Lagos State | Police holds emergency meeting over killings, insecurity

The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, yesterday summoned all heads of operational units in the state following unabated kidnappings and killings in the past few weeks.

While the state security apparatus was still battling with how to rescue the kidnapped Iba monarch and others still in kidnappers’ den in Ishawo and Igbolomu areas of the state, the Igando community was attacked by gunmen suspected to be former pipeline vandals.

Grapevine sources revealed that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was worried over the security status of Lagos and has showed his displeasure to the Lagos State police boss over the trend.

According to a source at the command headquarters in GRA, Ikeja, the CP at the meeting gave a matching order to the Marine Department, Mobile Police Squadron 20, 22 and the Counter-Terrorism Unit to fish out the criminals behind all the mayhem.

The state police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police, who confirmed the emergency meeting told The Guardian that “the days of these militants are numbered, that I can assure you. The command is really bitter about the activities of these criminals. Steps are being taken at the emergency security meeting to finally capture these hoodlums and stop their terror.

“We have clues and we are working on them now. In the case of Igando, the community assisted us with quick tip-off, which helped us to foil the attempt. Some of the residents of Igando called the Commissioner of Police and said they slept last night with their two eyes closed.”

Speaking on the alleged speculation of another incident of kidnapping in Ishawo area of Ikorodu, Badmos said the only kidnap incident they were battling with in Ikorodu was that of the clergyman abducted in a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in the area.