Olakunrin: IGP Orders Total Overhaul Of Highway Security Architecture

…deploys special forces to track killers

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has
ordered a total overhaul of security architecture on highways
across 17 states of the South.

The IGP’s order followed the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin,
daughter of leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation,
Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by suspected herdsmen, along the
Akure-Ore road in Ondo State.

Already, special forces from the Force Criminal Investigation
Department (FCID), the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) the
Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU), as well as investigators
attached to the Ondo State Police Command, have been deployed to
track and arrest the killers of the 58-year-old woman.

Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, who made
the disclosure in a statement yesterday, said Commissioners of
Police (CPs) in charge of states in South West South South, and
South East, have been directed to emplace robust security
arrangements, to stem the tide of killings.

“The Inspector General of Police…has assured the Nation that the
killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the
Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Reuben
Fasorantin, will certainly be found and made to face the full
weight of the law.

“The IGP notes that the Ondo State Police Command, backed by
Special Forces and seasoned investigators from the Force Criminal
Investigation Department (FCID), the Intelligence Response Team
(IRT) and the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) deployed from the
Force Headquarters, Abuja, on his directives, have already
commenced a massive manhunt for the killers with a view to
tracking, arresting and bringing them to justice.

“While condemning the heinous and barbaric crime, the IGP, as
part of measures to prevent a future occurrence of such incidence,
has ordered the total overhaul of security architecture on the
highways straddling the Southern part of the country.

“In this vein, the Commissioners of Police in the affected
States were ordered by the IGP to emplace adequate security
arrangement in their areas of jurisdiction (AOR)”, Mba said.

According to him, the IGP assured the public of continuous
efforts at identifying and apprehending criminal elements, even as
he vowed to provide special security arrangement along some
critical highways in the South.

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PHOTO: Police Nab Kidnapping-Teenagers for
Murder

SUSPECTS: 1. IBRAHIM AHMAD 20YRS OLD OF DARMANAWA QRTS,
KANO.
2. ABDULMAJID MOHD ‘M’, AND
3. MUSA SUNUSI ‘M’ BOTH 18YEARS OLD OF SHEKA QTRS, KUMBOTSO LGA,
KANO STATE.

VICTIM: AHMAD ADO ‘M’ 5YEARS OLD OF KARKASARA QRTS KANO.

In line with the Inspector General of Police directives on
operation Puff Adder and the command’s effort to rid the state in
all forms of Kidnapping, Armed Robbery, Banditry and other
criminalities, on the 10/07/2019 at about 1330hrs, the police
received a report that one Ahmad Ado ‘M’ 5years old of Karkasara
Quarters Kano was kidnapped by unknown persons at Ma’ahat Nursery
and Primary School Karkasara Kano, and that the kidnappers
contacted the family to pay the sum of Fifty Million Naira
(N50,000,000) as Ransom.

Team of operation Puff Adder detectives from Anti-Kidnapping
Squad immediately swung into action, using technical intelligence
arrested the principal suspect one Ibrahim Ahmad ‘M’ aged 20years
old of Darmanawa Quarters Kano. On interrogation, two of his
accomplices, Abdulmajid Mohd ‘M’ and Musa Sunusi ‘M’ both 18years
old of Sheka Quarters, Kumbotso LGA Kano State were instantly
arrested.

Suspects confessed to have over-drugged the victim after the
kidnap which subsequently led to his death at Sheka Sabuwa Abuja
Quarters, Kumbotso LGA. They went ahead and buried the dead body in
a shallow grave at an uncompleted building. The scene was visited
by experts and the dead body exhumed. Investigation has commenced
and suspects will be charged to court after investigation.

We are drawing the attention of all law-abiding and good
citizens of Kano State to be wary of all sundries, family and
friends around them, as criminals are constantly changing their
modus, and criminals have no signs, marks, plate number or
registration number.

Therefore, the command is using this means to warn that,
criminals have no hiding place in the state. They are strictly
advice to repent, leave the state completely or they will be
arrested and charged before a competent court of law.

CP Ahmed Iliyasu
Commissioner of Police Kano