Afolabi Babatola, the commissioner of police for Adamawa state, has ordered an investigation into the recent attack on the state police headquarters.A confrontation between state police and military officers near Target Junction, in the Yola North Local Government Area of the state, resulted in the attack on the police headquarters. Jacob Daniel, a police inspector, was killed in the attack on the police complex.
Residents of Yola were reportedly alarmed when gunmen reportedly stormed the state police headquarters in Jimeta, Yola North Local Government Area, early on Wednesday morning.According to a source cited in a Daily Trust story, the attackers were military men seeking retribution for what they believed to be the police’s supposed assassination of a military official. In response, the state police command on X (previously Twitter) issued a tweet signed by SP Suleiman Nguroje, the state police public relations officer, stating that the CP has ordered a “immediate investigation into the matter with a view to ensuring peace and justice.”
The Command holds the lives of all security personnel sacrosanct, and such unwarranted conflict would be strictly treated in accordance with extant laws, according to the state PPRO, which stated that the CP “warned that attacks on all security officers in the line of duty would no longer be tolerated under whatever guise. “In addition to highlighting the importance of cooperating with other sister security agencies to “protect the fundamental rights of security operatives in order to enable them to advance their sacred mandate of serving & protecting the citizens better,” the CP emphasised the “commitment of the Command to the protection of lives and property.”
“The top management of both security agencies is doing everything legally possible to address the situation,” the post said, “but the police boss appealed for calm.”