IGP Withdraws Policemen Attached To VIPs.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the
withdrawal of all police personnel attached to all VIPs across the
nation with immediate effect.

This was contained in a Wireless Message sent virtually to Zonal
AIGs and Command CPs with signal number DTO 210900/19/2020.

The signal was copied to all Police formations in Lagos, Benin,
Enugu, Makurdi, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Oshogbo, Sokoto, Umuahia,
Abeokuta, Akure, Awka, Ibadan, Calabar, Kano, Yola, Asaba and
Ebonyi, with the IGP warning that any Commander who violates this
order will face the consequences.

However, Adamu said those attached to government houses, the
Senate President and the Speaker House of Representatives, should
not be withdrawn.

The signal, which was signed by the AIG POL, Protect, Force
Headquarters, Abuja, reads in part: “Any protect personnel found
escorting or guarding any VIP with or without a firearm is deemed
to be deployed by the commander and the commander will be
sanctioned.”

It also directed that “all withdrawn protection personnel are to
report to COMPOL commands.”

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the
withdrawal of all police personnel attached to all VIPs across the
nation with immediate effect.

This was contained in a Wireless Message sent virtually to Zonal
AIGs and Command CPs with signal number DTO 210900/19/2020.

The signal was copied to all Police formations in Lagos, Benin,
Enugu, Makurdi, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Oshogbo, Sokoto, Umuahia,
Abeokuta, Akure, Awka, Ibadan, Calabar, Kano, Yola, Asaba and
Ebonyi, with the IGP warning that any Commander who violates this
order will face the consequences.

However, Adamu said those attached to government houses, the
Senate President and the Speaker House of Representatives, should
not be withdrawn.

The signal, which was signed by the AIG POL, Protect, Force
Headquarters, Abuja, reads in part: “Any protect personnel found
escorting or guarding any VIP with or without a firearm is deemed
to be deployed by the commander and the commander will be
sanctioned.”

It also directed that “all withdrawn protection personnel are to
report to COMPOL commands.”