*Our Airports
are Exclusive Security Zones-police
As part of deliberate efforts
towards averting any security breach and the need to protect critical
infrastructures, travellers, aircrew, airport staff and personnel at the nation’s
local and international airports, the Nigeria Police High Command has placed a
total ban on political, socio-cultural or religious gatherings within and
around airport premises, including tarmacs, lounges and other sensitive
security points.
Rising from a strategic security
meeting at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, Tuesday, the Police Authorities directed
the Airport Command Commissioners of Police and Commissioners of Police in
states hosting the airports to ensure that, in line with international best
practices, firm security measures are taken to safeguard the airports and their
critical infrastructures and to prevent a situation where the airports are
turned into places of political assemblies, religious worship and other social
receptions, as there are enough civic centres, town halls, assembly halls etc
for public meetings, carnivals and celebrations of all kinds.
While the Force is not unaware of
the constitutional rights of Nigerians to freedom of movement and assembly, it
makes bold to state that the enjoyment of these rights must be situated within
the bounds of the law and appropriate civil behaviour.
The Force therefore implores Nigerians
to cooperate with the Police in their effort at improving the maintenance of
effective safety and security at all the nooks and crannies of the airport. It
further calls on the Nigerian elite, political and opinion leaders to assist
the Police in the education and enlightenment of their fans, admirers,
supporters
and followers on the need to abide
by these rules, as failure to comply will attract appropriate legal sanctions.
Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of
Police, IGP MD Abubakar, CFR,
NPM, mni, psc
has reiterated his Administration’s unalloyed commitment towards eliminating
all forms of threat to internal security, even as he pledges a safe and conducive
environment for our democracy and democratic institutions to thrive.
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