IGP Egbetokun Visits Kebbi After Schoolgirls’ Kidnap

By: Aremu Toyeebaht

Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, on Tuesday arrived in Kebbi State following the abduction of students from Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga.

The visit comes amid growing public concern over renewed attacks on schools in the North-West.

According to  a televised channel, Egbetokun is scheduled to meet with Governor Nasir Idris and later brief officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force in the state as part of efforts to strengthen the security response.

The police chief’s trip follows a high-level security briefing with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa on Sunday, where the rising cases of mass abductions in Kebbi, Niger and Kwara states were reviewed.

Present at the meeting were senior military and intelligence chiefs, including the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyode; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Kelvin Aneke; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Idi Abbas; Chief of Defence Intelligence, Major General E.A.P. Undiendeye; Chief of Army Staff, Major General Waidi Shaibu; and the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Tosin Ajayi.