A member representing Ibadan North West/South West of Oyo State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Stanley Olajide, has reiterated that the 10th House was committed to passing the State Police Bill to tackle the ravaging insecurity of the country.
Olajide who is also the Chairman House Committee on ICT, disclosed this at a press briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, while commiserating with Oyo State government and families of victims of the explosion that occurred on Tuesday night in Ibadan.
He words: “Community policing is actually one of the very smartest ways to police your people. Somebody sees something, somebody knows something, they need to speak at the right time.
“Failure to do so will cause situations like this. So, we are going to reopen that because remember, we’ve also been talking about State Police, we’ll be talking about Community Police.
“So, I think you know a situation like this would actually present an urgency to the matter, so that way, we can get the right support that we need to pass whatever legislation that we need to to pass for this.
“So definitely we’re going to pick this up and it’s going to be in the front burner of the activities of the House as soon as we reconvene as a House.”
Olajide commended the prompt intervention of Governor Seyi Makinde and all the first responders.
According to him, We woke up to a very horrific situation in Ibadan which happened around 8pm last night. From information gathered so far coming from the office of the Governor of Oyo State, who I must also commend immensely for his rapid response to the situation.
“The dynamite or explosive detonated, we do understand the loss of lives. I do not want to speculate on the numbers of lives yet, because I don’t have those firm numbers yet. But we do know that there are casualties.