Security agencies launch ‘Operation comb the bush’ in Ekiti

Security agencies successful Ekiti State connected Monday launched “Operation comb the bush” arsenic portion of efforts to heighten information and forestall transgression activities crossed the state.

The cognition which commenced connected Monday progressive men and officers of the military, police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Department of State Services, DSS, and Amotekun Corps, among others.

Addressing the associated patrol squad astatine the Police Headquarters successful Ado Ekiti earlier the commencement of the exercise, the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Mr Falade Adegoroye, said the cognition became indispensable pursuing quality reports indicating intensified information offensives against transgression elements successful neighbouring Kwara, Kogi, Ondo and Osun states, arsenic good arsenic parts of bluish Nigeria.

He noted that the unit connected the transgression groups successful those areas could unit them to question refuge successful the South-West, thereby posing imaginable threats to Ekiti State. This, helium said, necessitated the proactive determination by each information agencies successful the state.

Describing the workout arsenic a proactive measurement to safeguard lives and property, the constabulary commissioner explained that the peculiar cognition would impact coordinated bush combing, clearance of transgression hideouts, visibility policing and raids crossed identified flashpoints, peculiarly successful borderline communities.

Adegoroye maintained that the ...