Babcock Renews Pledge To Combat Crime

Babcock’s President/Vice Chancellor, Professor J.A. Kayode Makinde, has renewed the university’s pledge to combating crime and providing scholarship to children of slain policemen. He made this known at his office during a courtesy visit on him by the Ogun State new Area Commander, ACP Kenneth Ebrimson.

“We’re ready to renew our relationship and pledge to offer scholarship to children of fallen policemen,” says Professor Makinde, adding, “We’ll support the police in whichever way we can because one life lost is one life too many.”

He said it was unfortunate that in spite of the fact that the pledge had been made years earlier, the police were yet to latch on this opportunity offered by the university. This, he noted, ‘’would definitely ease the pain and hardship of bereaved families’’.

ACP Ebrimson, who was accompanied by the Ikenne Divisional Police Officer, Oke Oluwasola, expressed gratitude to the university administrators for their logistics support to combating crime in the sate.

He said he was mostly impressed with the university’s gift of fully equipped patrol vans to the state’s police just before his assumption of office.

He noted that unlike other places where universities are usually flash points of violence between police and students, the Babcock story is uniquely different. “It’s commendable of the management team that so far, we’ve not heard of any report of violence arising from cultism and other unsavoury issues.”

Even so, he requested the university’s assistance in providing an additional patrol vehicle and other logistics support. Professor Makinde noted that although Babcock could not immediately acquiesce to the request, it would do whatever is required to ensure the smooth operation of security operatives in the community.

On January 12, Babcock presented the keys of two brand new patrol vans to the police and one to the vigilante group in Ilishan-Remo to step up security in the town.