NEW YEAR CELEBRATION: OGUN POLICE BANS STREET CARNIVALS

‘The Command wishes to inform the general public that it has placed embargo on any form of street carnival or public procession across the state. The ban becomes necessary due to series of violence and wanton destruction of valuable properties associated with such carnivals in recent time’.

 ‘In view of this, the Commissioner of Police and his management team while reviewing the security situation in the state came to conclusion that the street carnivals have become an avenue through which some unscrupulous elements as well as cultists are using to unleash terror on innocent members of the public’.

The Command said, as an organisation saddled with constitutional responsibility of protecting life and properties, it cannot fold its arms while hoodlums will be making life difficult for law abiding citizens of the state.

‘Therefore, all forms of street carnival are hereby banned and anybody who after this release organised carnival, rally, procession or blocked any public road anywhere in the state will be made to face the full wrath of the law’, the police warned.