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Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has expressed concern over recent kidnapping incidents in the Okemesi/Ido-Ile axis in the state.
Oyebanji, who said the ugly trend should be reversed as a matter of urgency, urged the chairmen of the three local governments and development areas in the axis “to collaborate with residents of the area and government at all levels to ensure an end to criminal activities in their area”.
The governor, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Yinka Oyebode, spoke at his Ikogosi-Ekiti country home while receiving the chairmen and leadership of Ekiti West Local Government and Ekameta and Okemesi-Ido Ile Local Council Development Areas.
He said, “Let me appeal to us on security because I heard that kidnappers are resurfacing in some areas. We must sit down as a community and as a government to ensure that we don’t allow it to happen because where there is no security, people will run away from such places.
“I will sit down with the chairmen of the local governments to find a lasting solution to that place, we must not allow them. My own vision is Ekiti State where everybody will be able to live well and live a worthy life,” the governor said.
Oyebanji tasked the leadership of the local councils to love and accommodate one another, assuring them that his administration was committed to the overall development of the state.
He said his administration had set in motion aggressive rehabilitation of all roads in the area for easy accessibility, adding that efforts were ongoing to ensure effective and efficient electricity supply to the area to boost the economic activities of the people and state.
The Chairman of Ekiti West LG, Olusesan Okere, said the purpose of their visit was to celebrate the Easter festivity with the governor and to tell him that they appreciated what he had been doing since he came to office.
Okere, who said the whole Ekiti West was very proud of the achievements of the governor in less than six months in office, seized the opportunity to ask the governor for an institution that would serve as a catalyst for socio-economic development of the area.
