NPF Deploy Special Team To Enforce Withdrawal Of Police Personnel From VIP Escort Duties

NPF deploy Special Team to enforce presidential directive on withdrawal of police personnel from VIP escort duties. 

Extensive monitoring exercise carried across key locations in Lagos, including the Lekki-Ikoyi Link bridge.

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has announced the deployment of a Special Enforcement Team to ensure full compliance with President Bola Tinubu’s directive prohibiting the use of police personnel for VIP escort and guard duties.

The NPF, in a statement by CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Force Public Relations Officer on December 6, said that the Force Headquarters has constituted a special enforcement team to monitor and ensure total adherence to the presidential order.

“On 6th December 2025, commencing at about 1000 hours, the enforcement team carried out an extensive monitoring exercise across key locations in Lagos State, including the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, the Domestic Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, and several other strategic points.”

“The exercise revealed a satisfactory and commendable level of compliance by officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force. No case of unauthorised deployment of police personnel for VIP escort duties was recorded during the monitoring, and consequently, no arrest was made.”

The statement added that the NPF remains resolute in redeploying its personnel to core policing duties aimed at enhancing general security, crime prevention, and protection of lives and property across the country.

“Members of the public are assured that the Nigeria Police Force will continue to enforce this policy nationwide without fear or favour and urges continued support as the Force works towards a more professional, efficient, and citizen-centered policing system.”

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