By Dayo Adu

Government should strengthen community policing to ensure prompt response to distress and emergence call from citizens under threat.

The General Overseer, Men of Issachar Vision Incorporated, Ibadan, Reverend Samson Ajetomobi, made the call at the funeral service of the slain University of Ibadan professor of Forest Economics and Urban Forestry, Issac Ọpẹyemi Ajewole.

The cleric, who noted that late Professor Ajewole was killed by his assailants within his community, commended the police for ongoing efforts to fish out the killers to ensure justice to the family.

Reverend  Ajetomobi said the state of insecurity required intentional strengthening of the Nigeria Police as this would enable the Force to pursue the goal of vibrant community policing across the country.

The Men of Issachar Vision General Overseer observed that the few decisions so far taken by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration had given a hope to Nigerians and ensure a sense of hope.

A closed friend of the deceased, Professor Olukayode Ogunsanwo, who recounted his last moment with the late Professor Ajewole on the evening he was killed, called on the security agencies to ensure that his friend did not die in vain.

The funeral service was well attended by family, friends, colleagues and associates including the University of Ibadan Community led by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Kayode Adebowale to pay last tributes and bid him farewell.

Professor Ọpẹyemi Isaac Ajewole popularly known as Iroko was killed on June 5 on his way to his residence at Ojoo area by armed men suspected to be hired assassins.

Until his death, the sixty-one year old late Professor Ajewole was a lecturer in the Department Forest Economics and Urban Forestry at the University of Ibadan.

He hailed from Igbara-Oke, Ondo State and survived by wife and two children.

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