To contain the activities of hoodlums and street urchins in the border communities between Lagos and Ogun States, the Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of additional intelligence and operational assets of the Force, comprising Police Mobile Force (PMF) Units, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and the Special Tactical Squad (STS), to Lagos and Ogun States to strengthen security and bolster public confidence in the affected areas.
The Intervention Team is being coordinated by a Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG Peter Babatunde Ogunyanwo, who doubles as the DIG in charge of the Department of Research and Planning of the Force and the coordinating DIG for South-West Geopolitical Zone.
He is to immediately oversee the deployments of these additional assets to enhance public safety, public confidence and general security in the two (2) States.
Similarly, the IGP has ordered Commissioners of Police across the country to immediately rework the security architecture in their various Commands to effectively tackle all emerging crimes associated with the COVID-19 lock-down. They are also to intensify patrols around residential areas, markets, shopping malls and all critical national infrastructures in their jurisdictions.
The Assistant Inspectors General of Police in the twelve (12) Zonal Commands have also been directed by the Police top boss to bring their supervisory role to bear by ensuring that the Commands under their Zones are safe and secure for the citizenry to live and thrive.
Street urchins and armed robbers have been terrorizing Agege, Abule Egba, Agbado, Sango and other border towns of Lagos and Ogun States for about three days now.
Following police intervention, a total of 191 suspects have been arrested in the two states in connection with the incidents. Many exhibits – 15 locally-made guns, 52 live cartridges, 42 cutlasses and axes and large quantity of weeds suspected to be Marijuana have been recovered from the hoodlums in the Agbado, Ifo, Otta and Agege axis.
The IGP assured the citizens that the police will not sit idly-by and allow activities of a few criminals to disrupt the peace and security of the country.