ABDULLAHI ISAH, Maiduguri
The newly deployed commissioner of Police for Borno State Mr. Shuaibu Lawal Gambo has said that the force has lost over 1,000 of its men to the insurgency in the Northeast.
CP Gambo who disclosed this when he paid a courtesy call to State Governor Kashim Shettima at the Government House, Maiduguri, Tuesday, said the state will soon witness a lasting peace.
Gambo assured of his determination to ‘work assiduously to ensure the insurgency that is ravaging the country is brought to an end within the stipulated December deadline given by President Muhammadu Buhari.’
“The IGP has given me a mandate to come and serve the people of Borno state. By God`s willing we will work hard to see that Borno regains its lost glory as the ‘Home of Peace,’ said CP Gambo.
He commended the good people of Borno state for cooperating with security agencies by giving useful information just as he urged them ‘to continue the good work,’ admitting that the state government also within its meagre resources has assisted the police and other security agencies in the affective discharge of their duties.
Responding, Governor Shettima said with the new commissioner’s background as the immediate past commissioner in charge of counter terrorism, he believes that ‘the IGP is putting a round peg in a round hole’ and that ‘he will bring his experience to bear in bringing to an end the insurgency.’
“The Borno state government will continue to give the police all necessary support to succeed, as no meaning full development could be achieve without peace”.
Shettiima requested the police High command to equip the police in the state with sophisticated weapons, as ‘the lunatics called Boko Haram have more sophisticated weapons.’
He said the state government has procured 40 Hilux vehicles, renovated Benisheik and Gwange and Jakana Police stations, assuring that the government will continue to support the police to achieve their mandate.
