With Immediate effect, all police officers have been withdrawn from all Very Important Persons in the country.
This order is from the Inspector-General of Police to all VIPs in the country with exception of officers attached to Government Houses, the Senate President, and the Speaker House of Representatives
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The directives came in after the IGP disbanded the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the past 10 for high handedness and extrajudicial killings in an address.
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The latest directive was contained in a police wireless message dated October 21, 2020, addressed to all state Commissioners of Police.
The wireless signal with reference number, CB:4001/DOPS/SPU/FHQ/ABU/VOL./ORDER AND DIRECTIVES, said, “any commander who violates this order will bear the consequences.”
The signal, which was signed by the AIPOL, Protect, Force Headquarters, Abuja, read in part, “Any protect personnel found escorting or guarding any VIP with or without a firearm is deemed to be deployed by the commander and the commander will be sanctioned.”