Oke-Ilagbe residents want Ogun govt assistance on security

Residents of Oke-Ilagbe Area inAbeokuta South Local Area have called on the state government to come to their aid as they make efforts to tackle issues of security challenges in the community.The chairman of the area, Mr Ade Afolabi, who spoke on behalf of other residents during the erection of security gates at the various entrances of the community, said that the issue was not to be taken with levity.He regretted that the community had been under serious security threats since the link roads to the community were fixed, adding that more than 20 houses had been attacked by armed robbers in recent times.Afolabi, who said that the awareness level of all the landlords in the area was very high, thereafter, appealed to the state government to assist the community by giving a reasonable subvention to tackle issues of security challenges.Also speaking, another resident, Timothy Ade Ajayi, said that the roads that was supposed to be a blessing was turning out to be a curse to them as robbers now make use of them to attack them.``I can't remember when last robbers visited us before the roads were fixed, but we are fully prepared for them now with the erection of these security gates and the formation of vigilance groups in our community,' he said.While making passionate appeal to the state government not to abandon the residents of the area, he solicited for urgent interventions in way of subventions to the community.He also appealed to the state government to provide electric poles to the area as he said that they (residents) had been doing it on their own.According to him, ``we don't have concrete electric poles in this area and that is why we are molding it ourselves here through a contractor, we have asked him to mold 50 but we only have money for 25, we want to beg the government to help us in this regard.
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