LAGOS: Ambode Commends Security Operatives, Warns Over Criminality

Akinwunmi Ambode,FCA

LAGOS State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday warned that the state under his administration cannot be held to ransom as it will decisively deal with anyone culpable in any form of criminality from any quarters.
 

Ambode gave this warning while celebrating the successful rescue operation of three school girls from the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary schoolgirls abducted in Ikorodu last week.

Addressing the newsmen at the Government House in Alausa, the governor said he was confident that the girls would be found adding that such nuisance and threat to residents lives would not be tolerated.

“Let me warn that the State Government will not tolerate kidnapping or any forms of crime in the state. Our position is clear and unambiguous; Lagos State has the capacity and the will to go after every form of crime and criminality in order to safeguard lives and property in the state.”

“The Lagos State Police Command, the Department of State Service and members of the Armed Forces worked tirelessly round the clock in the last six days to secure the release of the children. I thank them for a good job.

“The three girls have been safely reunited with their families and the Government wishes to assure Lagosians that their security is top priority and it will not relent in ensuring that Lagos remains safe and secure.

“As our daughters are reunited with their mothers and other members of their families, I would like to seize this opportunity to wish all mothers in Lagos State and Nigeria at large a happy Mothers’ Day,” the governor said.