Ogun CP launches police/ students forum in Abeokuta
Olorunfemi Ojo
With his plan to have and maintain mutual understanding between the police and students in Ogun State, the Commissioner of Police Ogun State CP Abdulmajid Ali has launched Police /Students Forum at the Police Officers Mess Ibara GRA Abeokuta on Monday.
According to a release by the state police spokesman, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, the Police /Students Forum comprises all students Union Governments of schools in Ogun State represented by their Presidents , General Secretaries and Public Relations Officers and the National Association of Nigerian Students leaders in Ogun State and selected Police Officers including the Commissioner of Police, officer in charge State Intelligence Bureau, SP Amina Yakubu, Police Public Relations Officer DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, officer in charge Anti kidnapping and Cultism Squad, DSP Olumide Jimoh and others.
The release stated that, Commissioner of Police appreciated the students for their understanding and support since his posting as the Commissioner of Police Ogun State and charged them to shun the “We” against “Them” Syndrome that creates fractions between the police and students bodies always.
CP Abdulmajid Ali, the PPRO said was assisted at the laudable launching and get-together by the Deputy Commissioner of Police Department of Finance and Administration DCP Celestine Okoye, DC Operations, DCP Bello Makwashi DCP Shina Olukolu DC Department of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence and other members of the command management team.
While reacting to this new development, the students leaders applauded the Commissioner of Police for the launching of the forum which is the first ever in the history of Ogun State and even in Nigeria.
The students leaders included Comrade Okiki Ogunsola, NANS South West Coordinator, Comrade Okunnowo Ayosile, NANS Director of Students Welfare and Mobilization and Comrade Dotun Opaleye, Joint Campus Committee(JCC) Chairman.
They promised to allow peace to reign in the state and work closely with the police command to fight crimes and Cultism in Ogun State as students bodies have zero tolerance for cultism in Ogun campuses.
The Commissioner of Police Abdulmajid Ali then promised to be having the forum’s meeting once in a month to sustain the friendship between the command and all students communities in the state and fine-tune a way forward on Police/students crises in the state
