Robbery check: Ogun state police command warns vigilante against sporadic shooting

The Ogun State Police Command has issued a warning notice to vigilante and local security operatives over incessant firing gun shot in attempt to scare criminals within their communities in the State.

Penpushing reports that, the Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi made this known in a statement, explaining that the warning became necessary following findings which showed that, their actions are causing panic and apprehension in the mind of members of the public.

‘The Ogun State police command has noticed with concern the activities of some Vigilante and local security men who have formed the habit of firing gun shot in the air intermittently at night in the name of scaring hoodlums away from their area, thereby causing panic and apprehension in the mind of members of the public’.

The statement said in as much as the command will appreciate any collaborative efforts to keep criminals at bay in the state, declared that such effort should devoid of any act capable of doing more damage than the intended good.

‘The Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson hereby appeal to all vigilante and local security men to desist from sporadic shooting of gun into the air as this has been subjecting members of the public to various degrees of mental and psychological trauma due to the fact that they were misconstruing it to be armed robbery attack within their neighborhoods’, the statement said.

‘The Command also wishes to appeal to the good people of Gateway State not to be unnecessarily apprehensive as the police are doing everything possible to protect them’, Oyeyemi emphasied.