The Imo state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, has revealed why the command have continued to make incessant arrests in the state.
According to the Commissioner, ‘incessant crimes led to incessant arrests in the state’.
Yaro said this when the Orlu branch of the Nigerian Bar Association(NBA), paid him a visited him in his office at the Police Command headquarters in Owerri.
“People have raised concern about the incessant arrests in the state, but what people do not know is that incessant crimes lead to incessant arrests. In the last few months, Imo has been tagged an emergency or red flag state but we must work hard to restore peace and confidence in the state.
” As professionals, we must work together to improve our criminal justice system. We are doing the mop-up; we have a law that empowers us to do that. The situation in the state requires collaborative efforts from everybody to end it. The businesses here are suffering. Let us embark on practical engagement with the police on the need to restore sanity in the state.
“We are not unaware that political enterprise is part of the crisis situation in Imo State. The Insecurity in Imo State has a political undertone. In the last 48 hours, the house of the state Commissioner of Information was destroyed. Someone somewhere told them to do that simply because he( Commissioner) is serving Imo State Government.”
Speaking, the Orlu NBA branch Chairman, Chinedu Agbodike, charged the police to see legal practitioners as partners in progress, not as enemies.
He called on the Commissioner of police to improve the security situation in Orlu and the state at large, adding that the quest to restoring security in the state was a collective one.
