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Shasha Youths Reacting To Hoodlums Attacks, Mount Road Blocks
Since Sunday, 29th March 2020 when President Muhammadu Buhari in a Nationwide broadcast declared total lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun State for an initial period of fourteen days to break the circle of transmission of coronavirus pandemic, people have lately found themselves struggling to survive their lives and preserve themselves and properties beyond the threat of the pandemic in a swift wave of large scale hooliganism, cultism and armed robbery.
The sudden rise of the mayhem and the surge of terrorist operation between Lagos and Ogun State have alarmed several residents having spearheaded serial attacks on Ogun State suburbs like Ijoko, Abule Oke, Joju, Sango, Ilepa, Ifo, Ibogun, and spilling over to Lagos communities like Moshalashi, Abule-Egba, Idimu, Ogba and Agege.
The masterminds of the attacks so far accused were “One Million Boys”, “Awawa Boys” and “Cultists on campuses where they are residents. Members of the community have also attributed the escalating tension to rivalries between cultist groups of Shasha Orisunbare and Idimu in Alimosho Local Government Area in the State.
Information gathered revealed that Shasha Youths trailed the hoodlums when these evil workers operated in Agege and penetrated a popular bar and hotel in the vicinity on Easter Sunday, who took cover under the approaching nightfall and dispossessed people of their belongings such as phone, money and food items.
The youths who kept vigil on that Sunday night foiled the threat of the hoodlums turned armed robbers with burnt fire across the whole community. On Easter Monday, the hoodlums in a renewed advance invaded another community very close to the Shasha Kingdom in the day time and robbed.
The youths in response trouped out in scores in their procession to repeal the attack. They were out with dangerous mercenaries with a different axe, cutlasses, iron rods, long sticks, pestles, daggers, hovels and bottles. The scene was wild and weird to behold, with grave implication to what can happen, if men were allowed to carry arms in a modern State.
The police division had reacted to people resulting in self-help claiming that members of the community are supposed to report any threat at its station. The police authority in Lagos State had also dispelled that there were robbery cases in any part of the State.
However, eyewitnesses had faulted the police claim saying that they watched the armed robbers terrorising their communities, killed, wounded and dispossessed people of their valuable belongings. The Command in Lagos alone had made an arrest of hoodlums beyond five hundred men, aside from the number of arrests made by their counterpart in Ogun State.
Shasha boys on Monday mounted roadblock to check movement of inward vehicles into the area. Hordes of residents gripped by fear also filled in magnitude along both sides of the road. For two days now, the community plunged into sleepless nights.
Considering the rising threat of the hoodlums, police authority in Shasha and the Command level should have sought for understanding and cooperation of community youths, if they really wish to end the incessant attacks on innocent and defenceless citizens to achieve the fight against coronavirus and the stay at home order of Federal Government. The police in its own rating should consider the relative number of its personnel in achieving a real peace that this particular period demands.
These hoodlums in most cases have been found to be political mercenaries of their masters in Government who later failed to give them a facelift to live a decent life.
Governments at Federal and State levels had promised palliatives for vulnerable people, and wealthy individuals and the corporate sector had made massive investments running to a Trillion Naira to support Government achieve its ultimate purpose on the spread of the pandemic.
Unfortunately, the lack of accurate data has not enabled the concerned authorities to live up to their promises.
The future of our great country, Nigeria lies in tracking everybody’s information across their occupation lines and income levels vis a vis public service, corporate sectors, self-employed persons, retirees earning lowest monthly pensions, vulnerable children whose parents are extremely poor, people who earned daily income from menial jobs, petty traders, unemployed youths can easily be given cash transfer of the earmarked Twenty Thousand Naira through various commercial banks if Governments really care to bequeath a well-secured future for the Country and her citizens.
In conclusion, the existence of police is not a panacea to peace, but to foil civil and criminal disobedience that may not arise, if people have some relative peace with themselves.
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