Ademola Adeyinka, the Senior Special Assistant to the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Strategy and Innovation, has said that contrary to the information in the public domain that his principal rejected Governor ‘Seyi Makinde’s offer to install CCTV at the Abolongo Medium Correctional Centre in Oyo after the attack on the facility recently, nothing of such happened.
Recall that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola had been quoted to have said that Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo state does not have the power to order an installation of CCTV Camera within the premises of the Correctional Centre in Oyo, during his visit to the facility after the jail attack.
While fielding questions from Aanuoluwapo Omorinde on Impact Point, a weekly current affairs programme on IBR 92.5fm Ibadan, the minister’s aide said the report is the handiwork of the federal government’s traducers.
“Nothing of such happened. Ogbeni never said anything like that. I think the media aide to the minister was only quoted out of context. These things are the making of the traducers of the government”, he said.
Reacting to an inquiry from a caller on the programme, Adeyinka said popular Fulani Warlord, Iskilu Wakili is in safe custody adding that he was never at anytime kept at Abolongo Correctional facility in Oyo.
In his words, “I think what the people needs to know is that Wakili is in safe custody. He was never in Abolongo before the attack because the nature of his crime never warranted that he should be kept there”.
Speaking on what is being done to forestall a repeat, he said all correctional facilities across the country are now being treated as critical national asset.
“What the federal government through the Ministry of Interior has done, is to classify these facilities as critical assets of national importance. I can tell you that anyone who attacks any of the correctional centres in the country now is on a suicide mission, as they are now well fortified”, he added.