AS part of efforts to check crime in Enugu State, the Police, last week, extended an enlightenment/sensitization exercise on security matters to tricycle operators in the state capital. The event took place at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Campus 2, Enugu.
The police personnel embarked on training of the tricyclists on necessary skills that would enable them to collaborate with security agencies in ensuring sanity in the Coal City State.
It was learnt that the need for tricycle operators in the state to always be law abiding, safety and security conscious as well as to be partnering the police were stressed at the workshop.
Speaking at the occasion, the Stare Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amarizu, said there was the need for the operators to be law abiding in order to run away from issues that will expose them to be in conflict with the law.
Amarizu further advised them to close ranks with the police for a safe and secured environment, urging them “to report promptly any threat to security of their environment as well as their smooth operations to the police and other relevant security agencies.”
He also told the participants that “the state police command, under the close watch of State Commissioner of Police, Danmallam Mohammed, had intensified action against any form of extortion of tricyclists by personnel at stop and search as the command had promptly mobilised its x-squad and monitoring unit to that effect and with a view to fishing out any erring personnel for necessary disciplinary action”
The police pokesman also released the command’s distress call numbers and social media contacts for easy partnership with the group and advised them to report through the appropriate authority about any perceived case of extortion .
Earlier, the state chairman of the Association comrade Benjamin Ikah had thanked the police image maker for the sensitization which he described “as right step from a right direction”.
He also commenced Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for his support to the tricyclists in the state, urging his colleagues to be law abiding.