Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has called on the Joint Task Force on Anti-Smuggling, comprising of men of the Nigeria Army and the Nigeria Customs to be more civil in the discharge of their duties in the State.
Abiodun who made this known at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta when he received the General Officer Commanding 81 Division of the Nigeria Army, said that his administration had to come in several times to manage the crisis caused by the death of some people of the state as a result of stray bullets from the joint patrol on smuggling.
“Your men are involved with the men of the Nigeria Customs in joint patrol taskforce that prevents smuggling across our border areas, but, what we’ve seen lately is that in the process of trying to contain smuggling, there have been incidences where shots are fired and innocent civilians lose their lives.
“Lately, we’ve had cases of harmless Ogun State indigenes being killed due to the fact guys of the Nigeria Custom and this undertaking force are seeking to lessen smuggling. I realize our humans are touchy to this kind of factors in which school children are coming from or going to highschool, they get hit by stray bullets, commuters on motorcycles and traders in their shop getting hit with the aid of stray bullets, time and time again, this has happened and we've had to come in to control those conditions.
“I will like you to assist us look into how we may be greater civil in handling this difficulty of smugglers and stray bullets killing our citizens,” he stated.
The Governor even as urging the joint undertaking force on Anti-Smuggling to be careful while on obligation, said that his management would maintain to support the guys of the Nigeria Army.
Abiodun who additionally liked guys of the Nigeria Army and different law enforcement organizations for status tall inside the wake of the farmers and herdsmen crisis, said his management will keep to create the permitting surroundings needed by the security architecture in the nation to make the state a secure haven for the people.
Earlier in his reaction, the General Officer Commanding 81 Division, Major General Lawrence Fejokwu, at the same time as calling on the Governor to use each channel at his disposal to help the Nigeria Army by way of offering them with statistics, stated that they could paintings tough to lower crime.
“We want you to use each channel to be had to you to retain to decorate our operations, I realize that you have channels of Communication and channels thru which statistics receives to you, I will please request that you use the ones channels to avail us statistics, in order that we nib any hazard in the bud before it turns into larger,” he said.
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