Epe Ogunmodede Club President Urges Residents To Work With Security Agents

By Babatunde Kaka

Epe Ogunmodede Club President has urged residents to work together with security agents to make the community a safer place.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the President of Epe Ogunmodede Club, Barrister Omodele Ibrahim has urged members of the community to collaborate with security agencies to make Epe safer.

Alakoso of Epe Kingdom, Barrister Omodele Ibrahim, President Epe Ogunmodede Club

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Barrister Omodele made this call in an interview with EKO HOT BLOG during the commissioning of three Traffic Booths donated to traffic officers by the Epe Ogunmodede Club in Epe.

He said the officers of the neighbourhood watch must focus on their statutory duties in the community, stressing that the complementary efforts of the officers in gathering intelligence for security agencies must be strictly adhered to rather than being drafted to control traffic.

“I think we are misplacing our priorities a bit, my understanding of the neighbourhood watch was that they were set up to gather local intelligence, but what you see today is that the same officers are also joining other road traffic regulators as if that is now the focus.

“You can see that there is a shift of focus, they should be embedded in our community to determine strangers in our community, gather local intelligence and feed that information to the appropriate enforcement agencies. If we can go back to that and focus on it, we will have a safer Epe community,” he said.

Speaking further, Barrister Omodele hinted that the next line of action of the club is to organise an interactive session with youths in the community.

He said this was important to give the young people a sense of belonging and as well map out strategies to combat the menace of social vices and other criminal acts prevalent in the community.

“For us at Epe Ogunmodede Club, we cherish the youth populace irrespective of their predicament. It is no news that a larger percentage of them are frustrated and fed up with their living conditions. The leadership of the club is poised to establish a meaningful window of opportunity for them to have a sense of belonging and after then, we can begin to encourage them to channel their mindset toward positive ways. I firmly believe that steps of this nature can have positive impacts on their lives,” he said.

While Barrister Omodele noted that the situation of the country was worrisome enough to derail the path of every right-thinking youth, he also stressed that their predicaments were not enough to get into crime and several other social vices.

“If we must rescue the future, we have to begin to embark on the herculean task of meaningfully engaging our youths. The family values, cultural norms and personal virtues which were the hallmarks of every home and neighbourhood in the days of old have been eroded and that’s why we’ve found the children of our beloved kinsmen in these kinds of mess.

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“We must, as a matter of urgency, begin to collectively rise to rescue our youths from the clipping jaws of social vices because those coming behind are indirectly emulating acts such as substance abuse, prostitution, wire fraud etcetera and these would have negative multiplier effects on the larger community,” he said.

He, therefore, hinted that it would be impressed upon the youths to strive to revitalise the virtues of education and vocational training. These, he said, would take them off the streets and cement for them a prosperous future rather than being consumed with the life of crime.

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