Nine Policemen have been dismissed after investigations revealed they were complicit in various acts of criminal misconduct.
The Nigerian Police revealed in a statement on Tuesday, that was the action was a ‘major sting operation to checkmate corruption and professional misconduct within and outside the police’ and that personnel of the Force who use their official capacities to carry out or get involved in any misconduct were singled out and dealt with according to the law to serve as deterrent to others.
Personnel of the Force who erred and compromised in discharging their duties and betraying the official oath of office were arrested, subjected to internal disciplinary measures and punished according to the gravity of their offences. Some of the offences include aiding and abetting serious crimes, conspiracy with militants, and disappearance of explosives