By Ndahi MARAMA, Maiduguri
HE Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) zone 12, Mohammed Hadi Zarewa has relocated to Borno to supervise the security arrangement put in place to curb the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect that has been terrorizing the residence of Maiduguri and its environs.

Briefing pressmen at the police headquarters in Maiduguri, the AIG Mohammed Zarewa said his purpose of coming to Maiduguri was not to take over the operations of the police command in Borno, but to supervise the security arrangements put in place to curtail the activities of the Boko Haram sect in the state.

Alhaji Zarewa said that the IGP has directed the deployment of four units of mobile policemen to Maiduguri to compliment the efforts of those on ground to maintain security in the state.

He appealed to the people of the state to cooperate with security agencies by providing useful information that might lead to arrest of the hoodlums, stressing that these people lives within the public, so it is only by volunteering information that they will be arrested.

The police boss said that since resurface of the insurgence in July this year, 5 policemen and 6 civilians were killed, while 4 Ak 47 rifles were carted away from the slain policemen, adding they also recovered an explosive device at Lamisula which was yet to be exploded, while there was an explosion around the Monday market and post office area but nobody was injured.

The AIG stated that in the security business everybody is a stakeholder, saying, “gone a the days when identities of those who gave information to the police are easily identified, in these technological era one can hide his number and text the police some useful information without revealing their identities”.

He said “we have made some arrest but we cannot parade them because we are still investigating those arrested to ascertain whether they true members of the sect or not, and very soon we will made it known to the press”.

He appealed to parents to monitor their wards to know the type of people they associate with and also appealed to governments at all levels to create jobs to the unemployed youths as idleness is the cause of all anti social vices.

He also appealed to the general public to be security conscious and always report suspicious movement to the nearest security agents.