The Ogun State Government has assured improved security arrangements across the state, in view of the recent closure of banks in the Ijebu-Ode area of the state.
Stating this on Wednesday was the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, at a stakeholders meeting held with senior banking officials, security chiefs and other stakeholders, held at the Olusegun Osoba Press Centre, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
The governor represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Olatokunbo Talabi, noted that the essence of the interactive session was to review the security situation of the concerned areas as related to the peaceful conduct of business and investment activities.
Banks in the Ijebu-Ode axis had for about two weeks shut their doors against customers, due to robbery threats said to have been received by financial institutions.
He called for the immediate commencement of banking activities, in the area.
Abiodun posited that banks remained the heart of commerce in any developing state, hence the government was irrevocably committed to the sustenance of a conducive environment to aid their daily operations.
He added that the reformed security policies of the present administration resulted in the recent deployment of additional Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) to the state, in addition to the resuscitation of OP Mesa to boost the security architecture of the State.
In their separate remarks, the Commander 35 Artillery, Alamala Barracks, Brigadier General Adewale Adekoya, State Director, Department of State Services, Mr David Tulsa and Acting Commissioner of Police, Ogun Command, DCP Abiodun Alamutu stated that their respective commands were committed to improved security to lives and property.
They assured that the existing symbiotic relationship between security formations which has nipped insecurity in the bud across the state was capable of addressing the security threats at all times.
In his remark, the Chairman, Bankers Forum, Mr Olusegun Olusoga lauded the present administration for its sustained interaction, with a call for the improvement on security apparatus in the Ijebu axis of the State.
Also, the Special Adviser Adviser to the Governor on Security, AIG Olusola Subair (rtd), explained that the meeting was convened to examine security issues in the Ijebu axis towards finding a lasting solution to the security threats poised by some criminal elements, reassuring of the sustained conducive environment for business and investment activities.
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