The Governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, has urged all criminally inclined persons to leave the state immediately and assured them that their lives and property will be appropriately secured both during and after the holiday season.
The governor issued the warning on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, the state’s capital, at the beginning of the “Ember Month Patrol.”
The army, immigration, NSCDC, FRSC, Amotekun Corps, NDLEA, and police are among the organizations that participate in the inter agency security patrol.
The governor claimed that the exercise was intended to make sure that the entire state is secure and free of criminal elements. He was represented by his security adviser, Brig-Gen. Ebenezar Ogundana.
Ogundana said: “Government would not fold its arms and allow miscreants to be operating in Ekiti. We have to bring out the security agencies to go round the town, look for, identify criminal hideouts and flush them out of the state.
“They will also move to every local government, highways and make sure that the state is free and to identify forests where criminals are assembling are free for people to go about their normal business during this yuletide period.
“Government has already taken measures to deploy enough security in all parts of the state. Government is up to the task and ready to curb criminal activities during this festive period in all parts of the state. We need the support of everybody, because security is the responsibility of everybody.
“When you see something, you say something, don’t see something and decide to keep quiet”