Kwara CP meets stakeholders to tackle kidnapping

By Adeleye Kunle

The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Paul Odama, has ordered additional three patrol vehicles to the existing ones deployed to Alagbado, Gaa Saka and Gaa Osibi areas of Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state capital following the onslaught by kidnappers in the areas.

He also ordered a 24-hour patrols of the axis to checkmate activities of kidnappers who have reportedly laid siege in the areas in recent times.

Paul Odama disclosed this at a meeting held at the police officers mess, in Ilorin, with stakeholders on strategies to mitigate the spate of kidnappings in the state, the police commissioner.

He advised the people of the vulnerable areas to cooperate with one another and the police to quickly put an end to all security issues in the areas.

Recall that four kidnap incidents were recorded in the areas recently, leading to the abduction of some persons, including two children of the same parent, with the kidnappers demanding N8m ransom for their release.

The meeting, which had in attendance, Ardos and Serkis, was summoned as part of the efforts by the police to tackle incidences of kidnapping and other criminality in Kwara State.

The meeting, discussed among others, ways by which the incidences of Kidnapping and abductions at the fringes and fastly developing areas of the state and around Ilorin metropolitan area could be tackled headlong