Police vow to curb robberies before xmas

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, has assured Lagosians that the recurrent traffic robberies in the state will be curtailed before the Yuletide.

The CP said a committee had been constituted to deliberate on the security challenges in the state and how to address them.

Owoseni, who spoke on Tuesday during the State Security Council meeting, said the security architecture of the state had been reviewed by the committee and promised that there would be an improvement on the police’s approach to fight criminal activities in the state.

He said, “We looked again at the margin of security challenges and trends that we are facing in Lagos and the need to improve ourselves.

“The council also came up with the need for us to re-commit our personnel to addressing these challenges with a view to ensuring that as we approach the Yuletide, the Christmas period, we would be able to at least reduce the criminalities in the state to the barest minimum and to reassure our people in Lagos that the government is committed to their safety.”

The police boss said there had been improvements in some black spots which were raided for criminal activities, adding that the force would not stop the raid until it achieved appreciable success.

He said, “If you go to Falomo now, that is one of the areas that were identified; the place has been rid of the miscreants that had been occupying the place and it’s been freed.”

“Some other areas have been raided. Some uncompleted buildings in Ebute Meta have been freed of miscreants while the government is working on getting the owners of some of these abandoned properties and is considering whether the approvals that have been given to them should be revoked.”

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who presided over the State Security Council meeting, assured people of the state of increased security surveillance across the metropolis, adding that hideouts would be continuously raided.

He said, “We want to assure the people of the state that the government will increase security surveillance across the metropolis and continuously raid identified hideouts of criminals.”

Credit: Punch