No fewer than 20 police officers are still unaccounted for after
an attack on the Mobile Police Force Training Camp in Gwoza, Borno State by
Boko Haram insurgents. The Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba,
disclosed this Tuesday while speaking with State House correspondents after
meeting with Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja. He said that serious efforts were being made to locate the missing
security operatives. He also confirmed that 35 police officers were missing
from the training school when the insurgents struck initially, but that some of
them had either reported back to the school or to their families. He described
the turnout of some of the missing police officers as “impressive”,
noting: “Well, I must tell you that the turnout of those missing is still
impressive because we have been able to trace some of the officers who have
reported either back to their bases or their families. When you go through what
they went through, the likelihood of you knowing what to do is not very
tenable. There is a possibility that the decision of what to do may not be
easily comprehensible. So some went back to their homes but our concern is that
once they are in safety we are satisfied and the process of bringing them back
to their units has already commenced. He vowed that everything was being put in
place to ensure that all the policemen returned well and safe. “I must tell you
it is just less than 20 but we are still concerned with every one of them and
unless we are able to account for each and everyone of them we will not relent
in the efforts of tracing them,” he said.
Abba, who spoke extensively on the ongoing reorganisation in the
police said, it was intended not only to boost the morale of the personnel, but
also to raise their professional attainment.
Guardian Newspaper
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