Sokoto: Police deploy 5,000 for Jonathan’s visit

Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Aliyu Musa, said on Monday that about 5,000 police personnel had been mobilised to provide security during President Goodluck Jonathan official visit to the state on Tuesday (today).
He said all the assistant commissioners of police had been assigned to each of the identified routes President was expected to pass through.
He added that officers had been briefed on security modalities they were expected to adopt during and after Jonathan’s visit.
The security arrangement is preparatory to the inauguration of the N240m Almajiri Model School by President.
The school is one of the several promised by the President during his campaign.
Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, told journalists at a pre-inauguration press-Conference in Sokoto on Monday that all was set for the event.
According to him, the money provided by the fund, takes care of the construction of classroom blocks, provision equipment and furnishing of the school, provision of textbook as well as capacity building for the teachers.
Yakubu explained that this was part of efforts by the Federal Government to get over 9.5 million almajiris off Nigerian streets.
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