BENIN CITY- The Edo State Governor Mr Godwin Obaseki said a new security architecture would be unveiled in the state on December 1, 2017.
The governor stated this during his tour of police facilities at the state police command headquarters, Benin City, yesterday.
“As we promised, we are working on a new security architecture for Edo State and we have done quite a bit of work on it.
“We are at a point where we are almost ready to launch a security architecture. We expect that by December 1, it would be unveiled.” The governor stated.
Mr Obaseki further explained that the tour to the police headquarters was among others to see the state of their infrastructure and operations with a view to understanding how much support the state government needed to give the police for efficient service delivery.
The Commissioner of Police, Edo State CP Johnson Kokumo accompanied by other senior officers at the state command headquarters in Benin received the governor, his deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu, Chief of Staff Taiwo Akerele, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Hon. Yinka Omorogbe and others principal officers that made the governor’s entourage.
Meanwhile, 56 suspected criminals were yesterday paraded by police in Edo.
The commissioner of police CP Johnson Kokumo who paraded the suspects before journalists said they were arrested for different crimes ranging from armed robbery, rape, cultism, murder, burglary to kidnapping.
Arms, ammunition, dangerous weapons, mobile phones and cash were also displayed as exhibits recovered from the suspects.
CP Kokumo warned unrepentant criminals and their allies to relocate from Edo or be prepared to face the full wrath of the law.
He maintained that the police command had been repositioned to curtail all forms of crimes and criminalities.
“Edo State is not a haven for criminals, criminals who are residents in Edo State should relocate and those who are planning to have incursion from neighbouring states should also have a rethink.
“We are going to fight the criminals on the land, we will fight the criminals on the water, from the air, because we have discovered that some of these criminals haven committed the crimes, they escape through the waters to the creeks”. CP Kokumo stated.
Amongst the suspects were Happy Okoro, 23, Osazee Oghogho, 26 and Best Oko-Monday, 23 who admitted to have killed Prof Paul Otasowie of the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Benin, UNIBEN in front of his residence at 5, Alaghodaro Street, Off Siluko Road, Benin City about 9pm, Wednesday, October 4, 2017.
One of the suspects Happy Okoro said he mistakenly shot Prof Paul Otasowie while they were trying to snatch his car from him for a robbery operation.
The trio however confessed to be members of Eiye Confracternity.
