The governor of Ondo State and Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has condemned the bandits’ attack on President Muhammadu Buhari’s convoy on Tuesday in Katsina State describing it as ‘daring’.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that country’s security situation has continued to worsen at an alarming rate over the last twelve months. According to Akeredolu, the act by the bandits as daring and should not be taken for granted.
The governor made this statement on Wednesday when hosting some of his former classmates from the Loyola College, Ibadan class of 1968–1972 in his office in Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital.
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Akeredolu emphasised that his colleagues’ desire for the State Police is not an attempt at self-aggrandizement but rather a response to the current state of the nation’s security, which he described as having gotten worse rather than better.
‘For me, state police is not for self-aggrandizement. It is a reality of the time. For us in the South and even in the North, I know so many of them that have come to accept that a single command of Police is not good for this country. This country is too big.
‘We will continue to make our voice heard everywhere. We are almost there. We are licking our wounds here over the June 5 attack in Owo. It is a serious wound.’
In terms of the country’s security challenges, he claimed that the threat posed by bandits and ISWAP has eclipsed the one posed by Fulani herdsmen.
Meanwhile, the Presidency has vowed to take serious measures to avoid a repeat of such attack.
