Group Carpets Oyetola over Insecurity in Osun, Says He Does Not Deserves 2nd Term

A Non Governmental  Organization, Centre for Social Justice and Public Interest Protection has said that the administration of Mr. Gboyega Oyetola has failed to provide security for the lives and property of the people of Osun State.

According to the group, insecurity has returned to Osun on full scale due to the absence of security infrastructure, saying that Governor Oyetola is lethargic to making provision for the safety of the people in the state. 

The group stated this in a press statement signed by its Coordinator, Akin Akanji, and made available to news men on Sunday . 

"Only an unresponsive, irresponsible government would watch helplessly while some commercial banks have shut down in some parts of the state due to incessant bank robberies, among other insecurity like ritual killings, armed robbery and political violence", said the group. 

The group said Governor Oyetola doesn't deserve a second term because he has failed to provide security for the people of the State. 

It specifically chastised the Oyetola's administration for refusing to maintain all the armoured personnel carriers and other patrol vehicles with which the previous administration of Ogbeni Aregbesola secured the state, thereby allowing them to fall into disuse and ruin.

The group also call on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police to help in the security of lives and property of the people of the state.

Centre for Social Justice and Public Interest further stated that Oyetola has proven himself to be incapable of providing security foe lives and property, which is the number one responsibility of the government and has abandoned governance in pursuit of his second term ambition and vengeance.

The statements read in parts: "We are alarmed and saddened by the unprecedented rise in criminal activities and political violence in Osun State under the government of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. We never had it so bad, not even under the murderous PDP government.

"Armed robbery, bank raid, ritual killing has become everyday affair in Osun. We have all been devastated by the killing of a student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Timothy Adegoke Oludare, in Ile-Ife in the hotel he paid to lodge in.

"This is more than a week after the sad and despicable incident, yet not a word from the state government. No effort to seal the scene of crime, no word of consolation to the family of the victim and no effort to assure the people of the state of the safety of their lives and property.

"The government has shown no interest in a gruesome murder carried out within its territory, just like other crimes that have become a daily occurrence in the state.

"The government of Oyetola is asleep, unconcerned, unresponsive, totally oblivious of the security situation in the state. Totally irresponsible.

"Banks and financial institutions have been under relentless siege of bandits and armed robbers in which policemen, customers and bank staff had been killed like fowls. From Ikirun to Osun boundaries in Kwara and Ekiti States, all banks and financial institutions have shut down. Criminals now reign supreme in the state.

"There are two governments in Osun: the weak, effete, vindictive and supine one headed by Oyetola and the armed robbers, bandits and ritual killers. 

"In Osogbo, thugs being coordinated by a road transport union leader, acting at the behest of the state government, have held the people hostage in the most barbaric fashion.

"Insecurity has returned to Osun on full scale.

The armoured personnel carriers and other patrol vehicles with which the previous administration of Aregbesola secured the state have fallen into disuse and ruin. This is because the state governor does not want to touch anything that can be linked to the Aregbesola administration because of the crisis between them. 

"The absence of any security infrastructure and any interest of the state government in security have emboldened criminals who now write to residents of the state of their coming and eventually carry out their threats with impunity.

"Governor Gboyega Oyetola has therefore proven himself to be incapable of providing security of lives and property, which is the number one responsibility of the government.

"We are calling President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police to save us in Osun and help us on the security of lives and property.

"It is without question now that Oyetola has failed to protect lives and property and does not deserve a second term. He should just complete his term and slither like a worm out of the government and our consciousness.

"Governor Oyetola is clearly distracted by the crisis he started in the APC and he has abandoned governance in pursuit of his second term ambition and vengeance 

"Instead of addressing the insecurity challenge in the state, Governor Oyetola would rather apportion blames to a caucus of his party, even when those people had fallen victims of political attacks from the Oyetola’s camp. We observe that if urgent action is not taken, the opposing camp in the APC in Osun State may be eliminated as they reported and this will result to further break down of law and other in the state. 

"As a stakeholder in the Osun polity and business, we observe also that all the public infrastructure, particularly those bequeathed to his administration by the former governor Aregbesola, which Governor Oyetola should maintain or improve upon are equally left to fall into ruins. This is because Mr Governor is committed to rubbishing Aregbesola’s achievement to score political points. 

"We note with concern that such attitude is anti-people and inimical to development. 

It is our conclusion that a Governor that cannot guarantee the security of lives and property of the people does not deserved to be returned to office, either by his political party or the general public".