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Sylvester Abiodun Alabi. Bauchi State Commissioner of Police
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
Bauchi State Police Command has put in place, crime preventive measures which includes visibility policing, community partnership, constant raids of black spots, regular foot and 24hrs vehicular patrols.
Also, the Command will ensure intermittent surveillance on buildings and vulnerable areas, stop and search, and intelligence led policing through partnership with sister agencies and other non-governmental organizations in order to nip in the bud, all forms of crime and criminality and also to flush out their hideouts in the States.
The disclosure was made by the Command PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili while speaking to our Correspondent on the preparedness of the Command under the leading of the Commissioner, Sylvester Abiodun Alabi on fighting crimes and criminality across the state.
The Command particularly assured residents of Birshin Fulani, a community on the outskirts Bauchi on the Bauchi-Dass road, of adequate security of their lives and properties with a view to ensuring peace in the area.
Ahmed Wakili said that there is tight security now at Birshin Fulani, informing that every nook and cranny in the community has Police presence just as he revealed that Police operatives in the area have been provided with vehicles to enable them carry out their duty of securing lives and property of the residents.
While speaking on the deteriorating security situation in the community, the PPRO said that the Police is doing everything possible to ensure that the people there sleep with their two eyes closed.
He added that, “That is why Police operatives are given vehicles to be able to enter nooks and crannies within the area. And if you look at it, the modus operandi of the kidnappers is the use of motorcycles. There are areas motorcycles can access that vehicles could not gain access,”.
While warning that no one should politicize the situation in the community, the Police spokesman emphasized that the Police has being responding to the people’s distress calls, adding that the current situation did not call for any blame game.
“For somebody to say there is no security there or security have not responded to their distress calls, security are there. They responded to their distress calls. The issue of blame game has not even arise”, he submitted.
The PPRO, however, called on the member of the public to always assist the Police with useful and intelligible information with which the Police would act upon.
He stressed that, “Members of the public should appreciate the efforts of the police. They should give credible and intelligence information to the police, so that this menace will be curtailed,”.
Speaking on the kidnapping of Mrs Kafayat Adedoyin, SP Wakil declared that up till now, issues surrounding her abduction were still very sketchy, adding however that the police is working to unravel her kidnap.
The community in recent times has been under attack by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers who have been kidnapping some residents of the community and killed two persons in the process, including a senior staff member of The Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, Engineer Mohammed Garbage Abubakar.
The latest attack was that of a mother of three, one Mrs Ruqayya Odedoyin, who was kidnapped from her resident in the early hours of last Friday, while her children were locked up in the house by the kidnappers when taking her away.
The recent insecurity in the community led some residents, particularly the youth to block the Bauchi-Dass road for some hours on Friday to protest the rampant kidnapping in the community.
