Owo security summit calls for unified action against rising crime
A security summit held in Owo Local Authorities Dwelling of Ondo Order has called for coordinated movement to tackle the rising spate of kidnappings, killings, and violent crimes within the assert.
Convened by the Chairman of the local authorities, Tope Omolayo, the summit took plan at Achievers University, Owo, and introduced collectively authorities officials, faded rulers, security agencies, and community stakeholders to assess the roots of insecurity and point out long-term choices.
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa and his deputy, Olayide Adelami, had been represented by the governor’s Senior Particular Assistant on Security, Olubenga Atiba.
The Olowo of Owo and Chairman of the Ondo Order Council of Obas, Oba Ajibade Gbadegeshin Ogunoye III, changed into among several royal fathers who attended. Representatives from the Military, Police, Civil Defence, Amotekun Corps, and Order Security Carrier had been also contemporary.
A communiqué launched after the summit by the Planning Committee’s spokesperson, Olatunbosun Oladimeji, and its chairman, Gbenga Olumolawa, listed key drivers of insecurity within the assert. These consist of excessive unemployment, Owo’s discipline between two predominant areas—Kabba (North Central) and Benin City (South-South), usual punitive measures in opposition to offenders, inter-company rivalry, social institutional failure, inflow of unprofiled migrants, and unmonitored forests.
To address these components, the summit proposed the institution of a effectively-funded security job drive and improved coordination among security agencies.
It also urged authorities movement on formative years unemployment and in actual fact useful faded authorities in opposition to indiscriminate land sales to undocumented contributors.
Notably, it called for a broader cultural response, bringing up that society must undertake each and every faded and effective approaches to tackle insecurity.
“There must be valid engagement and a multi-faceted diagram to resolving the disaster,” the communiqué read.
The summit coincided with the assert authorities’s announcement of a bill proposing the death penalty for kidnapping.
The Attorney-Usual and Commissioner for Justice, Olukayode Ajulo, acknowledged the proposed legislation goals to discourage violent crime and support public security.
Whereas assert-level factual reforms proceed, the Owo summit highlights the importance of grassroots mobilisation and community-pushed responses in tackling insecurity
