VP Osinbajo with Pa Fasoranti during his condolence visit to the bereaved Afenifere leader in his Akure home on Sunday
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo,on Sunday paid an official visit to the Akure home of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Afenifere leaders to commiserate with him over the death of his daughter, Mrs Funke Olakunrin, who was killed by suspected herdsmen in Ore on the Benin-Lagos expressway on Friday, stating that the Federal Government would deploy heavy security on the highway as a temporary measure in the security architecture the government is putting in place.
According to him: “Security in a big country like Nigeria, as you can imagine the challenge, is dynamic and we also have to be consistently dynamic to ensure that we are able to beat the challenges as they appear.” Osinbajo who spoke to journalists afterwards said President Buhari had held several meetings with the security chiefs in his bid to concretise government’s security architecture for the protection of life and property in the country.
“One of the most important things in this sort of crime, because they are largely economic crimes, is that people try to make money by kidnapping,” he said, adding,
‘‘Another important thing is intelligence gathering; that is why we have the community policing system where policemen would be trained in their own local governments and they would remain there.
“This is as close as we get to the community policing structure that we expect to have while we are engaging the Army so that there will be a bit of more military presence especially along the roads.’’
“This is to fasten the search for these killers and also to ensure that there is adequate police presence to deter this kind of terrible situation from re-occurring.’’
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser to the President on Political matters and Chief Bisi Akande, former Osun Governor and APC chieftain, accompanied Osinbajo on the visit.
