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IGP orders immediate withdrawal of personnel from Rivers LGA HQs
Kayode Egbetokun, inspector-general of police, has ordered the immediate withdrawal of police personnel from the secretariats of the 23 LGAs of Rivers state.
The officers had been deployed to “seal and safeguard” the LG secretariats.
Grace Iringe-Koko, police spokesperson in Rivers, announced the development in a statement on Monday.
“The newly deployed State Commissioner of Police, Bala Mustapha, conveyed the directives of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, for the immediate withdrawal of all police personnel previously deployed to seal and safeguard the Local Government Secretariats in the state,” the statement reads.
