By Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
The Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has deployed officers drawn from the Police tactical squads to ensure the safety of travellers along the Abuja – Kaduna Expressway.
This is coming after terrorists, last week Monday night, bombed the Kaduna-bound train and trail, immobilising the train and killing scores in their wake.
Stonix News reports that the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) thereafter halted rail services along the route to forestall further attacks and also fix the rail track.
As a result, commuters, who had hitherto avoided the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway due to unending attacks by gunmen, had to return to the highway as the option to access Abuja and Kaduna.
To therefore ensure safety of travellers who are forced back to the unsafe highway, the IGP deployed the tactical operatives to avert attacks from the terrorists.
In a statement signed by Acting Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Saturday, he said the IGP patrolled the entire 163km stretch of the Abuja-Kaduna expressway for an assessment of the security challenges and to personally supervise the operatives deployed there.
“In the course of the patrol, the IGP mapped out some salient and strategic points along the expressway which were immediately fortified with the deployment of operatives drawn from the Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Special Forces (SF), Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the Special Tactical Squad (STS), as well as airwing operatives in charge of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Nigeria Police Force.
“During the patrol, IGP Alkali equally visited personnel of the Armed Forces and Police deployed at Rijana to secure technical crew of the Nigeria Railway Corporation undertaking repair works at the damaged train coaches and rail line in the axis, to boost their morale and assess the state of their post,” he noted.
Adejobi further disclosed that the IGP has assured “that with the strategic and operational deployment of officers along the route, normalcy would once again be restored while he tasked members of the public on active intelligence sharing with law enforcement agencies for effective policing of all spaces.”
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