The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has declared that crime rate in the country is on the decline.
Addressing State House Reporters after meeting with President Bola Tinubu in company of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, the IGP said the president charged them to continue to synergise in order to bring crime to the barest minimum.
This is as the Chief of Defence Staff said measures were already in place to go after oil thieves.
Egbetokun said, “This is a routine security meeting we had with Mr President where we had the opportunity of giving him security briefs. This we have been doing regularly. Mr President is satisfied with our report; he has challenged us to continue to work together and improve our synergy.
“As Inspector General of Police, we have records of all reported crimes across the country and can tell you that crime rate is declining in Nigeria. Records don’t lie; the records are there so I can assure you that we will continue to do what we are doing to maintain the decline in the crime rate. ”
On his part, Musa said, “Nigeria relies a lot on what we produce and its mandate is for us to restore full produce, we are targeting 2.1m bpd which is achievable so we are taking steps to ensure that all that is required to be done is done.
“The President is aware of the ills and cries of the communities and he is not going to let them down, the communities should be rest assured that steps are going to be taken to address their grievances so that productions will continue.
“For the criminals, those that are hell bent on stealing our infrastructure, stealing our crude for whatever reasons their days are numbered. They should be rest assured that we are coming after them and we what to assure Nigerians that we all need to put our heads together to achieve this success. Nobody can do it alone, no single service, no single individual can do this.
“We all need to work together including the states, we understand that the communities are doing so much the President will address those issues to ensure that we have full production.”