Security

OGHA Calls for Synergy among Security Outfits

By Web News 297

By Omolara Adasofunjo

Ogun State House of Assembly has called for greater collaboration between the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and other local security outfits in the state to ensure an effective security network.

According to the Assembly, this would especially help protect physical infrastructure and secure the lives and properties of the residents.

The Speaker of the House, Mr Oludaisi Elemide who made the call when the new State Commandant of the NSCDC,  Mr Remilekun Ekundayo, paid a courtesy visit to the Assembly Complex said the partnership with others like Amotekun Corps, So Safe Corps, Vigilante Service and Hunters Association would boost security across the State. 

He promised that the legislature was ready to give the needed support to the relevant agencies in the bid to achieve success in securing the entire state, including the farmlands.

In other contributions, the Deputy Speaker, Mrs Bolanle Ajayi, the Minority Leader, Mr Lukman Adeleye, the Deputy Chief Whip, Dr Babatunde Tella and another member, Mr Waliu Owode, advocated the deployment of more personnel of the Corps to the rural areas and applauded the NSCDC for creating the Agro- Ranger Unit to protect farmers and farmlands across the country.

Earlier in her presentation, Commandant Remilekun Ekundayo had emphasized that the Corps was committed to performing the core functions of protecting national critical assets and infrastructure as well as the lives and property of the people. 

The Commandant said the Agro-Ranger unit was created specifically for the protection of farmers and farmlands from hoodlums, bandits and wandering herds, adding that apart from the counter-terrorism and anti-vandals units of the Corps, the NSCDC had also launched the Female Squad to work with the Federal Ministry of Education in schools and protect learners from being kidnapped. 

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Crime

So-Safe Corps Rescue Kidnapped Victim in Ogun

By Web News 601

By Omolara Adasofunjo

The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, codenamed So-Safe Corps, has rescued a 17-year-old boy who was allegedly  kidnapped by yet to be  identified kidnap suspects. 

 ln a statement from the Office of the State Commander of the Corps, Commander, Dr.Soji Ganzallo through the Office of the Director of Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Assistant Commander, Mr Moruf Yusuf.

According to the statement, on 30th of January, 2024, Sunday Iboin came to Olorunda Post of the Corps to report that his son, Otohu Moses, was kidnapped at Olorunsogo Community, Olorunda in Abeokuta North Local Government Area at about 10:15 pm on Monday 29th January, 2024 while he went out to ease himself at the back of the house. 

The statement also noted that when Sunday could not see his son return on time, he called his phone number several times and a man picked it and told him in Yoruba language that his son had been kidnapped already. 

Dr Ganzallo explained that the father also said that the suspected kidnappers were asking for the ransom of One million, five hundred thousand naira.

The State Commander of the Corps revealed that the victim’s father suspected one of his neighbour to have masterminded the kidnapping. 

Dr Ganzallo noted that the operational team of the Corps strategised, swung into action and then took war to the alleged suspected kidnappers in the forest, some kilometres away from the point of kidnapping and the boy was rescued unhurt, though with marks of cane on his body while the three armed kidnappers sighted escaped with one motorcycle. 

The rescued victim has been transferred to the Nigeria Police Force, Imala Divisional Police Headquarters for further investigation.