Police to Begin Manhunt for Cultists, Street Gangs in Lagos State

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Assistant Commissioner of Police, Operations, Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Emmanuel Ngwu (2nd left), fielding questions from State House Correspondents shortly after the State Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola SAN at the State House, Marina, on Wednesday, September 03, 2014. With him are: Commander NNS BeeCroft Olokun Apapa, Navy Commodore Ovenseri Emmanuel Uwadiae (2nd right), Commander Airforce Base Ikeja, Air Commodore AL Osanyintolu (right) and the Director, State Security Service, Mr. Ben Olayi (left).
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Operations, Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Emmanuel Ngwu (2nd left), fielding questions from State House Correspondents shortly after the State Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola SAN at the State House, Marina, on Wednesday, September 03, 2014. With him are: Commander NNS BeeCroft Olokun Apapa, Navy Commodore Ovenseri Emmanuel Uwadiae (2nd right), Commander Airforce Base Ikeja, Air Commodore AL Osanyintolu (right) and the Director, State Security Service, Mr. Ben Olayi (left).
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Operations, Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Emmanuel Ngwu (2nd left), fielding questions from State House Correspondents shortly after the State Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Babatunde Fashola SAN at the State House, Marina, on Wednesday, September 03, 2014. With him are: Commander NNS BeeCroft Olokun Apapa, Navy Commodore Ovenseri Emmanuel Uwadiae (2nd right), Commander Airforce Base Ikeja, Air Commodore AL Osanyintolu (right) and the Director, State Security Service, Mr. Ben Olayi (left).

September 3, 2014 – The Lagos State command of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has emphasized the readiness of his men to go after cultist and street gangs who have formed the habit of terrorizing residents of the state.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Emmanuel Ngwu made the revelation after the weekly State Security Council Meeting presided over by Governor Babatunde Fashola.

He said that the governor has directed that the police in collaboration with other security agencies will work to ensure that Lagos is rid of cultists and street gangs.

“We are not going to fold our arms and watch cult members killing and maiming innocent and law-abiding Lagosians. So, we are moving in, in conjunction with every other security agency in Lagos State; we are going after them, either they change or we catch them, arrest them and prosecute them in court. That is the directive”.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police advised Okada riders in the State to restrict their operations to the roads approved for them in the Lagos State Road Traffic Law warning that the Police would continue to enforce the law as long as they continue to ply roads not approved by the law.

“Let us obey a simple law. Lagos State Government has been so magnanimous, they never banned Okada. They restricted Okada on some routes; let Okada riders take only those routes they are allowed to take and stop coming on the Expressway and the routes on which they are restricted. If they continue to go on the routes they are prohibited, Police will continue to clamp down on them”, he said.

On issue of the use of siren, Ngwu recalled that the former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar Manko, who is currently an AIG, has given the mandate that every person who is not authorized to use siren must now stop using it adding, “If you are caught, you face the law. That is the definite instruction”.

He said his men would work in collaboration with other security agencies in the State to reduce crime and criminality to the barest minimum during the “EMBER” months comprising September, October, November and December.

“If you are not new in Lagos you will recognize that each time the EMBER months arrive security agencies in Lagos begin to be proactive. This is because if you look at the population of Lagos you will see the need for the police and the armed forces that are helping the Police to do their job and every other security agencies to be ready”, the Police boss said.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ngwu was accompanied at the press briefing by other members of the Security Council including the Commanding Officer, 9 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Ikeja, Brigadier-General Dalubo, Commander NNS Beecroft, Commodore Overiseri Emmanuel Uwadiae, Director, State Security Service, Mr. Ben Olaiyi, Commander, Air Force Base 435 BSG, Ikeja, Air Commodore A.L. Osanyintolu and Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Major Tunde Panox (retd).

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