Under the extant police Act signed in 2020 by President Muhammadu Buhari, the police are assigned the legal obligations of law enforcement and there are a plethora of provisions
On Saturday June 4, 2022, on the same day Mr. Zakari Umaru-Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner Nasarawa State of the National Population Commission was brutally killed in his house in Lafia Nasarawa State and just hours before the attack on St Francis Catholic Church Owo in Ondo State, criminals broke into the rectory of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Obangede, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State and abducted Rev. Fr. Christopher Onotu of the Catholic Diocese of Lokoja thereby throwing the sleepy community into sadness and fear.
On Saturday June 4, 2022, Mr. Zakari Umaru-Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner with the National Population Commission in Nassarawa State was shot dead before his family members in the Azuba Bashayi, Lafia North Development Area in Lafia Local Government Area of the State by suspected assasins. He was also a campaign agent to Mr. Labaran Makua former Minister of Information and ex-governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Nasarawa State.