…As Abiodun receives new Police boss
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has disclosed that his administration has acquired Drones for effective monitoring and response to criminal activities in the major highways across the State.
Speaking when he received the newly deplored Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tomi Oladimeji, who paid him a courtesy call in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the governor emphasized the need to effectively police the State, being the industrial hub, education and religious capital of the country.
“Recently, We have acquired Drones to allow us monitor, particularly, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and other major highways so that we can identify treat and respond to them with dispatch.
“CP Oladimeji, you have your job cut out for you. We have in the past had farmer/herders crisis, we are facing issues of cultism that has continue to be on the rise which we find very strange.
” There are issues of kidnapping here and there but I must thank the men and women of our law enforcement architecture including the Police, DSS, the military, Civil Defence and other members of our security architecture for the hard work that has earned us the enviable title as one of the most peaceful States in Nigeria”, the noted.
He said as the State with the highest number of industries and also serving as the education and religious capital, it was expected to have influx of people with it attendance challenges, adding that the desire of his administration is to have a crime free society to attract more investors to the State.
Governor Abiodun observed that despite numerous challenges facing the country, the State has remain peaceful, attributing the feat to the inter-agencies synergy among heads of security agencies in the State.
The governor appreciated the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Usman, for the warm reception when he visited the Police boss to intimate him on issues of cultism and kidnapping plaguing the State in recent time and for always deploying reputable and capable officers as Commissioners to the State, saying the deployment of a water Cannon and Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), by the IGP, would help in tackling crimes and criminalities in the State.
Welcoming the new CP to the State, governor Abiodun described him as a round peg in a round hole, a legal practitioner who is vast in judiciary and security matters, adding that his many years of traversing the nation as a police officer has prepared him for the task ahead.
He urged him to tap into his wealth of experience as someone who has the knowledge of the State terrain, to not only sustain the enviable record of his predecessors, but to surpass it by working with other security chiefs, to rid the State of crimes and criminalities.
Speaking earlier, CP Oladimeji said his mission in the State is to protect the lives of law abiding citizens to enable them enjoy the fruits of their labour.
According to the new Police boss, “we will be tough on criminals and friendly with law abiding citizens. I want to assure the governor and the citizens that we will not rest on getting rid of criminals out of Ogun State. All we need is cooperation of the people and assistant from the government”.