Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has tasked traditional rulers and community leaders in the state to collaborate with security agencies to ensure adequate security of lives and properties in their domain.
The governor gave the charge on Friday during a security stakeholders meeting with traditional rulers and heads of all security agencies in the state.
According to the governor, the meeting became necessary in the face of security challenges facing the state, especially from the border towns of the state.
Fayemi, who said the issue of security challenges was not unique to Ekiti alone, disclosed that he was already working with governors of neighbouring states of Ondo, Osun and Kogi to ensure adequate combing of the areas.
According to a statement made available to journalists by the Chief Press secretary to the Governor, Mr Yinka Oyebode, the meeting was geared towards driving the agenda of the state’s security and safety strategy.
The governor charged the traditional rulers to monitor and interrogate any new face they found in their domain and possibly report them immediately to security operatives in their areas.
Fayemi, while assuring that his administration would not relent in its efforts of providing adequate protection of lives and properties to the people said he had beefed up security on the Efon-Alaaye axis of the state by increasing the number of soldiers manning the area hoping that same would soon be done in the other borders with other states.
He warned individuals shielding criminals to desist from the act forthwith or face the full wrath of the law adding that it was imperative for both individuals and traditional council to cooperate with security operatives by supplying timely and useful information about criminals hiding in their communities.
Fayemi assured the traditional rulers that his administration would collaborate with the local communities to ensure adequate security adding that issue of security was not for government alone.
