police officers in Imo State with neutralizing IPOB/ESN elements enforcing the illegal sit-at-home directive.

Yesterday, Echeng gave the charge during a familiarization tour of the Imo command in Owerri.

The AIG stated that the police would take a tough stance against insurgency, terrorism, and other criminal activities within the zone.

I will continuously ensure that we take the fight to those who do not want peace. There is nothing anybody can do without security.

The economy of the state will not be affected by a group of miscreants who think they have control, he stated.

Echeng, who urged residents to go about their normal lives, reaffirmed his men’s readiness to maintain peace and provide adequate security for the people of Imo, Abia, and Ebonyi States.

We will continue to partner with other security agencies in the state to ensure that those planning to enforce the sit at home order are surely dealt with.

Imo people deserve better than what they are getting now.

They deserve peace, adequate security, economic growth and stability; and this we assure them, Echeng noted.

Earlier, Mr Mohammed Barde, the state commissioner of police, stated that the command had continued to battle IPOB/ESN in order to put an end to their activities.

So far, we have been winning the battle.

The strategies adopted by the command have helped drastically to cut down violent crimes in the state to the barest minimum. I am delighted to inform you that the general security in the state has improved.

The command is working assiduously and determined to improve on the records already achieved so that the people of the state can enjoy relative peace, Barde stated.