President Bola Tinubu has expressed satisfaction with official records presented to him by security agencies stating crime reduction in the country.

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, disclosed this on Friday, in an address to state house correspondents, after a security meeting with the President, alongside the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, at the Presidential Villa.

According to Mr Egbetokun, the President gave them marching orders to sustain the decline of criminality in the country which they vowed to actualise.

The IGP said, “This is a routine security meeting we had with Mr President where we had the opportunity of giving him security briefs. This we have been doing regularly. Mr President is satisfied with our report; he has challenged us to continue to work together and improve our synergy. As Inspector General of Police, we have records of all reported crimes across the country and can tell you that the crime rate is declining in Nigeria. Records don’t lie; the records are there so I can assure you that we will continue to do what we are doing to maintain the decline in the crime rate.’’

Promising to deal with the activities of oil thieves in the country, Mr Musa, assured that with the collective efforts of security agencies, stakeholders and the communities, the country would meet its target of producing 2.1 million barrels per day.

The CDS said, “Nigeria relies a lot on what we produce and its mandate is for us to restore full production. We are targeting 2.1 million bpd which is achievable so we are taking steps to ensure that all that is required to be done is done. The President is aware of the ills and cries of the communities and he is not going to let them down. The communities should rest assured that steps are going to be taken to address their grievances so that productions will continue.

“For the criminals, those that are hell-bent on stealing our infrastructure, stealing our crude for whatever reasons their days are numbered. They should rest assured that we are coming after them and we want to assure Nigerians that we all need to put our heads together to achieve this success. Nobody can do it alone, no single service, no single individual can do this. We all need to work together including the states. We understand that the communities are doing so much. The President will address those issues to ensure that we have full production.’’

The National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Director-General of the Department of State Service, Yusuf Bichi; Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar; Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Kemi Nandap, amongst others, attended the meeting.