The Osun State House of Assembly has asked the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Femi Oyeleye, to beef up security to curb the increasing rate of cultism in secondary schools and higher institutions across the state.
While receiving the police boss, the lawmakers tasked other security agencies to join the police in taking drastic security steps against the act of cultism.
The Speaker of the house, Najeem Salaam, tasked the police authorities to deploy its surveillance mechanism to ensure that the act was curbed in schools and in the society at large.
According to a statement by the Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the speaker said, the level at which secondary and tertiary institution students in the state engaged in cultism in recent time had become worrisome.
According to him, though, the state has enjoyed peace over the years due to the proactive stance of the state government in collaboration with security operatives, further steps must be taken to sustain the tempo.
The speaker observed that the economic crunch in the country had been triggering some minor act of the criminality in the state, stressing that such acts must not be allowed to have roots.
“The police authority must do everything possible to ensure that they arrest this act of criminality and ensure that the state remains peaceful,” the speaker said.
In his reaction, the CP assured that necessary actions would be carried out, saying that police operatives would do thorough findings about the hide out of cultists in the state and descend on them.
He added that Osun had always been known to be peaceful and any act of criminality would not be allowed.
According to him, “People of Osun have been keeping crime low in the state, because the people are the police and the police are the people. Without the support of the people, we cannot have the record we are having now.
“On the cases of area boys, stealing and minor cases of criminality we witness in the state now, we are on top of the situation and we will ensure that we keep the peace in the state.
“What we are doing now is intelligence-based policing and I want to urge the people to do more, so that we will be assisted in doing our job as effective as possible.”
Oyeleye also assured that in the discharge of their duties, the state police command would ensure that the right of the citizens were respected and rules of law strictly followed.
