Crisis management
VANGUARD
10 July, 2012
Following the violence that erupted in Plateau State at the weekend over the killings of over 50 persons, the Inspector General of Police,Mohammed Abubakar has directed the deployment of 4,000 Mobile Police Personnel, Anti-Terrorism personnel and bomb disposal experts in the local government areas of the state.
Also, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 4, Markudi,AIG Michael Zoukumor has been directed to relocate his office from Makurdi to Jos the Plateau State capital to take over the security situation and ensure that further attacks and killings were stopped.
Vanguard gathered that the IGP who paid an on-the-spot assessment visit to Jos yesterday in company of the Chief of Defence Staff,Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, gave the directives immediately he received briefings on the level of violence and reprisals on the Jos attacks.
The Anti-Riot and Anti-Terrorist policemen and Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC’s) according to sources are drawn from all the neighbouring
states and were all directed to be in Jos before dawn yesterday.
With all these resources being drawn from neighboring states, ARE WE ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL ?? Are these resources being pulled from areas also vulnerable to similar blood letting ?
If so, it simply means that the available resources, are inadequate to face the seemingly exponential growth of security challenges facing the nation.
Financial resources must be effectively marshaled, with care to avoid the eroding or impeding effects of corruption.
LET’S PAY FOR THE NECESSARY FORCE STRUCTURE, AND THE ACCOMPANYING MATERIAL NEEDED TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE.
It’s our choice, we can pay now, or pay a horrendous price later.
We are already paying A HORRIBLE price BY SUSPENDING the INEVITABLE
So PEACE IS RESTORED a couple of mindless idiots are arrested and given bail meanwhile the real perpertrators are let off . They should be glad I am not
President.
I will continue to advocate three things for this crisis to come to and end
1).social economic programs which are substantial all the way to the grass root micro economic level
2) The money should be increased for ESTABLISHMENT of more judicial systems, prisons and built up POLICE stations
3). We can deny it however we like there needs to be AN ARMY aviation wing now for HELIOS,AND WHATEVER THE DELAY THOSE C-130S NEED TO BE REFITTED AND PUT BACK INTO SERVICE NOW!
Is anyone noticing a trend or is it just me? They attack the non-hausa/fulani or christians, when they want to repay the attackers in the same manner they send in police, soldiers and equipment.
I too have noticed that trend, dating back to the sharia riots. When the Ibo traders in sabon gari armed themselves, and started to turn the tide against the nameless murderous hordes who are never held to account, only then did the nigerian army know that armed citizens, needed disarming.