Ogun govt acquires drones to tackle crimes

The Ogun State government has acquired security drones in a bid to check criminal activities in the state.

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, stated this when the state’s new Commissioner of Police, Yomi Oladimeji, paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Abeokuta on Saturday.

Abiodun said the government acquired the drones in a bid to monitor activities along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and other major highways in the state.

He said: “CP Oladimeji, you have your job cut out for you. We have in the past had farmer/herders crises, and we are facing issues of cultism that continued to be on the rise, which we find very strange.

“There are issues of kidnapping here and there but I must thank the men and women of our law enforcement architecture, including the police, DSS, the military, Civil Defence, and other members of our security architecture for the hard work.”

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The governor stressed that the deployment of a water cannon and Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, would help in tackling crimes and criminalities in the state.

He described the new CP as a round peg in a round hole, a legal practitioner with deep knowledge of judiciary and security matters.

The governor added that Oladimeji’s many years of traversing the nation as a police officer had prepared him for the task ahead.

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