Ogun moves to tighten security, sends four tough crime bills to Assembly

In a bold determination to fortify security, support residents and boost capitalist confidence, the Ogun State Executive Council has approved 4 landmark bills designed to tackle convulsive crimes, ritual killings, cultism, extortion and the increasing situation of missing persons crossed the state.

The approval, granted astatine the Council gathering held connected Thursday, July 30, 2026, underscores the determination of the Prince Dapo Abiodun medication to deploy robust legislative measures to code emerging information threats portion reinforcing Ogun State’s estimation arsenic 1 of Nigeria’s safest and astir charismatic concern destinations.

The projected legislations—the Group Liability for Offences of Violence, Extortion and Secret Societies (GLOVES) Bill, the Victims’ Rights Bill, the Human Sacrifice Prevention and Prohibition Bill, and the Missing Persons Bill—will beryllium transmitted to the Ogun State House of Assembly for information successful the coming days.

Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwasina Ogungbade, SAN, said the bills correspond a broad ineligible effect to crimes that are either prevalent oregon progressively becoming a menace to nationalist information successful the state.

According to him, the GLOVES Bill is aimed astatine dismantling transgression organisations by making each subordinate of an unlawful oregon proscribed radical jointly liable for crimes committed by chap members successful furtherance of the group’s objectives...