The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Benin-city branch on Thursday warned those still holding the Executive Director of Ogba Zoo and Natures
Park, Benin-city, Edo State, and Benin ace musician, Ambassador Osayomore
Joseph, to release them immediately or it will withdraw its services to kidnap
and armed robbery suspects in the state.
The lawyers in a communique signed by their Chairman,
Ede Asenoguan, and Secretary, Osazuwa Omonuwa, and made available to
journalists in Benin-city, condemned the spate of insecurity in state.
The NBA also disclosed plans to convene a security
summit where all relevant stakeholders would converge to brainstorm and fashion
out the way forward.
Reviewing the security situation in the state, the
body urged the state police command to "sharpen its strategies with a view
to adequately confronting the security challenge being foisted on the state by
clandestine activities of these hoodlums. Those responsible for the kidnap and
continued captive of Ehanire and Osayomore should release them immediately and
unconditionally."
According to the communique, "The Bar shall be
forced to resume the withdrawal of its services to kidnap and armed robbery
suspects in the state if the situation does not improve. That concerted efforts
of all other security agencies in the state should work in tandem with the state
police command to confront these twin evil of kidnapping and armed robbery
currently ravaging the peace of the state.
"All residents of the state should be
sensitive and ready to assist all the security agencies with relevant
information in order to flush out the activities of these criminal-minded
persons in our midst."
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