EndSARS: Oyo CP Condemns Mass Destruction Of Police Facilities

News Rain Nigeria reports that the  Oyo State Commissioner of Police, CP. Joe Nwachukwu Enwonwu has on Sunday condemned the mass destruction of police facilities and attacks on his personnel by hoodlums in Ibadan.

CP. Nwachukwu Enwonwu through a Press Statement which was issued and signed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Olugbenga Fadeyi, which a copy made available to News Rain Nigeria Correspondent in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, quoted CP. Nwachukwu to have condemned the co-ordinated attacks on police personnel while on their lawful duties and also the mass destruction of police facilities.

Parts of the release stated that the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, CP. Joe Nwachukwu Enwonwu, psc wishes to once again condemn in its entirety the co-ordinated attacks on Police personnel while on their lawful duties, mass destructions, looting of Police facilities, the act of carnage meted to Police personnel, and the opportunity to unleash mayhem on innocent citizens of the State by suspected hoodlums, and some criminal elements who carted away properties worth millions of naira during the “EndSARS Protests” carried out in the State recently.

CP. Nwachukwu through the statement wishes to observe with dismay and utmost dissatisfaction the level of attacks on Police personnel, carting away of arms and ammunition, looting, destructions to government properties by these unscrupulous criminal elements of progress.

According to the press release, which the Commissioner of Police reiterated that this was an act premeditated by the hoodlums who deliberately set the Police Stations ablaze and thereafter stripped them naked by returning to the rumbles to cart away all valuables including computers, Laptops, flat-screen TV, burglary proofs, office equipment, overhead water tanks, cell gates, ceiling tiles, remnants of Police patrol vehicles body parts and engines, iron gates, balcony railings, etc and pulling down of perimeter fencing and that of the entire Police Station buildings.

CP Nwachukwu through the statement seeks collaboration and partnership with the members of the public who might have credible information on these lootings or have seen such properties mentioned above in the custody of these suspected hoodlums to report same immediately to the nearest Police Station or arrest and hand over to any security agencies close by for necessary action.

Nwachukwu however, calls on all critical stakeholders including traditional rulers, Community, or religious leaders, leaders of thought, parents, or guardians to continue to have dialogue and also appeal to the youths and their children, or wards to desist from act that can lead to the breakdown of law and order in the State.

The State Police Boss maintained that the Police in State will not fold its arms and allow criminal elements or social miscreants to continue to shed innocent blood in the name of protest and carry out their evil intentions.

In the press release, the State CP. Nwachukwu also wishes to state that the Oyo State Police will not relent in our resolve to give criminal elements a good fight as the Command is battle-ready to deal decisively with whatever persons or groups who are bent on disturbing the relative peace being enjoyed by the good people of Oyo State.

Nwachukwu however promised maximum securities to lives and property of Oyo State citizens are guaranteed as adequate security measures have been emplaced during this yuletide period and beyond.

CP. Nwachukwu maintained that there are synergy and collaboration among the sister’s security agencies in the State and therefore criminal elements should not attempt to test the collective will as any individual or groups who do so shall have his or herself to blame for such actions.