The Coordinator of Edo State Security Corps, CP Friday Ibadin (retd.), has urged 11,089 personnel of the defunct Edo State Security Network now ESSC to make themselves available for profiling.
Ibadin stated this in Benin, the state capital, on Saturday where he said the Governor Monday Okpebholo-led administration is striving towards a safer Edo State.
He noted that the governor wants a safe state as there can be no development without security, adding that security and development work side by side.
Ibadin urged personnel to make themselves available for reprofiling at the designated locations in the three senatorial districts of the state.
He said, “Available records indicate that there are 11,098 personnel across the state. The profiling exercise is to place the state security outfit on a better footing for enhanced security of the state.
“Profiling will be done simultaneously on Monday, December 2, 2024, at the Police Area Command at Auchi, for personnel in Edo North, for Edo Central, they will converge at the public field in Esan North East while those for Edo South will take their turn in Benin.”
He said all the personnel should be fully kitted, urging them to come with their identity cards and those with arms should also come with them.
He said, “The reason why we are trying to profile and re-evaluate our personnel is to know our strength, composition and disposition.
“We have appointed coordinators from the three Senatorial District in the state to profile the personnel who must be properly kitted. They should be fully kitted in uniforms, ID cards and their firearms for proper profiling as we will give the arms code to properly differentiate them.
“We want the members of the public to be aware of what we are doing as we are striving towards a safer Edo State because, without a safe society, there can’t be development. Security and development work side by side.
“Security is quite an expensive venture, insecurity is more expensive. We are doing all to sanitise the whole system so that our people can sleep with their two eyes closed and be very grateful to the security outfit in place as well as Governor Okpebholo’s administration.”
