The Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma has solicited maximum support and cooperation from the management of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO to tackle the prevalent kidnapping cases and other crimes being perpetrated around the institution.
The CP said actionable intelligence from the Varsity management would assist the Command and the other sister security agencies in providing maximum safety for her staff and students in the face of the security challenge.
CP Danjuma made the appeal when he led his management team on a courtesy visit to the FUTO Vice-Chancellor (VC), Professor Mrs. Nnenna N. Otti, in her office, weekend.
Recounting the recent bursting of a kidnapper’s hideout wherein four decomposing corpses suspected to be kidnapped victims were discovered in a forest spanning across FUTO, Avu, Nekede, Ihiagwa, and Obinze communities, the Imo Police boss said, “the Command is currently carrying out intense operations at the forest with the aim to clamp down on the criminally minded elements hibernating within these areas.”
According to him, “the Command is also meeting with other stakeholders of the areas including the community chieftains, leaders of the Hausa and Yoruba communities living in the area among others with the view of proffering ideas on how to end this security menace here.”
“We have received several complaints about the ongoing kidnapping cases and other crimes around this area and we are worried about it. As the police, we are concerned about the safety of you all here including that of the other staff and the entire students.
“So we are here basically to solicit the university’s support and partnership in our determined effort to stop this security issue. As we all know, security here is our collective responsibility and to achieve the desired success, we will continually count on your cooperation.” Danjuma told the VC and the other Varsity management team present at the visit.
Responding, Prof. Otti commended the CP for the visit and his relentless efforts in stamping out all forms of violent crimes in the State.
She assured him of a more robust relationship between the Command and the University, while also pledging to assist in solving the logistics challenge of the Ihiawa Police Division to encourage effective policing of the area and the state at large.
She said, “of truth, this is the first time a sitting CP is paying our University a courtesy visit and we are happy to have you here.
“I am a positive person and I believe that this visit will usher in a new dawn in the security of our university. Believe me, you can count on our support always.”
The CP was accompanied on visit by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, DCP Hamzat A Abdulkardir, Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB), ACP Lewi Suleiman, Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Owerri Urban, ACP Micheal Abattam, Divisional Police Officer in charge of Nekede, CSP Nsufor Stanley, DPO Ihiagwa, SP Nnachetam Remigus and other senior staff officers.
Photo caption:
Imo CP, Aboki Danjuma (m) and his management team in a group photograph with FUTO VC, Prof. Nnenna Otti (3rd left) and the Varsity senior staff when the CP paid her a courtesy visit at her office, weekend.
