Towards this end, a plan has been concluded to construct a befitting permanent Staff Quarters for the use of the Police Division.
An appropriate piece of land has also been identified and selected for the project.
Making this disclosure to www.esaoketodayonline.com were some community leaders who prefer to remained anonymous for now.
Presently, all the DPO serving in the town were usually quartered in an hotel. (Name not disclosed for security reason)
The Area Commander, Obokun Area Command, Nigeria Police Force, Agbemoroti Clement, an Assistant Commissioner of Police. has attributed the incessant movements of the Divisional Police Officers in Esa Oke Division to the non-conducive accommodation always given them in an hotel.
The Area Commander was speaking to www.esaoketodayonline.com in light of the high turn-over of the Divisional Police Officers in the Esa Oke Division.
www.esaoketodayonline.com notes that hardly did a DPO spend more than five months in the town since ACP Kazeem Babalola left about two years ago. ACP Babalola, spent three years plus in the Division as the DPO.
On September 1, 2026, barely four months ago, a new DPO SP Ogunmola Samson Oloyede resumed office in the Division, replacing CSP Osabia Sam Dare who assumed duty in the Division in May this year.
The new DPO had earlier served as an Admin Officer at State Motor Traffic Division, (SMTD), Osogbo between 2022 to 2023.
He also served as second-in-Command in the State Motor Traffic Division from 2023 to 31st August, 2026.
SP Oyedele, enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force on December 1st, 1999 and trained at the Nigeria Police College, Ikeja, Lagos as Police Constable.
On 3rd of August, 2009, he was admitted into Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State as Cadet Inspector.
He had served in several departments and formations from 2013 till 2018.
He also served as a Mobile Police Force (MOPOL16 Abeokuta and PMF Training College, Ila Orangun), between 2018 and 2019. He was deployed from PMF to Cross River State, where he served as the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) and District Officer in Yala Local Government; from there, he was remobilised into 37 PMF Lokoja, Kogi State, as Unit Commander.
He served as the Unit Commander, 37 PMF Lokoja, Kogi State between 2019 to 2022. During this period he was sent to Borno State on operation to curb the growing excesses and activities of Boko Haram terrorists.