New Zone 17 Police AIG resumes in Ondo, Ekiti

DAMISI OJO,Akure 

A new Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Mr. Etim Ene-Okon has been deployed to take charge of Zone 17 covering Ondo and Ekiti States.

He assumed duty in Akure, the Ondo state capital, the headquarters of the new Zone.

Ene Okon promised to sustain relative stability and peace in the two states.

According to him, he would get proper briefing from the two police state commands on how to tackle isolated cases of crimes.

On the recent killings of Ondo State bound travellers in Plateau State by gunmen, the new AIG appealed to the people of Akoko area to remain calm as the Inspector General of Police, the Ondo state and the federal governments were working hard to fish out perpetrators for punishment.

Ene-Okon cautioned against reprisal attack in Akokoland over the Jos killings, promising that justice would be done.

Until his recent posting to Zone 17 Akure, Ene-Okon was the AIG Zone 9, Umuahia.

He was received by the Ondo State Commissioner of police, Bolaji Salami and other top police hierarchy.

The AIG is a graduate of Political Science from the University of Ibadan popularly known as The Premier University  and bagged his Msc in Public Administration from the University of Uyo.

He enlisted into the Force as a Cadet ASP in 1988, the pioneer set of the Police Academy.

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