EHIME ALEX, Lagos
Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, has called on the state police command to set machineries in motion to get rid of criminal elements, including cultists and land grabbers.
According to a statement to NATIONAL ACCORD on Friday, the Speaker gave the charge while playing host to top management of the Police hierarchy in the State, led by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Edward Ajogun, at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
He said the police has the capacity to implement to the letter the provisions of the Anti-land grabbing law, passed by the state 8th Legislature, stressing the need for the Command to begin immediate arrest and prosecution of criminals, parading themselves as land grabbers.
Speaker Oluomo suggested that the police command could re-introduce amnesty for cultists to renounce their membership and submit their weapons, saying after the period of amnesty, anyone found to be engaged in cultism should thereafter be arrested and prosecuted.
According to him, the members of the 9th Assembly is irrevocably committed to promoting peace and tranquility in all parts of the State, hence, would continue to synergize with the executive arm of government to canvass for more support in terms of equipment and other logistics.
Describing the posting of the new Commissioner of Police as a round peg in round hole, the Speaker enjoined the people of the State to always give necessary information to the force to assist in crime prevention.
In a remark, CP Ajogun stated that he have passionately committed himself towards achieving crime control, prevention of civil disorder, riot control, having improved on the template inherited from his predecessor with a view to improving and sustaining the peace and tranquility being enjoyed in the State.
He explained that the contemporary police must earn public understanding with focus on communities, assuring that his officers and men would continue to conduct themselves with integrity, knowledge, intelligence and ensure fairness with high level of professionalism as public servants.
CP Ajogun commended the State Government and the Assemblymen for the logistic support to the State Police command in the past, requesting for more collaboration for effective security.
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