Police restrict tricycles, tighten security ahead of Eid celebration in Borno

The Borno State Police Command has announced a regularisation connected the question of tricycles crossed the authorities from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. connected Friday arsenic portion of information measures for the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations.

In a connection issued connected Thursday, the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Nahum Daso, said residents are advised to observe prayers astatine locations closest to their homes to minimise question and forestall overcrowding.

Daso said operatives of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit person besides been deployed to strategical locations, including large gathering points, to behaviour thorough screening of persons and items entering designated venues.

According to him, the impermanent regularisation connected tricycle (Keke NAPEP) question is aimed astatine enhancing information coordination, easing assemblage control, and preventing imaginable threats.

He added that unit person been deployed successful collaboration with different information agencies to Eid supplication grounds, markets, centrifugal parks, and different susceptible locations for surveillance, postulation management, and nationalist safety.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Naziru Abdulmajid, has directed Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, and different operatives to intensify patrols, intelligence-led operations, and visibility policing passim the festive period.

Residents were urged to stay vigilant, comply with the directives, and study immoderate s...