Police in Taraba state have began to wake up to their responsibilities as relevant plans to checkmate and if possible flushed out hoodlums from the nooks and crannies of the state have been mapped out by its leadership.
Among such strategies, as made known by the commissioner of police, Shaba Alkali while parading hoodlums before newsmen in Jalingo, the state capital, is to halt vigilante groups operating in the state without the knowledge of the police from working.
The commissioner who paraded several numbers of hoodlums before Journalists at the command headquarters among which includes suspected Fulani herdsmen that have been carrying out silent killing in the state, said no vigilante group would be allow to operate in the state without the supervision of the police.
Also parading a gang of armed bandits that have in the past kept residents of the state awake, said plans to ensure crime free society, have been laid down by the command hence the need for the people to be willing to provide relevant information to the command.
Unlike in the past when the people of the state go to bed with only one of their eyes partially closed following the ill activities of robbers and eruption of crises, the present police leadership in the state, has vowed to take the fight against crime to the door steps of hoodlums.
According to him, “All the vigilante groups operating in the state are warned to as a matter of urgency desist from working independent without the police supervision and carrying prohibited firearms without license.”
The command who recently called on holders of firearm licenses and tinted permits to as a matter of urgency renewed their documents or be compelled to face the wrath of the law, has also beckoned at criminals operating in the state to begin to seek for alternative means of livelihood as the command would not take lightly any hoodlum arrested.
Drumming that “I am warning all the criminal elements in the state to leave or be flushed out and made to face the wrath of the law” the police, he adds “will not let any stone unturned in its efforts of ensuring peace and crime free society.”
The commissioner who also swing his pendulum to leaders of political parties especially now that the supplementary election scheduled to be conducted in thirty-eight polling units in three local government councils slated for the 20th of this month is fast approaching, the command as stated by him would not welcome any form of thuggry.
Noting that he has been properly briefed on the way and manner the last general poll was conducted in the state, which led to skirmishes and pockets of violence, the oncoming re-run he said would be hitch free as the police under his control would not take side.
Admitting that the state has being witnessing the influx of strange faces from other parts of the country especially the north, the command, he said has not being relenting on its oars as majority of such strange faces according to him, have been compelled by the command to “go back to where they are coming from.”
