Vice President, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo this morning arrived the residence of the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben
Fasoranti, over the murder of his daughter, Mrs Funke Olakunrin along
Benin-Sagamu on Friday last week by suspected herdsmen.
The Vice President, who arrived
at 9:10am, was accompanied by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and
Special Adviser to the president on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu,
described the killing of the 58-year-old daughter of the Afenifere Leader as a
massive tragedy.
Speaking to journalists at the
Akure residence of Pa Fasoranti, Prof. Osinbajo reiterated the importance of
community policing system to combat crimes in the country and also explained
the importance of intelligence gathering for effective policing.
“As you know, I’m here to
commiserate with the families of Olakunri and Pa Rebeun Fasoranti.
“The President has very recently
met not only the service chiefs but also the IGP and he has laid out a new
policy of the community policing.
“One of the most important things
is this sort of crimes, because they are largely economic crimes, people are
trying to make money by kidnapping.
“Another important thing is the
intelligence gathering that is why we have the community policing system where
policemen would be trained in their own local government and they would remain
there,” he said.
According to Osinbajo, the
government would also be engaging the military to mount the flash points on the
roads in order to boast its community policing system.
He explained further that the
Inspector General Police (IGP) had already committeed to ensuring that there
was full coverage of the police, and even helicopters.
“As close as we get to the
community policing structure that we expect to have while we are engaging the
Army so that there will be a bit of more military presence especially along the
roads.
“This is to fasten the search for
these killers and also to ensure that there is adequate presence to deter this
kind of terrible situation from reoccurring.
“We are looking at the whole
security architecture and trying to ensure that we are able to scale up and
ensure that we are able to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians.
“Security in a big country like
Nigeria as you can imagine the challenge is dynamic and the we also have to be
consistently dynamic in ensure that we are able to beat the challenges as they
appear.
“I think that we can be very
hopeful that we would see peace and calm as some of the steps we are taking
come fruition.
“You know also we meet with the
Governors in South West and in the different zones and everybody is coming to
ensure that security is adequate and every feels safe and secure,” Osinbajo
said.
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