According to the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, “...The Assistant Inspectors – General of Police Zone 5, (Benin); Zone 6, (Calabar) and Zone 9 (Umuahia) as well as all Commissioners of Police in the affected States in the South East and neighbouring States have also been directed to henceforth maximally exercise their statutory Mandate in relation to prevention and disruption of any gathering that threatens public order and national cohesion. “Any person or group of persons so arrested in furtherance to the enforcement of this order will be made to face the full wrath of the law.”
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