Law & Crime
Police and NDLEA Clash Over Arrest Of Alleged Drug Suspect In Bayelsa

By Our Reporter
There was pandemonium at the Ekeki Police Division in Yenagoa as a violent confrontation ensued between the police and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday.
Our correspondent gathered that some NDLEA operatives were in the area to arrest a woman suspected to be a drug peddler and had even made entry in the police records before carrying out their assignment.
However, just as they were going about their operation, the policemen from the Ekeki Police Division obstructed the NDLEA operatives and it resulted to an altercation.
In the resulting confrontation, several shots were fired which caused panic among residents in the area, an eyewitness told our reporters on Thursday
“As I was at the Bayelsa Newspaper Corporation, I heard some shots, about six shots, and I decided to find out. As I got to the Ekeki Police Division, I saw a confrontation between the police and NDLEA operatives,” the eyewitness said.
It was gathered that two operating vehicles of the NDLEA were shot in the process by the police to prevent the agency from taking the suspect away.
The eyewitness further stated that it was as if the police were allegedly providing cover for the drug suspect to carry out her drug business in the vicinity of the police division.
“The incident has made people to suspect that the police are allegedly providing some kind of support for the woman to do drug business in the area,” he said.
When contacted, NDLEA spokesman, Mr Howells Oba, said “Our men went for operation behind Ekeki Police Division. Our man made entry in the police station.”
On the the shooting, Oba said, “They shot two of our vehicles tired and we are trying to see how we can take them out.”
According to him, the agency will make a formal statement on the situation, but said they are trying to resolve the issue and restore peace.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Musa Mohammed, said he was hurrying to the scene to find out what happened.
“I am going there now to find out what happened,” Mohammed stated.All efforts to hear fro from him proved untill the time of filling this report.
Law & Crime
Niger State AG, Commissioner for Justice seeks collaboration with Police to end thuggery, Youth restiveness

By Uthman Baba-Al-Naseer, Minna
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Niger State Barrister Nasiru Mua’zu, has requested for a collaboration with the Niger State Police Command to bring an end to the activities of thuggery and youth restiveness in Minna the Niger State Capital.
He assured the Niger State, Command of his Ministry supports in ensuring that the increasing Proportion of youths restiveness and other security Challenges in the state are brought to an end.
The Attorney General who stated this while on a courtesy visit to the Commissioner of Police in Niger State, CP Abudullahi Adamu Elleman in his office Monday, noted that the office of the Attorney General is worried with the activities of ” these miscreants that have been making Minna the state capital inhabitable in recent times”
According to the Commissioner for Justice, members of the public also need to support relevant security agencies in the state with the needed information on the activities of these miscreants ” so that they can be taken away from the streets in the general interest of the citizens”
Adding, “As you all known police and other security forces as well as the courts cannot perform any magic neither they are magicians.
” Without Any vital information from the Public on the identity of these miscreants and their hideouts you cannot expect any magic from the security agencies. So all stakeholders must collaborate with the relevant security agencies to flush out these youths from our midsts” he asserted
Speaking further, Nasiru Mua’zu described as disturbing the undue interference of some prominent individuals and parents on the prosecution of their children involvement in criminality warning that full wrath of the law will be visited on such parents.
The Attorney General assured that the Judiciary will continue to leave up its constitutional mandate in ensuring the full Prosecution of the miscreants and appropriate punishment are mated on them if found guilty noting that unnecessary interference as the factor responsible for the effective Prosecution of the miscreants
Receiving the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Police CP Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, applauded the Commissioner for Justice for the visit and assure that the Command under his leadership will synergize with the office of the Attorney General in ensuring the speedy dispensation of Criminal Justice in the state.
He noted that the Police, as a critical stakeholders in the Criminal administration of Justice would continue to partner with the Ministry of Justice in making the state unsafe for Criminal minded elements in the state
CP Adamu Elleman requested the support of the office of the Attorney General for training and retraining of investigating Police Officers (IPO) this according to the Commissioner of Police will improve the capacity of the Police investigators for effective performance.
He told the Attorney General that legal department of the Command will be given the needed empowerment for effective Prosecution of cases and the legal department will be monitored to perform.
Law & Crime
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