Friday, January 24, 2025 - Residents of the Senior Civil Servants Housing Estate, located at Ayerose village in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, have lamented the continuous burglary of their homes and loss of properties.
The estate, which comprises 51 buildings, has been plagued by incessant
burglaries, with an estimated over N120 million worth of property stolen.
Speaking to journalists after inspecting the burgled houses in the
estate on Thursday, the state chairman of the association, Issa Olude, urged
Governor Dapo Abiodun to intervene by providing improved security measures.
Olude stated that the lack of security and the deplorable road condition
have forced many residents to abandon their homes for accommodation in safer
areas.
He said: “As senior civil servants, we have considered it necessary to
have a befitting estate that can probably stand the test of time for civil and
senior civil servants. We have 51 buildings here, and what we have was from
savings of members.
“We want to appeal to the government to provide Amotekun corps, we want
both afternoon and night parades and security of the estate so that senior
civil servants can have a rest of sleep and prepare for their work daily.”
Sunday Adeboye, a member of the association and president of the estate,
lamented that the civil servants who are supposed to live in a safe and secure
living environment now live in fear due to increased burglary of their homes.
Adeboye disclosed that despite previous interventions by the state
government, including the installation of solar streetlights and the
construction of culverts, the estate’s residents continue to face significant
security challenges.
He said: “The electrification in each of the houses has been vandalised.
Where they have restrictions and resistance against break-in, they vandalise
the anti-buglary doors and some properties of people were carted away.”
He regarded the poor condition of the road leading to the estate as a
contributing factor and called for immediate repairs to stop the incidents from
reoccurring in the future.
“We appeal to all necessary agencies involve to come to our aid in
providing a motorable road to this place; one of the reasons some of our
colleagues left their homes here was because the road is bad.
“And that is one thing we cannot do individually, the road is not a one
man thing, it is beyond us. We need government to please come to our aid to see
that we have peace of mind in this community.”
Also speaking, Ibrahim Fatai, secretary of the estate, disclosed that no
fewer than 15 houses have been targeted by burglars in recent weeks.
Fatai added that a suspected burglar was caught, and arrested alongside
those who bought the stolen electrical wirings from him.
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