BREAKING NEWS, Security
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IBRAHIM K. Idris, acting inspector general of police, IGP, has paid a courtesy visit on Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), comptroller-general of Customs, on July 28, at the Customs headquarters, Abuja.
The IGP’s visit is to foster inter-Agency cooperation and collaboration to fast track sustainable working relationships between the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Customs Service in ensuring adequate security in the country. The IGP underscored the fact that police partnership with other security agencies makes the tasks of crime control and management much easier in the country.
The IGP used the opportunity of the visit to inform the comptroller-general of the establishment of Joint Control Centre, JCC, at the Police Headquarters, Abuja, which will serve as a platform for other sister security agencies to engender cooperation in operational areas. The IGP thanked the comptroller-general of Customs for the warm reception accorded him and his entourage.
Responding, Ali congratulated the IGP on his appointment, adding that from his track records, he has no doubt that Nigeria has a very competent IGP.
The comptroller-general of customs expressed his gratitude to the Nigeria Police Force for the partnership and assistance the Force has given to the Nigerian Customs at the border posts and other areas in discharge of their official duties. He pleads that the IGP should sustain and strengthen this partnership.
The comptroller-general maintained that with the present state of security and terrorism in the country, there is every need to collaborate and fight these challenges. He also told the IGP that the Nigerian Customs is willing to learn more from the Nigeria Police Force in areas of Arms handling and other operations, especially in the running of Micro Finance Bank to be owned by the Nigerian Customs, according to press release signed by Don Awunah, Force public relations officer.
— Aug 3, 2016 @ 14:30 GMT
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