police parades suspects over looting, vandalisation in Jalingo.

26/10/202. 

Seventeen suspects have been arrested by the Taraba state Police Command in connection to youth vandalization and looting of public and private property in the state.

 Parading the suspects at the Police Headquarters, Jalingo the Police Public Relations officer, David Misal on behalf of the Police Commissioner, Mohammed Azare said some properties were recovered from the suspects.

David Misal opined that  the Police are ready to keep the people abreast of the activities of some unscrupulous youths who took to the streets of Jalingo with evil intentions in the guise of ENDSARS.

He said even though the SARS has been disbanded by the Inspector-General of Police, yet the youths went about looting, destroying, vandalizing and burning some government and private properties in the State. 

The PPRO noted that Police as the lead agency in the internal security values and respects the principles of human rights and peaceful protest as one of the fundamental human rights of citizens as stated in the constitution. 

The Police officer however said on Sunday a lifeless body of one identified as Chukwu Osinachi an ex-corp member was found opposite CAN Secretariat suspected to have died as a result of stampede in the process of carting away the looted property and a corpes of yet to be identified person was also found around TSBS.

According to the PPRO, the lawless acts of the youths necessitated the State government to imposed  a twenty hours curfew in Jalingo metropolis and Wukari LGA to enable security operatives carry out their duties without hindrance, saying the Police Command has since embarked on the enforcement of the curfew to ensure a total restoration of peace and order in the State.

The Commissioner of Police through the PPRO uses this medium to warn Criminal minded individuals to desist from all acts of Criminal activities as the Command will not tolerate further breakdown of law and order and violence on the innocent and law abiding citizens in the State saying whosoever is caught henceforth will be made to face the full wrath of the law.

He called on the public to be calm and stay at home for the period of this curfew as the operatives of the Command will do all within its powers to ensure that lives and properties are protected. 

Misal said in the course of the clampdown on the looters, about twenty three suspects have been arrested, six tricycles, three vehicles loaded with eight bags of Rice, thirty nine bags of fertilizer, nine cartons of indomie, nine bottles of agrochemical, nine camp beds and four cartons of macroni were intercepted.

 He said effort is on to fish-out more of the perpetrators in order to recover more items.

David Misal noted that as part of strategies to prevent further attacks and breakdown of law and order, a joint patrol organized by the Commissioner of Police in collaboration with other sister agencies has been embarked upon, which  is aimed at building public confidence and trust on the Police and other agencies and appealed resident of the State to give them maximum cooperation and to always report suspicious elements around their neighborhood to the police.