SECURITY CHALLENGE : ONDO SET FOR SUMMIT
All is set for the first Ondo state security summit slated for Thursday,17th January ,2019 as over five hundred (500) participants and security experts are expected at the event.
Speaking with Journalists in Akure, the Ondo State capital on the programme, Mr. Jones Ogunmusire, Special Adviser to the Governor on Administration and policy matters, who is also chairman of the event, said the summit has been necessitated by the ravaging security challenges facing the state and the country as a whole.
In his words " The summit has been necessitated by the ravaging security challenges of our time and the need to proactively look at the future security needs in the light of development efforts the government of Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN has embarked upon to attract capital in-fkow to the state".
Noting that, it is imperative to create a conducive environment for investors and their investment in the state, so as to make it secured and conducive.Adding that the geographical location of the state is such that people with criminal tendencies make inroad into the state from neigbourinne states.
The summit , with the themed "Improving security Architecture in Ondo state for sustainable peace and Development " have eight (8) other sub-themes built around this main theme, as security experts have been sourced from across the country to critically examine all security issues pertaining to the summit.
The summit chairman informed that ideas and recommendations that will emerge from the summit will be harvested, proceed and packaged into a draft security policy document that will be submitted to the Governor for the consideration of the state security council as frame work to work upon, as he laments on spate of crimes and violence like kidnapping, armed robbery and assassination of innocent people in the society as a great sin to the creator.
Adding that, arrangements have also been put in place ,as security aides in neighbouring states like Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Kogi ,Lagos and other neighbourhood states have been contacted to be part of the summit and also to collaborate together at stamping-out crimes and other vices in the state.
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