By Michael Ofulue

The Commissioner of Police, Ondo State Police Command, Bolaji Salami has directed officers and men of the Command to go back to their duty posts.
He told them to remain committed to their primary assignment of protecting lives and property.
Salami in a statement by his public relations officer, ASP Tee Leo Ikoro said the event of EndSARS and its effect on the Command should be put behind, knowing it is one of the hazards “we must go through to protect the State and its citizens.
He stated further that they should see the EndSARS humiliation, torture and death on the Nigeria Police Force as a wake-up call that duty adding that such should therefore occupy the best of our heart and time.
The police boss said it is abundantly clear that the criminals who hijacked the peaceful EndSARS protest were afraid of confronting them; and so decided to work under the umbrella of a peaceful protest to lash out their vengeance on the Police.
“It will be foolhardy for any one of us as a Police officer to allow the rating in the public space that we are afraid and have withdrawn our services from citizens. It is for this reason that I am telling every officer in the Command to return fully to his duty post, more active, more tolerant and more professional than he was, so that this negative rating will fall precipitously before those who made it.”
He said it was wrong for police saddled with the duties of protecting lives and property to stay away from their core mandates.
“If we do, it shows that the death of our colleagues in the hands of those criminals during the EndSARS saga would be in vain.
” Let us therefore show them that we love this country passionately and we are committed to serving it, he stated.