Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has expressed his administration’s resolve to double up efforts to check the menace of robbery in traffic gridlock in some trouble spots in the state as well as street trading.
Briefing Government House Correspondents after the State Security Council Meeting, State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni said the Council looked at the security and crime situation in the past one month with a focus on the menace of street trading, land-grabbers, and all other security issues in the state.
“We’ve looked at the areas where we are winning, the areas where we need to step up our activities and one of those areas we looked at critically is the issue of the guys that rob on the highway in traffic gridlock.
“We have taken a decision to do all what we can do to step all activities, first, to decongest the traffic gridlock, because if we do that once traffic moves, we are going to take the street traders and hawkers off the road”, Owoseni said.
He said efforts were ongoing to decongest traffic, saying that it
would go a long way to reduce the incidence of unsuspecting citizens falling victim to traffic robbers.
“Once we decongest, we would also reduce the incidence of people robbing motorists on the road and of course the response time to distress call will be improved upon. Those are the things we looked at.”
“The meeting also took the decision that we continue our onslaught against criminals especially the land grabbers to make sure that they are brought to justice, once they are arrested, diligent investigation and prosecution carried out, to show examples to others”, he said.
Owoseni said the Council also deliberated on the menace of cultists, adding that efforts have been made within the last one month, jointly by security agencies to clamp down on …Read More
Source:: New Mail
