BEVERLY HILLS, May 20, (THEWILL) – The Commissioner of Police in FCT, Mr Wilson Inalegwu, has declared that the command has not witnessed any clash between farmers and herdsmen in the territory.
Inalegwu who made the revelation in Abuja, on Friday, added that this was because of the timely intervention and proactiveness of the command.
“We don’t have incident of clash between the farmers and herdsmen in the FCT because of timely intervention and proactiveness of the command,” he told NAN.
“We had a situation around Waru, but it was quickly nipped in the bud, in fact they didn’t allow it to get to the police.
“If I say today I need to see the entire Fulanis resident in the FCT, within a few hours all of them will be here,” he said declaring that the police and the herdsmen have a good working relationship that was yielding result.
He added that where the command had challenges was some of the border communities but that he had appealed to those of them resident in the FCT to collaborate with the police for them to be protected from the roving herdsmen.
“To check the activities of the roving herdsmen, I told them to report any strange herdsmen to the police,” he said.
“We are going to hold similar meetings in the Area commands and Divisions. The commissioner noted that if all the stakeholders would build close partnership with the police, crime would have been considerably managed in the territory.
“If all of us can forge a close partnership in the FCT, then we have managed crime in the territory.”
He commended the residents for their cooperation with the police in checking crime in the territory.
Story by David Oputah
