We Will Cooperate With You To Have A Safer Ekiti, Fayose Tells AIG

By Bola Agboola

Ekiti State Governor, Bashorun Peter Ayodele Fayose has assured the Assistant Inspector General of Police , Zone 8, AIG Tanko Lawal of his maximum cooperation to have a safer Ekiti State. The governor said this during a meeting with the police chief in his office on Thursday. Lawal who is on a familiarisation tour of the zone said he is in Ekiti to discuss the policy direction of the police management with his men, the governor and Ekiti people in general described community police partnership as one of the major goals of the police management. The police chief who said he has met with PCRC members as well as Ewi of Ado Ekiti admonished the governor to participate in mobilising the people to take security issue serious by participating in the security of their community added that there is no better place to advocate such appeal than to come to the governor. Mr. Tanko who said the police on their part has encouraged its men to move nearer to the people urged the people to join hands in fighting the current wave of insecurity in various communities, be it kidnapping, cultism by student as well as other heinous crimes. Thanking the governor for granting his team which included the Ekiti State police commissioner, Etop John James and other top officers audience and constantly assisting the police, Lawal urged Fayose to continue to assist them even as he is a living witness to the governor's kind gesture up to the zonal command in Lokoja. Governor Fayose in his reaction described the IGP Solomon Arase as son of the soil and commended him for standing up for Ekiti during her trying time. The governor who said Ekiti now enjoy peace in all ramifications tasked the police to be alive to its responsibility added that the police must separate crime from politics. Explaining that no reliable and responsible governor will run after his opponents but after delivering dividends of democracy, Fayose assured the team that he'd rather work to prove his enemies wrong and leave Ekiti better than he met it.