Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has revealed that the crime rate has declined in the country.
The IGP made the declaration while addressing State House Reporters after meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu alongside Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa.
Egbetokun noted that the president charged them to continue to synergise to reduce crime to the barest minimum.
Egbetokun said, “This is a routine security meeting we had with Mr President where we had the opportunity to give him security briefs. This we have been doing regularly. Mr President is satisfied with our report; he has challenged us to continue to work together and improve our synergy.”
“As Inspector General of Police, we have records of all reported crimes across the country and can tell you that the crime rate is declining in Nigeria. Records don’t lie; the records are there so I can assure you that we will continue to do what we are doing to maintain the decline in the crime rate.”
Also, the Chief of Defence staff said, “Nigeria relies a lot on what we produce and its mandate is for us to restore full produce, we are targeting 2.1m bpd which is achievable so we are taking steps to ensure that all that is required to be done is done.”
“The President is aware of the ills and cries of the communities and he is not going to let them down, the communities should be rest assured that steps are going to be taken to address their grievances so that productions will continue.” Extra
“For the criminals, those that are hell-bent on stealing our infrastructure, stealing our crude for whatever reasons their days are numbered. They should be rest assured that we are coming after them and we want to assure Nigerians that we all need to put our heads together to achieve this success. Nobody can do it alone, no single service, no single individual can do this.”
