Kidnapping: ASUU Demands Overhaul of Ekiti Security Agencies

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for a total overhaul of the police and other security agencies in Ekiti State over their failure to tackle kidnapping and other crimes in the state.

The Nation gathered that panic has gripped health workers in the state following a reported threat from suspected leaders of a kidnapping syndicate that seven more medical professionals would be abducted.


Addressing a briefing in Ado Ekiti on the abduction of an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Dr. Olufemi Omisore, in Ido Ekiti, last Friday,            
ASUU Akure and Ibadan Zones also called for the removal of the heads of police and Department of State Services (DSS) in the state.
                  The union urged security agencies to deploy appropriate technology such as tracking device and the removal of power of negotiation from the public before the menace of kidnapping can be curbed.
ASUU also called on Governor Ayo Fayose to declare a state of emergency on insecurity in the state, saying “any further delay may spell doom for the state.”
The Chairman of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, branch of ASUU, Dr. Bola Oniya, said the security agencies saddled with the protection of lives and property have failed in the discharge of the statutory responsibilities in the last two weeks.