Police deploy 5000 operatives for Eid-El-Fitri celebration in Edo

The Edo State Police Command has deployed nary less than 5,000 operatives crossed the authorities for the Friday Eid-El-Fitr celebration.

DAILY POST reports that the Public Relations Officer of the Command, ASP Eno Ikoedem, disclosed this connected Wednesday, March 18, 2026, successful a connection made disposable to newsmen successful Benin City.

Ikoedem said the deployment is to guarantee a peaceful and unafraid ambiance crossed the authorities arsenic Muslim faithful observe the extremity of the Ramadan fasting.

According to her, a full of 5,000 constabulary unit person been deployed to heighten constabulary visibility, predominate nationalist spaces, and respond promptly to immoderate emerging situation.

“The deployment cuts crossed Eid supplication grounds, large roads, centrifugal parks, and different locations expected to witnesser ample gatherings.

“In addition, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit person been strategically positioned and are already carrying retired sweeps of designated supplication grounds and high-traffic areas to observe and neutralize immoderate imaginable threats.

“These preventive checks volition proceed passim the solemnisation period,” she said.

Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika, has besides directed sustained patrols and intelligence-driven operations, with peculiar attraction to introduction and exit routes into the state.

Agbonika, however, encouraged residents to spell astir th...