The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has assured Nigerians that the police will ensure professionalism during the forthcoming general election.
Disu said the conduct of police personnel before, during and after the election would make Nigerians happy and proud of the force.
He spoke in Port Harcourt on Tuesday night while fielding questions from journalists after the launch of a book, “The Origin of Women in Nigeria Police Force”, written by 96-year-old Dame Stella Okuyiga, DCP (rtd), one of the 20 pioneer female officers of the NPF.
Responding to questions on police preparedness for the 2027 election, Disu said the Force had organised a conference of Commissioners of Police across the country to ensure professionalism during the polls.
He said: “I want to let you know that we just finished a conference of all Commissioners of Police and other senior officers.
“We have had two or three elections recently and you can see that the police performed very well and we did so well. We have now brought all these experiences together; where we did well and where we did not do well, so that we can perform better in this big election that everybody is looking forward to.
“I give you my word. Nigeria Police will do so well and we will make Nigeria Police so proud, and we will make Nigerians proud.”
On Okuyiga’s book, Disu noted that the author was among the first set of women to join the Nigeria Police in 1955, adding that the force is proud of her achievements.
He said: “Mama is 96 years old and she has taken her time to put all her experience, institutional knowledge that she has, down in the book for us to be able to study it for generations to come, for women police officers in the next generation to have something to look up to.
“We in the police, we are starting up the history of not leaving our own, not forgetting our own.
“We are going to ensure that we get copies of this book for all police training institutions, for all police officers to go through to see what it was like to be police officers.”
However, the author, Okuyiga, DCP (rtd), expressed happiness that the publication was not just a book, but a part of her that would live on.
She said: “This book launch today is an important day in my life because the book itself is there. But I will still live on. I will still live on because this book will be in libraries all over the world and they will be reading it.
“So I am so happy that with all that is happening today I will continue to live forever.”
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