Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has urged the Nigeria Police, Ekiti State Command to be proactive and engage more in intelligence-gathering and community policing, rather than allowing criminals to perpetrate their heinous crimes before rising to the situation.
Oyebanji, who said that the security challenges facing Nigeria were enormous, however, commended the men of the command for maintaining a peaceful and safe atmosphere in the state.
The governor spoke in Ado Ekiti on Friday evening while presenting two Armoured Personnel Carriers, 10 operational vehicles and other security equipment and gadgets to the state command to improve and strengthen the security architecture of the state.
Oyebanji said a similar gesture will be extended to other security outfits in the state, stressing that the Friday presentation of vehicles was the first in a series of other plans to support and elevate operations of security agencies in the state.
Future Plans
He said his administration would not only overhaul and rejig the security architecture of the state, but would also do everything within its capacity to provide necessary logistics and all they need to function effectively and ensure that criminals were not allowed safe abode in the state.
Oyebanji said, “As we all know, the bedrock of good governance is peace and security without which no development is possible. It is in the realization of this that we have paid a lot of attention to the security of lives and properties in the state.
“Aside from isolated cases of kidnapping incidences reported in recent time, the state has been relatively peaceful and remained one of the most secured states in the country.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Brig. Gen. Ebenezer Ogundana (retd), lauded the synergy among all the security outfits in the state, adding that the new equipment would facilitate quick response to crimes and all forms of criminality in the state.
The Commissioner of Police in the State, Dare Ogundare, who said the equipment would allow police respond effectively and promptly to distress calls by citizens to security situations, however, solicited government support in fixing various faulty vehicles owned by the command that could be used to further support the force for adequate policing of the state.
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