Lagos state won't tolerate cultists, kidnapping and vandalism - Ambode

The Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi
Ambode, yesterday said the menace of cultism
and kidnapping currently sending jitters down
the spine of many Lagos residents will no longer
be tolerated in the state.
Ambode who said this while commissioning the
newly constructed Omo Alade Alafia and
Oloruntoyin/Jebina Streets in Bariga Local
Council Development Area, charged community
leaders in all the 57 Local Government and Local
Council Development Area to report known
cultists, kidnappers and other criminals in their
domains.
The governor emphasized that exposing the
criminals remained the only effective means of
curbing crimes in the state.
Ambode added that apart from aggressively
embarking on infrastructural renewal across the
state, his administration would also do everything
possible to protect lives and property.
He said the state government was determined to
make the state uncomfortable for the cultists,
kidnappers and other criminals.
The governor, who was represented by a
member of the Lagos State House of Assembly,
Hon. Rotimi Abiru and a community leader, Mr.
Raphael Olusegun Ajayi, said that timely report
of kidnapping, cultism, vandalism and hoodlums
will help in dealing with criminal activities in the
state.
The governor said:-
Ambode who urged the community leaders to
take ownership of the facilities, said that plans
were afoot to embark on another round of 114
roads project in all the councils in the state.
According to the governor, it was illegal for
anyone to sell on the road or engage in
unauthorised breaking of roads, adding that it
was also forbidden for anyone to convert the
roads to automobile workshop, as well as refuse
dump site.
“I enjoin our royal fathers,
traditional chiefs, Community
Development Associations, market
men and women and other
stakeholders in our various
communities to address the menace
of cultism, kidnapping, miscreants,
vandalism and hoodlums by
providing timely information to our
security agencies.”



Source :naijaloaded
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE