US Security Alert: Police Launch Special Operation In FCT

Following the security alert issued by the U.S. Embassy in Abuja to American citizens on likely terrorist attacks in the Nigeria’s capital city, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has launched Operation Darkin Gaggawa in the FCT.

Force PRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, while reacting to the alert, said the inspector-general of police, IGP Usman Baba, in his “zeal and strategies to decimate activities of non-state actors and other criminal elements in the FCT and other parts of the country and to analyze and de-escalate threats gathered from various intelligence at the Force’s disposal, U.S advisory inclusive; announced the immediate commencement of a counter terrorism incident simulation exercise codenamed “Operation Darkin Gaggawa.”

He further said the exercise will hold within the Force Headquarters and the Police Officers Wives Association School opposite the Force Headquarters, Abuja, between Tuesday, 25 and Wednesday, 26 October, 2022.

The police also said the exercise will involve diversion of traffic, use of blank ammunition, and other operational manpower and assets and are designed to improve interoperability and synergy between different units and formations of the Force in response to terrorist incidents and other violent crimes.

He also noted that the Force management was reviewing the alert, noting that a review of the advisory was necessary due to the fact that Police, as the lead agency in internal security, will not take any threat intelligence, either actionable or not, for granted; thus, there is no cause for alarm as all hands are on deck to collectively nip threats in the bud.

The Force PRO also said the IGP has ordered the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Federal Capital Territory, heads of tactical squads domiciled in the FCT and other state command commissioners of police to restrategize security management within their jurisdictions, as the Force headquarters will continually avail them with required support, logistics and deployments necessary for providing safety to all and sundry in Nigeria.

He also assured the residents of the FCT that the will ensure safety of lives and property within the country via the effective deployment of tactical and operational assets for effective intelligence gathering and proactive policing.

He further reassures Nigerians of a safe and secured country for all, while noting that the NPF will continually work with other security agencies to make every part of Nigeria safe, especially the FCT.