A group, Save Lagos Group has lamented the spate of kidnapping in Lagos
State with a damning verdict that residents of the state are no longer save
under the current administration led by Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.
In a statement issued by the group in its reaction to the kidnap of school
children and their teachers released on Friday, the Convener, Comrade
Adeniyi A. Sulaiman and the Director of Media and Strategy, Comrade Olaolu
Oladipo said the statement government has been paying lip service to the
issue of securing the lives and property of residents of the state.
According to the group, the spate of insecurity in the state has assumed
worrisome dimension under the current government, in spite of stated huge
investment in security as claimed by the state government.
“We have been daily inundated (in the print media) that the state
government has been investing heavily in its efforts to secure residents of
the state. As at the last count, the state government had claimed that it
has expended over N4billion to procure security gadgets to equip security
personnel attached to the various security agencies.
“To our surprise, the state has continued to record serious security
breaches, most especially under the current government, a situation that
calls to question, the integrity of the claims of the state government in
this direction.” The statement reads in part.
According to the group, the kidnap of a traditional ruler in the state, the
Oniba of Iba, Oba Yishau Oseni ought to have served as a wake up call on
the state government to live up to its responsibility of securing the state.
“Rather, the spate of kidnappings has gone on unabated with the state
government having no clue on how to nip the scourge in the bud. What is
even more worrisome is the fact that these merchants of evil (owing to the
laxity on the part the state government) have carried their trade a notch
further by raiding a school, carting away pupils and their teachers.”