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Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police (IGP), says any officer caught taking bribes or abusing human rights during the lockdown will be dealt with “squarely.”

On Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari extended the lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus by another 14 days.

Speaking at the daily press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, Adamu said the force has already taken measures to check any excess by any officer.

The inspector-general of police said it is the “civic responsibility” of Nigerians to report these excesses to the appropriate quarters.

“In the situation where some security agents take bribes, that cannot be tolerated and that is not what they have been told to do and it is the institutional values of the police,” he said.

“Such individuals when identified, as the civic responsibility, we need to report such people for actions to be taken so as to prevent such acts.

“We deployed our escort personnel, these are police officers that police the police to check these kinds of abuses of human rights and untoward activities like this bribe taking. Anybody caught, we will deal with them squarely.

“Livestock and agricultural produce are part of the essential items that have been allowed to move freely and if there is any delay caused by any security – like I emphasized, when I leave here I’d give Nigerians telephone numbers of people that can easily be contacted to report untoward activity of security agents.”