The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar, for the first time visited Lagos after the nationwide youth demonstration against human rights violations and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) brutality. While addressing hundreds of police officers and men of the Lagos State Police Command in Ikeja yesterday, the IGP vowed to ensure the apprehension of all the suspects who participated in the burning and looting of police stations and private businesses in Lagos State.
Adamu urged policemen to resume to duty, as not all civilians hate them. “You are very special people, trained not to be provoked. We have lost lives, but we have to realise that not all the civilians attacked us, so far, 1,590 suspects have been arrested across the country for burning of the police station and looting of government and private properties." He said.
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, also received Adamu, at the State House in Marina, the governor commended the officers for exercising restraint in the face of the attacks.
Sanwo-Olu informed the IGP of the move by the state government to rebuild the razed police stations and offer scholarship awards to the children of the officers killed in the violence. Assuring him that all the requests sent to the state government by the police would be fulfilled.
Over 1,000 hoodlums involved in #EndSARS violence arrested.
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November 04, 2020
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Reviewed by Esther Temilade
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November 04, 2020
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