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In reply please quote, CZ: 5300/ZN. 5/DFA/ZPPRD/VOL. 1/168 Date: 18th June, 2021.           POLICE PRESS RELEASE AIG ZONE 5 BENIN HOLDS MEETING WITH LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE EDO STATE SECURITY NETWORK (VIGILANTE).    The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5 Headquarters, Benin City, AIG ISAAC O. AKINMOYEDE, psc, fdc, MNIM, on Tuesday 15th June, 2021 held a meeting with the leaders and members of the Edo State Security Network (Vigilante) operating In Edo State. The meeting was sequel to an unfortunate incident of murder, arson and sporadic shooting at Ugonoba Community in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State. Those in attendance at the meeting were the Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, all Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, Sectional Heads from the Edo State Police Command and the Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Security. 2. On Sunday 13th June, 2021, the Police received information that the house of the leader of Ugonoba

Osun State Polytechnic, Iree (popularly known, and herein referred to as OSPOLY), became autonomous on the 12th day of October 1992, after the creation of states in 1991 (Pg12, Ospoly Student's Guardian August 2020 Revised Edition).  In historic times, according to research, Ospoly was not known for academic excellence, it used to be an institution where people referred to, as a place to obtain certificates for self-development. It was fondly called ' Iree for show'.  As time flew, the management made academic excellence their priority, and in their pursuit, introduced policies aimed at vitiating outsiders' "descriptions" of their students, having produced the most polytechnic graduates in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They started the implementation of strict monitoring on examination systems. The introduction of a new sitting arrangement in examination settings (which the students used to call ' One Ghana; One Congo ') gave a limeli

On June 9, 2021, LetUsVote Team Members visited the National Orientation Agency office in Osogbo. In their meeting which started around 11:30am in the NOA office in Osogbo lasted for 2 hours.  Advocate Babawale presented the LetUsVote campaign as a citizens’ driven voters’ drive and advocacy for active participation in in the electoral process.  "This is a non-partisan movement of young people who believe in voting power and the role of electoral education. Our mission is to ensure that all citizens who have attained the voting age get registered to vote, collect their permanent voters’ card, vote on election day and make their votes count through access to information. We have our network of advocates widely spread across the 3,010 polling units in the 332 registration areas of the Osun state’s 30 local government areas." He said "Considering the mandate and realizing the importance of your office and the need for proper orientation of the people

The meeting which started around 11:30am in the NOA office in Osogbo with introduction of the NOA staffs and LetUsVote working committee. NOA staff Present: Chief Accountant, D/Director PRS, D/Director Programmes, Mr. Ibikunle Oluropo (Director),  LetUsVote Working Committee Babawale Popoola (Irepodun) Adeyeye Rasheed(Ife East) Awwal Lawal(Osogbo) Tajudeen Bola (Boripe) Surajudeen A/Hameed (Ede South) Oyewale Segun (Ejigbo). Babawale present at the meeting the vision, mission and core values of the LetUsVote movement being facilitated by Raising New Voices Initiative, supported by OneforAll Initiative. He reiterate the need to be involve in ensuring good governance through citizen participation in electoral process. He further said, the movement planned to achieve this through sensitization across the grassroots to educate the people the need to be part of building the society which is why we want to partner with NOA to preach against violence, vote buying and a