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 Crime Reporters Global Partners POCACOV in Campaign against Vices

The National Coordinator, Police Campaign Against Cultism And Other Vices POCACOV, ACP Oluwaseyi Olabisi Okuwobi and some members of her team, on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 played host to selected members of Crime Reporters Global, Nigeria, who came from across the country to congratulate the POCACOV 001 on her recent promotion to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP, and for strategic collaboration between the Crime Reporters Global and POCACOV, to further strengthening the campaign against cultism and other vices.

In his speech, the National Chairman, Crime Reporters Global, CRG, Nigeria, Comrade Tita Onyebuchi Nze said "We, selected Exco members of the CRG, Nigeria have come to congratulate you, our amiable madam POCACOV 001, on your well deserved recent promotion to the rank of ACP and subsequent decoration by the Inspector General of Police, himself, IGP Kayode Agbetokun".

"We felicitate with you, for your upliftment in the job and what God is using you to do in the country through POCACOV of the Nigeria Police. We thank the Inspector General of Police for his eagle eyes of fishing you out to serve as the National Coordinator of POCACOV, Comrade Tita said, "Our prayer is that may God continue to endow you in wisdom and ability to wax from strength to strength".

"As media professionals, we have also come to seek for ways of collaboration with the good works of POCACOV, to inject our modest efforts as critical stakeholders and partners, to sustain and further explore non-kinetic strategies in the approach against social vices in the country; so as to possibly reduce to the barest minimum, the hydraheaded monsters (cultism and other vices) currently bedevilling and devastatingly, overwhelming our youths and gradually subsuming our nation, Nigeria", saying, "its time to begin to nib the multifaceted challenges in the bud".

In her response, the National Coordinator POCACOV, ACP Oluwaseyi Olabisi Okuwobi, thanked the executive members of Crime Reporters Global, CRG, Nigeria, for their visit, felicitations and kind words, saying that the gesture is not taken for granted.

She explained that, "the main objective of POCACOV is to Create Alternative Pathways to Criminality" ACP Olabisi hinted that, some non-kinetic strategies being adopted by POCACOV include;

Catch them young

Extensive Media Advocacy

Sensitisation

Renunciation

Disarmament of (light and small medium arms)

Reintegration

Empowerment 

Decriminalisation

Campain Against Stigmatisation and more

Madam POCACOV 001 revealed that, 2025 is going to be a very busy year for POCACOV, saying, "there will be intensified activities throughout the nukes and crannies of the country".

ACP Oluwaseyi Olabisi thanked the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Agbetokun for finding her worthy to serve in the capacity of the National Coordinator, promising to do her best possible not to let him down, and to achieve quality verifiable results for the good of our dear fatherland, since, to whom much is given, much is expected.

She expressed her gratitude for the hands of fellowship extended by the the well experienced group of media professionals, Crime Reporters Global, Nigeria, to partner POCACOV, saying, that the collaboration between Crime Reporters Global and POCACOV, "is a well articulated symbiotic partnership"

The meeting which took place at the Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, Abuja, had in presence, the National Coordinator, POCACOV, ACP Oluwaseyi Olabisi, Okuwobi, Chairman POCACOV Southwest, Amb. Samuel Eniola, Head, National Community engagement, POCACOV, DSP Nwakaego Adoh, Chairman, Crime Reporters Global, CRG, Nigeria, Comrade Tita Onyebuchi, Nze, Secretary General CRG, Comrade Barth Ikiebe, and Exco member, Comrade Ijeoma, of the Armed Forces Radio, Abuja. END

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