Timothy Adegunle {Captain Asiwaju ∆}

Actions that (I think) can make Old Oyo National Park safe 1. Permanent, intelligence-driven security presence inside the park. The way police, Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn and hunters are combing the forest now, things would be better if we have a permanent structure like that. If we continue to use these people for crisis response, we'll continue to get the results we're getting. You don't start buying CCTV and weapon when an assailant is already in your room. You buy them down. We need to have people with deep knowledge of the terrain constantly patrolling. 2. A dedicated ranger force with modern communication equipment, drones, and satellite mapping should be stationed at strategic points within the park year-round. 3. The political and legislative work to establish state police must be accelerated. Our local security outfits should be empowered more with training, retraining and ammunitions. 4. Cross-state security coordination needs to be institutionalised. It should not activated only in crisis mode. 5. Community engagement and intelligence networks is urgently needed. Local hunters, farmers, and herdsmen know the park far better than any external security force. Formalising and compensating these community informants, as some states have already started doing, creates a superb human intelligence network. 6. Investment in the communities surrounding the park will reduce the pool from which criminal networks recruit and the number of locals willing to provide them with logistical support. Schools, markets, roads, youth employment is a security measure. Bandits and kidnappers won't stop, unless they're stopped.