Kwara police to go hard on campaign billboard, poster vandals

Kwara State Police Command said it has identified and mounting intensive surveillance on destroyers of billboards, banners and posters of candidates of political parties with the intent of bringing the perpetrators to book.

EVENTNG reports that some miscreants with affiliation to the opposition party on Saturday defaced campaign posters belonging to candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ode Alausa, in Ilorin, the state capital.

The hooligans didn’t only destroyed all the APC billboards but also reportedly attacked people within the vicinity as several casualties were recorded.

Sources revealed that many of the victims were hospitalized as a result of serious battering by the hired thugs.

The Kwara state Command, spokesperson, Ajayi Okasanmi, however, confirmed that none of the vandals has been arrested.

According to Okasanmi, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Paul Odama condemned the development, thereby asking politicians to warn their supporters to avoid serious political fracas in the state.

He said, “Intelligence available to the Command has revealed the identities of the perpetrators.

“For the umpteenth time, the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Police Command, CP Paul Odama, psc(+) is advising political parties leaders to call their supporters to order to stop the destructions, defacements of Bill-boards, banners and posters belonging to the opposing political parties.

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“This warning is not limited to any particular political party, but to all political parties.

“The good people of Kwara State are assured of their safety at all times and the determination of the officers and men of the command to prosecute anyone arrested for violating this order.

“This Press Release stands as the last warning by the Command to hoodlums to either drop their lawless ways or pack their bags and relocate from Kwara State or face the consequences of their lawlessness as the Command has the full capacity to deal decisively with any form of criminality, please,” the police noted.