IG warns police not to carry out reprisal attack on Navy

Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police, has issued a strict warning to police officers of the Cross River State Police Command not to retaliate Tuesday’s attack on the Akim Police Station in Calabar in which two policemen were killed by some ratings of the Nigerian Navy.

It was reported on Tuesday that a naval rating was shot in the shoulder by a policeman after arguments over traffic infractions. The situation later degenerated to an uproar which led to loss of lives and burning of a section of the Akim Police Station, along the IBB Way.

The Inspector-General of Police, who was represented by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Training and Capacity Development, Mr. Emmanuel Inyang, inspected the burnt facilities at the police station including two vehicles and said that an independent panel of inquiry would soon be set up to locate those behind the fracas.

The DIG, alongside the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Abubakar Marafa and the Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship Victory, Commodore Salihu Jibril, as well as the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, visited the two policemen injured at the Police Clinic and the naval rating at Navy Clinic in Calabar.