Adamawa State Police Command on Thursday deployed hundreds of its officers and men ahead of planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari, to the state Tomorrow.
However, the command has ordered for the closure of Airport road to Yola town as from 7:00am, until the time Buhari departs Yola to Abuja.
President Buhari is expected to visit Adamawa on Friday to condole family and the state over the demise of Ahmed Joda.
It is against this backdrop that the state police command on Thursday deployed its personnel for surveillance in order to maintain law and order before, during and after the visit.
The Commissioner of Police in a statement by the command's spokesman, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, and made availabnle to NEWS PLATFORM on Thursday, ordered officers to display high level of professionalism and operate within the context of the law.
"In an effort to sustain the existing public order and public safety in the state, the Commissioner of Police, CP Aliyu Adamu Alhaj, has ordered the deployment of additional operational assets including Police Surveillance and Operational teams, Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Crowd/Traffic Control Units to carry out convert surveillance as well as confidence-building patrols within the state in conjunction with sister security agents", Nguroje said.
" The CP is assuring the good people of Adamawa of the synergy among all security agencies will be into play and that the force is committed to working with other other patriotic stakeholders toward ensuring public order in the State before, during and after the visit of Mr President", he added.
He said that the CP being the head of internal security in the state is already on ground to coordinate the security deployment and ensure all things being equal the visit of Mr. President is hitch free and called on the general public to coordinate themselves and cooperate with the security agents in the course of discharging our constitutional duty.
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