Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State is said to have ordered for 30 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) and a hundred Toyota hilux vans to assist the police to combat the rising crime wave in the state especially armed robberies.
According to him; “the 10 APC were the first set of 30 needed by the government to effectively cover the state, saying “we have also approached some neighbouring states to lend us some of their APC to assist in confronting the security challenges we are facing here and they are enthusiastic in doing that.
These things don’t come cheap; a standard APC goes for between N85 million and N100 million and we will soon take delivery of 10 of them; we actually need between 30 and 35 to cover the whole state and ensure that robbers don’t find it easy in the state. We need to tool the APC as well as equip and motivate those that will operate them.”
This is interesting!!! I hope crime would be effectively tackled when they are eventually delivered and operators duly motivated.
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