Police target cultism, political thuggery in UNICAL

The Cross River State Police Command has moved to tackle cultism, governmental thuggery and different youth-related vices astatine the University of Calabar (UNICAL).

The Commissioner of Police, CP Ajo Geoffrey Ordue, disclosed this yesterday erstwhile the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Offiong Offiong, and his absorption squad paid him a sojourn successful his bureau successful Calabar.

Ordue said the bid would found a Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV) portion successful the assemblage to service arsenic a level for sensitisation and engagement with students.

He said the inaugural would absorption connected cultism, violence, cause maltreatment and different societal vices susceptible of threatening the information and well-being of students and different young radical connected campus.

The commissioner besides called for accrued engagement with youths up of the forthcoming elections, peculiarly to discourage governmental thuggery, integer thuggery, online incitement and different forms of youth-driven violence.

He said the bid would fortify assemblage policing done partnership, prevention and intelligence-led engagement, adding that acquisition institutions remained captious partners successful preventing crime.

Ordue stressed the request for proactive policing and aboriginal involution to place and code emerging securi...