IG bars SPY policemen from wearing uniform OCTOBER 23, 2015 : ADELANI ADEPEGBA
The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has directed
companies using Supernumerary Police nationwide to stop the
use of police uniform for their operations on or before January 1,
2016.
This followed reports that Bassey Edet, the official driver of
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, was wearing
police uniform and posing as a police officer.
The state government had insisted that Edet was a SPY
policeman, having attended Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos
State, with Force identification number, 1522.
The state Commissioner for Information and Communications,
Mr. Aniekan Umanah, who displayed photocopies of Edet’s
police identity card and certificates to journalists, argued that
he was a duly trained personnel of the police working with the
state government.
But the IG, who gave the directive on Thursday at a meeting
with security managers of firms using SPY Police for their
internal security, said the measure was part of his
administration’s renewed crime fighting strategy.
This, the IG said, was “aimed at curtailing the activities of
criminally-minded persons who disguise in police uniform to
perpetrate their nefarious activities.”
Arase said he had approved the use of a newly-designed grey
and black trousers pair as the new uniform to be worn by SPY
police officers nationwide, according to a statement by the Force
Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole.
Meanwhile, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps,
Boboye Oyeyemi, has assured that Nigeria will work towards the
implementation of the Economic Community of West African
States’s policy on axle load control not only in the country, but
in other member countries.
Oyeyemi, who is the Chairman of the National Committee on the
implementation of the ECOWAS policy on axle load control, said
Nigeria would ensure that conducive environment for its
implementation was created in the country to properly address
issues of overloading both within and across the sub-regional
roads.
“Nigeria is one of the signatories to the ECOWAS protocol on the
implementation of the policy on axle load control; We must
therefore make concerted efforts to ensure that the policy is
effectively enforced in the country,” he stated at a stakeholders
meeting in Abuja.
companies using Supernumerary Police nationwide to stop the
use of police uniform for their operations on or before January 1,
2016.
This followed reports that Bassey Edet, the official driver of
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, was wearing
police uniform and posing as a police officer.
The state government had insisted that Edet was a SPY
policeman, having attended Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos
State, with Force identification number, 1522.
The state Commissioner for Information and Communications,
Mr. Aniekan Umanah, who displayed photocopies of Edet’s
police identity card and certificates to journalists, argued that
he was a duly trained personnel of the police working with the
state government.
But the IG, who gave the directive on Thursday at a meeting
with security managers of firms using SPY Police for their
internal security, said the measure was part of his
administration’s renewed crime fighting strategy.
This, the IG said, was “aimed at curtailing the activities of
criminally-minded persons who disguise in police uniform to
perpetrate their nefarious activities.”
Arase said he had approved the use of a newly-designed grey
and black trousers pair as the new uniform to be worn by SPY
police officers nationwide, according to a statement by the Force
Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole.
Meanwhile, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps,
Boboye Oyeyemi, has assured that Nigeria will work towards the
implementation of the Economic Community of West African
States’s policy on axle load control not only in the country, but
in other member countries.
Oyeyemi, who is the Chairman of the National Committee on the
implementation of the ECOWAS policy on axle load control, said
Nigeria would ensure that conducive environment for its
implementation was created in the country to properly address
issues of overloading both within and across the sub-regional
roads.
“Nigeria is one of the signatories to the ECOWAS protocol on the
implementation of the policy on axle load control; We must
therefore make concerted efforts to ensure that the policy is
effectively enforced in the country,” he stated at a stakeholders
meeting in Abuja.
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