Inspector General of Police Olatunji Disu has expressed optimism that Nigerians would be proud of the conduct of police personnel before, during and after the 2027 general elections.
Disu spoke while answering questions from journalists after the launch of a book, “The Origin of Women in Nigeria Police Force”, authored by 96-year-old retired DCP Dame Stella Okuyiga.
Okuyiga was one of the first 20 pioneer female Officers to join the NPF.
In a response to the questions, the IGP said “I want to let you know that we just finished a conference of all commissioners of police and other senior officers. We have had two or three elections recently, and you can see the police did very well, and we did too.
“We have now brought all these experiences together, where we did well and where we did not do well, so that we can perform better in this big election that everybody is looking up to.
“I give you my word. Nigeria Police will do so well, and we will make Nigeria Police so proud, and we will make Nigerians proud.”
On the book, Disu said the author was among the first women to join the Nigerian police in 1955, and that the force identifies with her milestones in life. “Mama is 96 years old, and she has taken her time to put all her experience, institutional knowledge that she has down in the book for us to be able to study for the generations coming, for women police in the next generation to have something to look up to.
“We in the police, we are starting up the history of not leaving our own, not forgetting our own.
“We are going to ensure that we get copies of this book for all police training institutions, for all police officers to go through to see what it was like to be police officers,” Disu said.
In her remarks, the nonagenarian author said: “This book launch today is an important day in my life because the book itself is there. But I still live on my life. I still live on because this book will be in libraries all over the world, and they’ll be reading it.
“So I’m so happy that with all that is happening today, I will continue to live forever.”
