2027 Elections: IGP Disu Promises Professional Policing, Says Nigerians Will Be Proud

The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has assured Nigerians that the conduct of police personnel before, during and after the 2027 general elections will make citizens proud of the force.

 

Disu gave the assurance while responding to questions from journalists after the launch of The Origin of Women in Nigeria Police Force, a book written by 96-year-old Dame Stella Okuyiga, a retired Deputy Commissioner of Police and one of the first 20 female officers to join the Nigeria Police Force.

 

The IGP said the police had convened a conference involving commissioners of police and other senior officers to strengthen professionalism and improve the force’s performance during the forthcoming elections.

 

He said lessons from recent elections had been reviewed to identify areas of success and shortcomings ahead of the 2027 general elections.

 

“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,” Disu said.

 

On Okuyiga’s book, the police chief said the retired officer joined the force in 1955 and had documented her experiences and institutional knowledge to guide future generations of policewomen.

 

He described the publication as an opportunity to preserve the history of women in the force and provide younger officers with a record of the challenges and achievements of their predecessors.

 

“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 it for the generations coming, for women police in the next generation to have something to look up to,” he said.

 

Disu added that the force was committed to preserving the contributions of its personnel and ensuring that their achievements were not forgotten.

 

“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,” he said.

 

Speaking at the event, Okuyiga expressed joy that the publication would preserve her experiences and allow her legacy to endure beyond her lifetime.

 

“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,” she said.