PROPER HOME TRAINING REMEDY FOR CRIMINAL TENDENCIES- OGUN CJ

The Ogun State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Olumide Ayeni has suggested proper up-bringing as well as home training as panacea for curbing criminality and juvenile delinquencies towards having a peaceful nation. Ayeni gave this charge while fielding questions from newsmen on lifting of moratorium on death penalty and capital punishment at his office, Oke-mosan, Abeokuta with the advice that Parents should guide their children aright especially on good behavioural conducts in order to avoid facing severe laws of the land He added that youths should also be advised on the need to shun all acts capable of truncating the peace, security and economic advancement, emphasizing that the present administration would not hesitate to wield the big steak against any erring citizen irrespective of the personality involved. “The present administration holds the security of lives and property in the state paramount and would not tolerate activities or behaviours capable of destroying the peace and orderliness in the State, as the state is investors’ destination of choice”. According to Ayeni, ‘’without adequate security in place no investor would want to invest in an insecure State. This is the more reason for lifting the ban on moratorium on death penalty/capital punishment. The onus falls on individuals and parents to discipline their children as Government would not hesitate to implement this in accordance with due process’’. The Commissioner disclosed further that the present administration had pardon many especially awaiting trial inmates since its inception as no execution had been carried out in the last decade. The Attorney General said Governor Ibikunle Amosun took an oath of office to act in accordance with the law of the land without fear and favour, the Governor would not hesitate to implement the sentence after due process had been followed.