Lagos Assembly urges Sanwo-Olu to equip Neighbourhood Watch

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Lagos State House of Assembly has urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to increase the number of officers in the Neighbourhood Safety Corps.

The lawmakers also implored the governor to equip the state’s security agency to enable it adequately protect the lives and property of the residents.At its plenary, yesterday, the House further resolved that the governor should call on the Commissioner of Police in the state to intensify efforts on security.

While the lawmaker escaped death, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress , whose name was given as Kayode Samuel and who stood beside him, was hit and later confirmed dead.Raising the issue as a ‘matter of urgent public importance’, Age-Sulaiman narrated how he escaped death from gunshot. He said the incident occurred in Oriade Local Council Development Area .

“We were about going out when somebody told me not to go out and two persons stood beside me and right there I heard a gunshot and the next person beside me shouted my leg with blood-stains,” he said, adding that he escaped by the whiskers.Commenting on the incident, Rotimi Olowo, condemned the use of thugs to settle political matters. He also urged that security in the county must be given more seriousness through the establishment of state police.

 

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