- New CP assumes office, promises to review security architecture
Residents of Ibukun Oluwa community at Ajebandele Area of Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State, have called on the state government to come to their rescue, in the wake of the recent security threat to life and property in the Area.
The people came out to register their displeasure over the death of a businesswoman identified as Mrs. Bosede Adewunmi who was killed after she was attacked and robbed by armed men.
According to Miss Oluwatobiloba Adekunle who was with the deceased in her shop when the heinous crime was perpetrated by the criminal elements, the incident occurred at about 1:30pm on Tuesday.
Miss Adekunle, who narrowly escaped being attacked, said that Mrs. Adewunmi was busy attending to her store, when the three unsuspecting armed men suddenly barged inside her shop and stabbed her severally before shooting her and made away with her money.
The victim was confirmed dead a few hours after she was taken to the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital Ado Ekiti due to multiple stab wounds in her body and gunshot.
Her remains have been deposited at the EKSUTH morgue.
Still perplexed by the ugly incident, the husband of the deceased, Mr. Adekunle could only mutter a few words, seeking the assistance of the state government to help him fish out the perpetrators of the heinous killing of his wife.
In separate interviews the Chairman Ibukun Oluwa landlord Association, Mr. Olarewaju Ajayi and the deceased landlord, Mr. Femi Olowoyo said that the incident was a sad one.
They lamented the rate at which insecurity was rising in the community and called on relevant agencies to come to their aid.
The Vice Chairman of Goshen Community in Ajebandele Area as well, Mr. Michael Agunbiade said that activities of Fulani herdsmen had constituted security threat in the area.
He appealed to the security agencies in the state to help them rid the area from activities of the men of the underworld which he said had gone out of their control.
New CP assumes office, promises to review security architecture
Meanwhile, the new Commissioner of Police deployed to the Ekiti State Command, Adeniran Akinwale, said on Wednesday that the police would stop at nothing in the recovery of illegal arms in the state.
Akinwale, who assured that he was in Ekiti to restore the peace that the state was known for, said that the security architecture in the state would be reviewed where necessary so that the police would achieve the desired result of protection of lives and property.
The new CP, who took over from AIG Dare Ogundare, spoke in his maiden press conference in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, to announce his resumption of duties, adding, “Anybody with illegal arms in the state should submit them or face the wrath of the law.”
He said that security was everybody’s business, hence the need for every hand to be on the deck, assuring that all enemies of progress must be defeated in the state.
Akinwale said that the command would restore sanity, working with other commissioners around the state, promising that community-based policing would be adopted and community protection guard would be reinvigorated to curb crime and criminality in the state.
The CP said that the police would focus attention on the area noted for security breaches in the northern Senatorial District to restore sanity to the area, adding, “We will not leave any space ungoverned in the state.”
He also assured that the police would search for and recover the dead body of the driver of the school bus that conveyed the school children and teachers that were kidnapped by gunmen along the Emure Ekiti – Eporo Ekiti Road last Monday.
Akinwale said, “We will recover the body, we will do the post-mortem, it is an investigation material. It is part of what we will use in the investigation and prosecution of the suspects when arrested.”
