Niger Police advise Kainji Lake communities to relocate for Eid celebration over security concerns

The Commissioner of Police successful Niger State, Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, has advised residents of interior communities astir Kainji Lake successful Borgu and Agwara Local Government Areas to relocate to safer areas up of the Eid el-Fitr celebration.

Elleman, who spoke successful Minna, said the determination follows the support of Governor Umar Bago connected the proposal of information agencies successful the state.

He explained that the relocation would let the constabulary to ore their constricted manpower successful circumstantial locations to guarantee effectual policing and the extortion of the lives and spot of residents.

The commissioner noted that the authorities authorities has promised to supply societal amenities successful the designated areas to guarantee a comfy enactment for the affected residents earlier they instrumentality to their ancestral homes.

He expressed optimism that the planned recruitment of 50,000 further constabulary officers nationwide would assistance code manpower shortages and amended information operations.

Elleman besides said ongoing recruitment exercises successful the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Army would wrong the adjacent 2 to 3 years, fortify unit capableness and heighten work transportation crossed the country.

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