Traditional rulers in Ekiti State under the aegis of Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers have called on the Federal Government to deploy more security personnel to the state to beef up security in the state.

The traditional rulers who stated that Ekiti State is under-policed also demanded that the state government should empower them with adequate resources to police and secure their respective domains to complement the efforts of the security agencies.

The monarchs also urged the government to take necessary measures to ensure all forests currently occupied by bandits and kidnappers are flushed out immediately.

These were part of the decisions reached by the monarchs in a meeting with Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, at the State Traditional Council Chamber in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.

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Other decisions reached by the monarchs include the need for native security systems to work together to end all manners of criminality in the state.

Their recommendations are to be conveyed to the governor for implementation.

Governor Oyebanji, in his remarks, conveyed the condolence message of President Bola Tinubu to the traditional rulers, who lost two of their colleagues – The Onimojo of Imojo Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olusola, and the Elesun of Esun Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsakin – in Monday attack by gunmen.

The governor told the monarchs that investigations into the killings of their colleagues had begun, urging them to cooperate with the security agencies in the course of the investigations.

He stated that the meeting with the traditional rulers was a way out of the present web of insecurity in the state, adding that the deployment of both formal and native security apparatus would bring out the desired result.

He also told them to come up with an implementable road map for securing their localities, in line with the government’s plan to get the local institutions to play some roles in the safety and security of the environment.

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