Retired Colonel Stan Labo speaks on the Army, police exchange over the killing of three policemen in Taraba State, saying the deployment of soldiers for internal security duties that ordinarily are the exclusive preserve of the police can sometimes be problematic. 

A retired Assistant Inspector General, AIG, of Police, Ambrose Aisabor, says so long as there is no proper sharing of information among security agencies, the rivalry would remain a regular occurrence.

A retired Police Commissioner, who served in Lagos State among others, Abubakar Tsav, in this interview, traces the rivalry between the Army and police to military rule, saying the powers of the police were appropriated by the military after the January 15, 1966 coup. He also offers solutions to the age-long bitterness between the two security agencies.

Whereas investigations may have established links between criminal intent and the killing of three policemen by army personnel, an underlying factor exists. It is so crucial to be dismissed.

Last year, precisely July 16, 2018, Jibia local government area of Katsina State was in the news following a torrential rainfall which claimed over 50 lives with some corpses washed away and later recovered from as far as Niger Republic.