"Use your firearms when your life is in danger" – IGP orders policemen (Watch)

Mohammed Adamu, the Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, has advised policemen across the country to use their firearms to protect themselves whenever they are in the face of any form of danger.

The IG gave the advice while addressing police officers as of late.

Adamu is right now on a tour to different state commands to assess the level of destruction each command suffered during the civil unrest that broke out across the nation after thugs hijacked the #EndSARS movement.

Numerous police officers were killed and many stations set ablazed in the wake of the unrest.

While, speaking to the officers during a visit, he said;

“All that happened in terms of attacks on the police and police stations, should not stop us from coming out to perform our constitutional duties. But while we are performing this constitutional duties, we must also protect ourselves because every policeman is a human being and is also entitled to human rights protection.

Don’t forget your force order 237. You read and digest it very well. You know when you should use your firearms. You use your firearms in a lawful manner.

One of the ways you use your firearms is when your life is in danger and there is no other way through, then you use your firearms. Does it make sense for a policeman to die when he is carrying a rifle?”

Watch the video of him addressing them below…

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The Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu, has instructed police officers to use their firearms lawfully. He advised them to result to the use of firearms if they perceive their live is in danger. He made this known when he visited Edo state yesterday, November 4. "Does it make sense for an officer carrying arm to be killed?" - He questioned. #igp #police #firearms #ttr #thetattleroom

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