Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday renewed his administration’s commitment to flush out militants and pipeline vandals threatening the peace of the state.
Speaking while receiving the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Idris Kpotun Ibrahim, at the Lagos House, Ikeja, said the government will not relent in its effort to tackle all forms of criminal activities.
Ambode said the recent military raids on the hideout of criminal elements has yielded positive result, assuring that all efforts would be made to sustain the success recorded so far.
He said: “I want to commend the Nigeria Police and other security agencies on the fight against a militants and vandals in the last one week. Again, we need to sustain and ensure that these people do not go back to the creeks. “On our part, we are going to do whatever it takes to take the militants and vandals off Lagos. If it means shutting down some locations where they seem to be hibernating in terms of any commercial trade, we would do it and make sure that we guarantee the lives of our people.”
Ambode appealed for more police presence to secure the lives and property of the over 22 Lagos million population.
“I want to thank you for visiting Lagos. You’ve worked in Lagos before. The Lagos of then and the Lagos of now is totally different, the population in Lagos is over 22 million and then the land space is not increasing, so the number of police officers that we have in regards to population is very meagre. So as you recruit policemen, we appeal that more police officers be deployed to Lagos, we have space for them, we can build more police stations and we can equip them effectively,” he told the Acting IGP.
Ambode also requested for more police patrol of the waterways, assuring that his administration would play its own part by ensuring the welfare of officers in the line of duty.
“We also want to say that we have reduced crime in Lagos by 70 per cent in the last six months, but again, some ugly points are coming out along our waterways. We want to partner with you to keep our waterways safe, we need a greater presence of marine police across our waters and we also know that we can support them by providing gun boats, but again we want to say that we would take proper care of welfare of police officers who are assigned to Lagos,” he said.
Earlier, Ibrahim who said he was in Lagos to visit some police formations and appraise recent operations in conjunction with other security outfits, commended the State Government’s support and cooperation to the police and other security agencies in recent time, saying that the synergy between security agencies and the Lagos State Government was worth emulating.
He also lauded the state government for setting up a Security Trust Fund to aid the fight against crime, saying that other states should emulate the model. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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