This is part of the ongoing police reform to provide local solutions to local problems of crimes.
The deployment followed the recent promotion of senior police officers.
A disquiet over prolonged salary delays is reverberating amongst officers across the country.
The commissioner wants officers to rise up to security challenges of ember months.
The police may proceed to charge the officers nonetheless.
The inspector-general cited a section of the Constitution that allows officers to kill if they have reasonable justification.
The police inspector-general conducted an on-the-spot assessment of Lagos on Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear whether President Muhammadu Buhari endorsed the clearly divisive comments of the Northern leaders.
Nigerians have consistently pushed back against regulation of social media, with rights activists dismissing it as a threat to free speech.
Mr. Adejobi said that the police chief charged the senior officers of the command to always supervise their men.
