Kwara Police Meet Fulani Leaders, Vigilantes on Anti-Kidnapping War

Kwara Police Meet Fulani Leaders, Vigilantes on Anti-Kidnapping War

The Kwara State Commissioner of Police CP Paul Odama psc (+) met with vigilante and Ardos of the Fulani stock today at the Kwara State Police Command’s officer’s Mess, GRA Ilorin, to discuss ways by which the incidences of Kidnapping and abductions at the fringes and fastly developing areas of the state and around Ilorin metropolitan area could be tackled headlong.

The meeting was convened to seek the Ardos and Serikis input into the Command’s security strategies which was aimed at putting a final stop to the criminal activities in the forests within Kwara state.

Kwarans may recall that the Commissioner of Police in his maiden address to the people of Kwara stated his readiness to partner with all relevant stakeholders, including state and non-state actors, deploying both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches to ensure that the lives and property of citizens and residents of Kwara state were protected.

Cp Paul Odama, while addressing the stakeholders and assured them of his readiness to protect them and ensure that their collaborative effort in the onerous task of ridding the state especially our forests of kidnappers and criminal elements would be well appreciated. He emphasized that the activities of these kidnappers would be permanently checked the moment the fight was taken to the criminals in their hides out by the police in collaboration with the vigilante.

The CP also disclosed that a specially trained and equipped Anti-Kidnapping teams are already in place to work with the vigilante in confronting the monsters named kidnappers and abductors.

CP Paul Odama also stated that similar interaction between the command and the larger vigilante and hunters in Kwara State would soon be convened, where the Fulani vigilante and the already established vigilante in the state would be jointly addressed on the need to harmonize our efforts and work together to achieve the desired common purpose.

While responding, the chairman Baruteen Ardo Alhaji Hassan who led the Fulani from Baruteen axis assured the CP of the readiness of the Fulani vigilante to work with the police but requested that enough protection be avail his people and diligent prosecution of any arrested suspect be assured, as he arbhores a situation where a suspect arrested and handed over to the police and within two or three days after, the same arrested suspect is back in the village walking confidently and posing a threat to the people should be avoided.
Alhaji Ahmed, the chairman of Gan Allah, another Fulani association, pledged the support of his group to the arrangement, stating that the success of the efforts would permanently erase the stigma placed on Fulani people as the ones committing crimes in the forest. The S A to the governor on community policing appreciated the CP for convening the meeting and advised the police to police the state with higher commitment.

The Kwara State CP thanked the guests and promised that all their fears and concerns regarding safety and encouragement would be discreetly looked into.

The CP, used the occasion to assure the generality of Kwara state citizens of their safety and protection, while stating that in his bid to assuage the fears of the people of Algbado, Gaa Saka and Gaa Osibi areas, he has added another three patrol vehicles to the ones already deployed to the area for a 24 hourly patrols of the axis.
He advised the people of those vulnerable areas to cooperate with one another and the police to quickly put an end to all security issues in the area.

E-SIGNED
SP Okasanmi Ajayi (anipr)
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
KWARA STATE POLICE COMMAND
FOR: COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, KWARA STATE.