Ekiti Highlights Kogi, Kwara Boundaries As Security Flashpoints

Boundaries linking Ekiti State with Kogi and Kwara states have been identified as major flashpoints posing security threats to communities in the state.

Findings by Punch showed that victims of kidnapping incidents in Ekiti are often released or rescued in neighbouring Kwara and Kogi states.

Naija News understands this has heightened suspicion that criminals enter Ekiti through border communities and retreat to neighbouring states after carrying out attacks.

Communities said to share boundaries and expansive forests with neighbouring states include the Irele/Oke-Ako axis with Kogi State and the Erinmope-Moba axis with Kogi.

Others are the Eda Oniyo/Ilejemeje axis with Kwara State, the Ise axis with Ondo State and the Ikere axis with Ondo State.

Govt Adopts Emergency Security Approach

The Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said the state government had adopted several measures to push back bandits.

He said Governor Biodun Oyebanji had taken an emergency approach to security issues to protect lives and property.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security Matters, Brig. Gen. Ebenezer Ogundana (retd.), said efforts were ongoing to secure schools and churches across the state.

He said the government had continued bush-combing operations to keep forests and border communities safe from bandits and kidnappers.

According to him, the operations are being carried out by a joint team of conventional and non-conventional security agencies.

They include personnel of the Nigerian Army, Department of State Services, police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Amotekun Corps, Ekiti State Agro Marshal Corps, vigilante groups and local hunters.