Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that
thousands of Neighbourhood Watch personnel are currently doing the work of
Amotekun in the state.
He spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday
Politics at the Lagos House.
According to him, apart from community policing, operatives
of the LNSC also engage in border patrol.
Sanwo-Olu said, “It’s just a name change in the case of
Lagos. I appreciate what my colleague governors are doing, and they also
appreciate the peculiar nature of Lagos.
“I have got over 7,000 neighbourhood watch personnel in
Lagos, who are doing exactly the same thing that we have Amotekun doing.
“They are there at the border post giving us daily
monitoring in their localities and feeding it back to the central. They are the
ones feeding us with information. But they cannot carry arms and prosecute
people.
“The borders that I have in Lagos are outside of the
Atlantic Ocean is Ogun state.”
Sanwo-Olu also said the creation of state police is long
overdue, saying it is one of the critical things that would help the country.
He explained that domesticating the police outfit will make
it easier to effectively tackle crimes in different communities.
“It is long overdue, we should make it happen. In fact, that
is one of the critical things that I believe will help us. It has been said
over and over again,” he added.
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