A total of 128 policemen died on duty in the past three months in Nigeria, the Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris said Wednesday.
The police personnel died while preventing attacks or ensuring law and order in various parts of the country, Idris said in a statement.
The police chief cited recent killings by bandits in the northwestern state of Zamfara, the southeastern state of Anambra, and in Okrika waterways in the oil-rich Rivers State as “disturbing cases in point.”
He said efforts have been intensified to halt the trend of killing.
