Following a report released in October 2016 by The Human Rights Watch claiming that some camp leaders, police officers, soldiers, vigilante groups and other authorities working at Internally Displaced Persons(IDP) camps in the North have been reportedly raping and sexually exploiting some of the female IDPs, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, should investigate this allegation. To this end, IGP Idris yesterday said that two Army officers and an Air Force officer have been indicted.
Idris spoke at an enlarged meeting he held with DIGs, AIGs and Commissioners of Police in Abuja on the security situation in the country. The IGP further said two police officers, one prisons officer and two Civilian JTF members have been arrested and are in police custody. He noted that operatives of the IGP Monitoring Unit were currently liaising with officials of the military services with a view to arresting the Army and Air Force officers, noting that after investigations, they will be charged to court. He said it was in a bid to prevent the re-occurrence of such acts that the Police Headquarters recently deployed women police officers to the IDP camps in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
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