Effective Security, Key To Delivery Of Industrialised, Prosperous Osun – Oyetola
By Yusuf Oketola
Governor of the State of Osun, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola has said that effective security is the answer to his administration’s desire to deliver an industrialized Osun, achieve prosperity and good life for the people of the State.
According to Oyetola, his administration has prioritised security as part of efforts to reposition the state and build a virile economy.
The state Governor stated this on Tuesday while inaugurating the Osun Community Policing Advisory Committee to strengthen security at local areas within the state.
Oyetola stated that the birth of community policing would orchestrate an improved security operations in the state.
He said the initiative by the Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed was a ‘creative and proactive solution to the pervasive security challenges in the country’.
The Governor noted that the initiative was to make the people own policing at the community level, participate in its operations and partner with the conventional police to achieve effective and efficient security and safety architecture.
Oyetola also commended the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for giving the right leadership and enabling environment that birthed the initiative of community policing in the country which ultimate purpose is to further deliver effective policing to a nation under the siege of diverse shades of insecurity.
Earlier, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 11, Osogbo, Mr. David Folawiyo, said the community police would further help to strengthen security, particularly at the grassroots as efforts of the police would be brought to the locals.
Folawiyo, who applauded Oyetola for taking security matter to the front burner since the inception of his administration, promised the police’s absolute support to ensure the success of the initiative.
He said the community policing in the state is a welcome development, saying that it became a necessity particularly at a time the nation is battling with pockets of insecurity challenges.
In his address, the Speaker, State of Osun House of Assembly, Hon. Timothy Owoeye, said the establishment of community policing would go a long way to bridge the gap and fill the vacuum in the security sector in the state.
According to Owoeye, the initiative remains one of the ways to strengthen security and guarantee the safety of lives and property of the citizens at local levels, saying that it would also help to complement government’s efforts towards the maintenance of laws and order in the state.
Owoeye said the House would continue to support the government’s efforts through the legislative processes at ensuring a safe, peaceful, secure and sane society.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, who was also present at the inauguration, extolled the state government for being alive to its constitutional responsibility of guaranteeing the security of lives and property of the citizenry.
Oba Ogunwusi called for a collective effort in tackling the myriads of security challenges confronting the nation at large and the state in particular.
