State government has unfolded plans to build a modern and well-equipped police station at Iwaraja, a border town between Ekiti and Osun states to make the axis safe for commuters.
The state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi who revealed the plan to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, Monday said the measure would curtail the rising wave of trans-border crimes like kidnappings and killings being perpetrated between Efon Alaaye Ekiti and Iwaraja of recent.
Following the killings of some residents by suspected herders at Iyemero early this year, Fayemi had ordered immediate construction of a police post at Ekiti -Kwara border to patrol that seemingly porous section of the state.
Many commuters had been kidnapped while some were even killed as a result of the persistent nefarious activities of suspected gunmen along Aramoko-Erio-Efon-Iwaraja axis, thereby making the portion dreadful to transporters.
Fayemi, who appeared on the monthly programme; Meet Your Governor, being aired by Ekiti based media outfits, said the Ekiti State Security Trust had been signed into law and this, he said, would help in fortifying the security architecture of the state when it commences operation.
The governor restated that the federal police structure in operation is grossly inadequate to secure the country, harping on the need to create State Police, which understands the terrain and that will facilities better security cover for the 170 million Nigerian citizens.
Fayemi said he has been midwifing series of meetings across the country and southeast in particular as the Chairman of the Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum on the need to have a joint security network that will stamp out evil doers from the zone.
“In Ekiti, we are going to build a modern police station between Efon and Iwaraja to patrol the section where we had had reported cases of kidnappings and other crimes,” he said
