By Adedokun Seyi
Mr. Victor Gboyega Fadeyibi, the Ag. CSO of University of Ibadan has listed the security challenges against the security unit on campus and has also provided insights into the security arrangements on campus which had largely checkmated criminality.
In a chat with him, the Deputy CSO made it known that “risk management and profiling”, one of the security strategies adopted, has led to the recovery of many stolen properties from some bad boys who sneak into the campus to break into people’s abode.
He said that “with this risk management and profiling method, we do randomly stop and search suspected individuals, ask them to open the laptops they are carrying. Once they couldn’t do this, we would arrest them and thoroughly investigate them. We have in this process recovered many laptops, arrested many of the bad boys around”.
The one-time National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) State Coordinator also said, “December 31 of every year is always a day of a serious security challenge for us in this University. This is a day bad boys from neighboring areas such as Agbowo, Apete, Ojoo, Sango usually invade this campus to take advantage of festive period to burgle houses and steal people’s property. But we always checkmate them despite our challenges”.
Mr. Fadeyibi disclosed the inadequacy in the security unit manpower as he discussed the challenges facing the unit, emphasizing that “the last time the University employed people into the unit was in 2012 as there is subsisting embargo on employment.”
“Between 2012 and now, many of our men and women have died, some have retired, yet the campus keeps expanding. We have some security men who have not gone on leave in the last 10 years. Our workforce is overused. It is against this background that I appeal to Council through the Vice Chancellor to consider recruiting people into security unit under the doctrine of necessity”, he said.
He negotiated that priority should be given to the security unit and those working there because, “without reliable security, stakeholders on campus including students and lecturers may not be able to face duties with sufficient peace of mind.”
Mr. Fadeyibi, while attributing the immediate past CSO, Mr. Joseph Ade Akindoyo, commended that he has been able to build on the former CSO’s achievements by uniting different factions within the workforce.
“I don’t like taking my men and women to Staff Disciplinary Committee because if they sack any one of them, the replacement is not available, who will now work with me? Nobody is beyond redemption. I know how to reform any perceived recalcitrant person in order to get the best from him or her. The most important thing is that we must work together to give UI the best of our service”, he said.
