IGP Idris reacts days after police officers took photographs with Nnamdi Kanu

IGP Idris reacts days after police officers took photographs with Nnamdi Kanu

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has declared that the force will not take it lightly with two of its officers who recently took photographs with Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and had been touring states to gain more support. In one of such tours, he met the policemen at a checkpoint who excitedly posed for photographs with him. Reacting to the photographs that went viral days later, IGP Idris, who was in Lagos, said he was not happy with what happened that day. He also said the police would be tough in handling the issue as it was very bad for professional policemen to act the way the officers did on seeing Kanu. Idris, who described Kanu as one troubling the unity of Nigeria, said the action of the policemen that day proved double loyalty He said the police force was being sanitized to meet the aspirations of the people. He revealed that the police would create new 88 area commands to meet the level of insecurity in the country.