Ogun and Oyo State governments have resolved to install Closed-Circuit Television cameras on border highways between the two states to check the activities of criminals.
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun; and his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, disclosed this on Wednesday, in a communiqué, jointly released after a joint security meeting held in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The meeting tagged “Ogun, Oyo Joint Security Meeting” was held to address the spate of insecurity in both states.
The governors, during the meeting, met with security heads from both states and announced the setting up of a “High-Level Joint Security Committee” to tackle criminal activities along the boundary communities and interstate roads between the two states.
Both states have been battling with increasing cases of kidnapping and armed robbery incidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Rising from the meeting, the two states in a seven-point communiqué read by the Oyo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Oyelowo Oyewo, agreed to set up a Joint Border Security Task Force “with membership drawn from various security agencies in the two states, to patrol the border communities to ensure security of lives and property for the residents and commuters”.
They also agreed to share experiences and intelligence on security matter.
This, according to them, would assist the overall safety and security of lives and property in the two states and the nation at large.
The meeting also agreed to implement the following initiatives in the short term, “Threats assessment and analysis along the border corridors, deployment of CCTV in the interstate highways, setting up of outposts along the border communities for the use of the Joint Border Security Task Force, as well as harmonisation and mainstreaming of voluntary police and informal security outfits.”
