payment of money to free suspect.
I am appealing to members of the
public, not to corrupt my men; It
takes two to tango.
“If they ask you for bribe and you
refuse to give, and you have
avenues where your grievances
can be ventilated, I do not see any
reason why you should give them
bribe.
“The Commissioner of Police is
there; the Area Commander is
there; the DPO is there; and the
technical platform (to report
corrupt policemen) is there.
“We have opened ourselves to
public accountability. So, you
cannot now say the whole
problem should be blamed on the
police force’’, he said.
Earlier, the I-G had announced
that two suspected kingpins
responsible for the spate of the
kidnappings in Ekiti state, had
been arrested on Tuesday
morning.
He also said that cultists
operating in Edo State had been
dislodged, with the arrest and
transfer to Abuja, of 11 suspects
believed to be their leaders in the
state.
Mr. Arase, however, described
Kogi, Rivers and Benue as problematic states in terms of crime, and promised to deploy personnel to those states in 48 hours to tackle the problem.
He directed Commissioners of
Police to report threats to security
in their respective states to the Force
Headquarters for intervention. He threatened to sanction any commissioner who allowed security situation to get out of hand and caused embarrassment to the nation before reporting it for intervention.
Mr. Arase said the meeting was called to assess the success of special operations embarked upon by the police in Edo and Ekiti states in the last two weeks.
The I-G also said the police would map out strategies to ensure hitch-free inauguration of
elected leaders at both the federal and state levels.

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