Lagos Has Recorded A Reduction In Crime Rate – Sanwo-Olu

Security strategies put in place by the Lagos State Government has yielded fruits with the reduction in the spate of crime in the State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu disclosed on Tuesday.

Sanwo-Olu said some of the security challenges inherited by his administration at inception had been largely contained, but said his Government was not resting on its oars to keep the State safe for business and living.

He made the disclosure in Alausa, after the State’s final Security Council meeting in the year, after which he led members of the Council to brief the State House reporters about security actions to be taken in the coming New Year.

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Sanwo-Olu said incessant kidnapping was part of the security challenges facing the state when he took over the leadership in May 2019.

He noted that strategies deployed by the Government to confront the scourge had significantly brought down kidnapping and led to positive reviews of the crime in the final quarter of the outgoing year.

Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, corroborated the Governor’s submission stating that security operatives had weakened the capacity of kidnappers in the State, adding that the Council remained vigilant to consolidate on the progress achieved.

Odumosu also disclosed that implementation of the State Government’s amnesty offered repentant secret cultists would start in the New Year, noting that the amnesty would be complemented with an integration programme for the pardoned cultists.

Odumosu said the Council would be initiating a new policy to curtail the activities of commercial motorcycles, known as Okada, on the highways. This plan, the Lagos Police Boss said, will be rolled out within the first four weeks in 2020.

There will be more punitive actions to be taken against those engaging in one-way driving, the Commissioner of Police warned, adding that driving against the traffic is now being considered as a major security issue in Lagos.