Insecurity: UNICAL VC calls for external security presence on campus

Prof. Florence Obi, Vice Chancellor (VC), University of Calabar, has solicited for a robust external security presence to avert all threats of insecurity on campus.

Obi made the call when the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Aminu Alhassan, paid her a courtesy call in her office on Monday in Calabar.

The VC said that the call became necessary following the recent threats to lives and cases of armed robbery recorded in the staff quarters of the institution.

Obi explained that such threats, if not checked, other crimes like kidnapping, cultism and hard drug intake, which had been successfully managed over the past few years, would resurface on campus.

According to her, the university is still grappling with porous borders and insufficient security personnel to man all vulnerable entry and exit points.

The VC thanked Alhassan for the visit and his interest in the security operations and policing of the institution, and solicited for more interface between the Police command and the institution.

Speaking earlier, the Commissioner of Police assured the VC of the commitment of his command towards strengthening the security architecture in the institution.

He expressed his readiness to further strengthen the existing relationship between the institution and the Nigerian Police.

He noted that the Police, in collaboration with the internal security of the university, would intensify security surveillance in the institution to ward off criminals.

Alhassan assured the VC that gallant police officers would be deployed to the university to beef-up security on campus and it’s environs.