SARS disbandment created vacuum in fight against insecurity – IGP

Performing Inspector-Primary of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has said the disbandment of the Specific Anti-Theft Squad (SARS) created a vacuum in Nigeria’s Police effort at stopping insecurity.

Speaking on the weekly Ministerial briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Crew on the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Alkali said the morale of the personnel of the facility had remained dampened with aftermath of the #EndSARS protest and the newest assaults throughout the Southeast.

Insisting that regulation enforcement officers have not been ready to fill the vaccum the disbandment created, the IGP added that the security state of affairs stabilizes most events nonetheless with pockets of points throughout the nation.

Alkali moreover said they’ve recorded successes in opposition to secessionists and criminals throughout the southeast, nonetheless have been unable to prosecute and produce them to justice because of the continued strike by judiciary staff.