Insecurity: Lagos Assembly Asks Sanwo-Olu to Convene Security Meeting

The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to convene a security council meeting to stem the rising spate of killings of residents by men in uniform.

At Tuesday’s plenary presided over by the Speaker of the House, Chief Mudashiru Obasa and other lawmakers lamented that the killings had taken the same pattern, with men in uniform being allegedly mentioned.

Chief Obasa stressed that the security of lives and property is one essence of government and added: “Where we begin to have one, two, three killings in the State, it calls for concern.

“I quite agree with the prime mover of the motion to call on Mr Governor to quickly hold a meeting with all heads of security agencies in Lagos State to nip this in the bud.

“At least three people have been declared dead, said to be killed by men in either Police or Army uniforms, and we cannot conclude if they are security men or otherwise.”

Reacting to the recent skirmish between some Army personnel and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officers, the Speaker urged for professionalism and decorum.

Earlier speaking under ‘Matter of Urgent Public Importance’, Mr. Kehinde Joseph (Alimosho 2) called the attention of his colleagues to the recent killings saying the incidents called for concern.

Mr. Joseph recalled that earlier in August 2023, a resident, Adeniyi Sanni, was murdered. He said there were two other incidents on August 17 and August 19.

“The funny thing is that the killings took the same pattern. Adeniyi Sanni’s wife told me that men in military uniforms stopped her husband at a checkpoint. They requested documents which the wife sent through WhatsApp to him. His corpse was later found somewhere.

“Same was the case of Mr Lawal, who was stopped and asked for his documents. They later dropped his corpse in the Iyana-Ipaja area,” he said.

He moved that the police be called upon to step up the security of the State while the military should fish out the men who perpetrate such crimes with Army uniforms. He added that the Governor should act to stem such killings.

 In his contribution, Mr. Bonu Solomon (Badagry 1) observed that it was becoming increasingly difficult to know fake security personnel.