The Commandant of the Amotekun Corps in Oyo state, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd.), on Tuesday said the security outfit has rid the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway of kidnappers.
He said in the last six weeks that members of the security outfit moved to the road, no kidnap case has been recorded on the road.
He added that the suspected abductors of a former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof Adigun Agbaje, and others had been arrested and their weapons recovered.
Olayanju spoke in an interview with journalists in Offa, Kwara State on the sidelines a colloquium tagged “Emerging trends and insecurity in our communities: Challenges and solutions “organised by Galaxy Clique, Offa. He said, “Both Oyo and Ogun State governments have moved together and had joint security teams. In the last six weeks, we have been on that road. I can tell you that no single incident has happened on the road.
“I can also tell you that the kidnappers of Prof Agbaje and others have been mopped-up. We have been able to arrest all the people involved. The first thing we did was to mop up their weapons -they were about five in number. We did that through the intelligence that the people gave us.
“The police were able to follow up using technology to arrest every member of that group. Since then, there has been no incident of kidnapping along that axis.”
In his presentation at the lecture, a former Director, National Military Strategy, National Defence College, Abuja, Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun (retd.), called on state governors to give adequate support and assistance to security agencies to tackle “worrisome” security challenges.
He said, “If all the security outfits were supported to do what they are supposed to do, we wouldn’t have reached this level. “The military forces owe governors military assistance to constituted authorities and military assistance to civil authorities.
“With this, I wonder why some state governors will feel that they can’t issue directives to the chief command of military or police in emergencies.”