Lagos govt promises to rescue kidnapped persons

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday, July 18 presided over an emergency security meeting by heads of security agencies in the state.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni revealed to journalists that the meeting was imperative following the kidnap of high-profile individuals in the state, especially the Oniba of Ibaland, Oba Goriola Oseni.

He said the security agencies are bothered and are exerting all efforts to rescue all those kidnapped in the state.

“What we want to assure the people is that we are putting efforts together to ensure that not just the monarch is rescued but also other victims of kidnapping are rescued and we bring those criminals to justice,” Owoseni said.

Owoseni added that the emergency security council meeting was to assure members of the public on the priority and importance that the State attached to their welfare and security.

“All of us are bothered As the people are bothered, government is bothered and law enforcement institutions in the State are bothered. We are looking at the issue of kidnapping and the only thing we can tell the good people in Lagos is that government is doing everything possible and is deploying all arsenals of the State towards ensuring that we put a stop to all these and at the same time seize this opportunity to tell the fellows engaging in these activities to channel their energy to lawful conduct because there is no excuse to say that because they cannot vandalize the pipelines again, that is why they are resorting to all these soft targets kidnapping.

“They should divert their energy into productive use. The government has opened up lots of opportunities for people that want to access soft loans for small scale businesses and industries, the Bank of Industry (BOI) for instance is there, they have been putting up adverts, let them have a change of mind, drop their weapons, access these funds that government at the State and federal level had created and for those of them that have certificates and saying that yes we have stopped bunkering and there is no other thing for us to do, there are platforms that have been created by government for them to be meaningfully employed,” the CP said.

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