The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has recognised the key roles which the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has been playing in collaboration with the police to significantly reduce the state of insecurity and crime rate in South West of the country.
The IGP, who spoke through a delegation sent to the Aare Ona Kankanfo of Yorubaland and Leader of the OPC, Gani Adams, in Lagos on today, August 22, said that he would sustain the synergy and partnership to further reduce crime rate and ensure peace in the region.
This was even as the Aare Ona Kankanfo commended the initiative of Mohammed Adamu to partner with his organisation to fight crime, pledging that the OPC will not betray the trust.
Gani Adams said that the most important part of security is intelligence gathering, recalling how the police in Lagos were able to end the menace of the dreaded Badoo cultists involved in several killings in the state by forming a partnership with the OPC.
He made it clear that the OPC was not set up as a crime-fighting organisation but that the circumstances that led to its involvement in security matters was when the landlords associations on Lagos Mainland sought its assistance to stem the tide of rising crimes.
He recalled the confrontations between the OPC and the police between 2000 and 2004, and expressed joy that today the IGP has found the organisation worthy of his collaboration in crime fighting.
Commending Mohammed Adamu for believing in community policing and taking pro-active steps, Gani Adams said that the OPC would work with the newly established Police Special Squad deployed to the South West to fight kidnapping and armed banditry, as his men who know the territory well are ready, willing and able to confront criminals in the region.
The Leader of the IGP’s delegation, Jude Nwankor, assured the Aare Ona Kankanfo that the mistake of the past would not be allowed to repeat itself.
Members of the delegation included the Officer-in-Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos State, Chief Superintendent of Police Peter Gana and the Commander, Seme Border Patrol, CSP Ogechi Moses Udu.
Also at the parley on the side of Gani Adams were the former Special Adviser, Political, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Basorun Akin Osuntokun; OPC’s Director of Mobilisation, Comrade Dauda Asikolaye; Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo; Osi Aare Ona Kakanfo, Gani Kola Balogun; Segun Sani; and key members of the OPC.
Gani Adams said that the most important part of security is intelligence gathering, recalling how the police in Lagos were able to end the menace of the dreaded Badoo cultists involved in several killings in the state by forming a partnership with the OPC.
He made it clear that the OPC was not set up as a crime-fighting organisation but that the circumstances that led to its involvement in security matters was when the landlords associations on Lagos Mainland sought its assistance to stem the tide of rising crimes.
He recalled the confrontations between the OPC and the police between 2000 and 2004, and expressed joy that today the IGP has found the organisation worthy of his collaboration in crime fighting.
Commending Mohammed Adamu for believing in community policing and taking pro-active steps, Gani Adams said that the OPC would work with the newly established Police Special Squad deployed to the South West to fight kidnapping and armed banditry, as his men who know the territory well are ready, willing and able to confront criminals in the region.
The Leader of the IGP’s delegation, Jude Nwankor, assured the Aare Ona Kankanfo that the mistake of the past would not be allowed to repeat itself.
Members of the delegation included the Officer-in-Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos State, Chief Superintendent of Police Peter Gana and the Commander, Seme Border Patrol, CSP Ogechi Moses Udu.
Also at the parley on the side of Gani Adams were the former Special Adviser, Political, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Basorun Akin Osuntokun; OPC’s Director of Mobilisation, Comrade Dauda Asikolaye; Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo; Osi Aare Ona Kakanfo, Gani Kola Balogun; Segun Sani; and key members of the OPC.
