° As activist wants police leadership to rigid security
There is palpable fear that Kidnappers may have returned to Lagos as a woman, Mrs. Gbemisola Alabi, who was on early morning jogging around Monastery Road, near Novare mall – Shoprite Shongotedo. Ajah was abducted. She was kidnapped Sunday morning while she went jogging. A family source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said:
” Our sister has been kidnapped while she was jogging early Sunday morning. We need the police help to find her. Please, people should help us share her photo on all your social media handles;
put a call through to people you feel can help us. Call the Ajah police command if you have any information or call Mr. Adebayo, with 08029998831. Adebayo is representing the family. Anything you can do, do, please. We also need your prayers that she returns home soon and in good health” Lagos State Police public relations officer ( PPRO), Bala Elkana, confirmed the abduction of the Lady, saying that the police were making efforts to secure her release and bring her abductors to book.
The kidnapping was on the increase before the former Lagos State Commissioners of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni and Mr. Imohimi Edgal came in to head the command and gave the hoodlums the battle for their crimes and chased them away. Before CP Owoseni, kidnapping became the order of the day as the evil people started kidnapping school children.
They stormed schools at Ikorodu, Ajah, Isheri and other areas of the state, where they abducted School children for ransom. One of the kingpins, known in the underworld as TK was shot dead during Owoseni’s time as the CP. The Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), led by DCP Abba Kyari, was invited and the team made several arrests and killed many of the kidnappers during an exchange of gun firing. After IRT’s exploit, kidnapping stopped in the state.
But with the kidnap of Fire Service boss, Rassak Fadipe, recently and with that of Alabi, Lagosians are worried that kidnappers have returned to Lagos. Right activist, Mark Okolie, wants the Lagos State Police Command to up its games in the area of crime-fighting. Comrade Okolie said:
” The former Commissioners, Mr. Fatai Owoseni and Mr. Imohimi Edgal, did wonderfully well during their tenure in the Command. Edgal, in particular, carried the war to the doorposts of the criminals. The dogged fight against crime and criminality forced many of the hoodlums to flee the state while others who had no chance surrendered their arms, ammunition and other dangerous weapons to the police who granted them amnesty.
” I want the present leadership of the police in Lagos, to toe the line of Edgal who personally led operations to criminal hideouts. I am happy that after Edgal’s exit, the Deputy Commissioner of police in charge of operations, Mr. Mohammed Ali is still on the ground. Ali worked tirelessly with Edgal, so, he should be given free hands by the Commissioner of police to help him in the battle against criminal elements, especially kidnappers.
Lagos is the safest state in the country, so the police and other security agents, should not allow kidnappers to take over the state. They should nip the ugly trend in the bud”.
