Respite may soon come the way of residents of Lagos state
following the activities of deadly armed robbers who invade the state
from creeks.
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| Nigerian policemen |
This assurance was given by the assistant inspector general of police in charge of Air Wing, Samuel Aguda.
Aguda gave this assurance while responding to last week Tuesday,
October 13, bank robbery at the Festac Town area in the state where two
banks, Access and Diamond banks were attacked by more than forty armed
men dressed in military camouflage and which led to the killing of a
nurse and her baby.
The AIG said: “We attended a meeting with the Inspector General
of Police Solomon Arase concerning the security challenges in Lagos
state especially on the issue of armed robbers using the waterways.
“Among other strategies to be deployed to halt this crime, the
IGP has ordered that we deploy helicopter to monitor the waterways. So
very soon Lagos state will gets an helicopter monitoring its waterways
and this will be a continuous operation. We are going to arrest these
armed robbers.
“The police authority will deploy all means to ensure we arrest these criminals and protect lives and property in the state.”
It was gathered that the police in Lagos state has beefed up security in Festac Town and waterways in the environs.
A police source, however, stated that the state commissioner of
police Fatia Owoseni has redeployed the Area E Commander ACP Frank Mba
following the bank robberies last week in Festac Town.
The source added that the directive to redeploy ACP Mba is from the Force headquarters Abuja.
The source said: ” ACP Frank Mba has been deployed to Osun State
police command as that Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of
Criminal Investigation Department. His posting follows the failure of
his men to avert the bank robberies and killings his redeployment is
with immediate effect.”
The bank robbery in Festac Town is coming barely three months after
Toyin Nwosu, the wife of the managing editor of the Sun newspaper was
kidnapped from her house by suspected armed robbers who stormed the area
in canoes from the creeks.
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