Women in trouble in Ibadan as 365 rape cases recorded by Police

               

Oyo State Police Command on Tuesday in Ibadan, the state capital, disclosed that it made a record of an average of one rape case per day in the year 2013, making a total of 365 rape cases as against 332 recorded in 2012.

Similarly, the command secured 1, 078 convictions of criminals charged to court during the year under review and recovered a total of 198 stolen vehicles between June and December of the same year.

The state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Ndabawa made this disclosure at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan while briefing journalists on the activities of the Command in the outgone year.

As part of the scorecard of the command for 2013 presented on behalf of Ndabawa by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Ilobanafor, the Command said it embraced intelligence led and proactive policing leading to the arrest of 1098 bags of Indian Hemp in November 2013 worth N18m.

The CP said an action plan had been mapped out to ensure the safety of lives and properties and maintenance of law and order in the state in 2014, recalling that   constant raids of Criminal black spots, high visibility Policing and other adopted crime prevention strategies helped significantly to achieve crime reduction within Oyo State Command in 2013.

The Commissioner who said the command arrested 122 Armed robbery suspects added that a total of 60,997 ammunitions were recovered.

Ndabawa further said that the state witnessed reduction in suicide recording 14 suicides in 2013 as against 17 recorded in 2012.