IGP Solomon Arase

Nigeria’s  Inspector-General of Police,  Solomon  Arase has directed all State Commands Commissioners of Police (CPs) and the FCT to, as a matter of urgency, convene town hall meetings in their respective State Commands.

And he also ordered the AIGs to supervise the fora.

 Arase said the  move is to address specifically the misinformation, anxiety and animosity being generated in relation to the current security challenges associated with local communities and herdsmen.

He directed that the proposed meetings should be held at State and Area Commands as well as at Divisional levels, to enhance the process of reassurance policing and need for peaceful coexistence and sensitivity of each community’s value, space and interest.

In a statement by ACP Kolawole Adebisi, Arase asked that participants at each meeting be drawn from all strategic security stakeholders which include traditional rulers, community leaders, public officials, religious actors, youths bodies, local vigilante groups, women/market associations, Police Community Relations Committee, other sister security agencies, professional bodies, media, State and non-State actors, among others.