By Funmi Adekoya, Adenitan Akinola
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has summoned an emergency meeting of the state security council to review ongoing operations designed to checkmate criminal activities in the state.
Ahead of the meeting slated for this week, the Governor ordered regular patrols by combined team of security personnel to stem recent upsurge in robberies and kidnappings and reinforce the successes currently being recorded by the security agencies.
A statement by the Governor’s Spokesperson, Mallam Rasheed Olawale, Governor Adeleke who commended the security agencies for recent successes, said they must review current operations and launch statewide patrols to stop the activities of men of the underworld.
The Governor charged the police, the DSS, the Civil Defence, the Amotekun Corps and other agencies to intensify joint operations to prevent criminal infiltrators into Osun state and fish out their sponsors.
He said the forthcoming security meeting will review the nature of the new upsurge and map out detailed plan to arrest the situation.
Governor Adeleke who commiserated with the victims of recent attack and their families reassured the state of his administration’s committment to ensure security of lives and properties, stressing that since two weeks ago, top officials have been detailed to interface with security agencies on anti-crime operations.
He, however, appealed to residents of Osun State to be security conscious and report unusual movements and development in their areas to security operatives.
In a related development, Osun State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a couple by unknown gunmen in Osogbo, Osun State capital.
The victims whose names could not be ascertained were abducted along Osogbo/Iragbiji road while traveling on a motorcycle along the road.
The incident occured in the early hours of Saturday.
A resident of Kelebe, a community located along Osogbo/Iragbiji Road, simply identified as Sanya, told Radio Nigeria that the couple were abducted around 4am on Saturday by gunmen, who took them to an undisclosed location in the forest.
Sanya said the couple were believed to be returning from a vigil when they were abducted.
He said the perpetrators of the crime blocked the road with a log of wood, while the motorcycle that carried the victims suddenly ran into the barricade because it was still dark.
According to him, local hunters and police operatives from the state command were seen combing the forest along Osogbo/Iragbiji road to rescue the victims on Sunday, adding that the couple were still with their abductors as of Monday evening.
The spokesperson of Osun State Police Command, Mrs Yemisi Opalola confirmed the abduction to newsmen, saying police have commenced a search and rescue operation to free the victims.
“It was reported and we are working very hard to rescue the couple. Operatives are combing the bush in the area and we want to assure the public that the victims will be rescued and the perpetrators of the crime will not escape justice,” she said.
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