The Lagos state government has decided to take steps against kidnappings and other forms of criminality by focusing on property owners
The government, after a security council meeting, has said part of the new steps to be taken is to have buildings where criminals live confiscated
The commissioner of police in the state, Fatai Owoseni, who was at the meeting, also said the road traffic law would now be fully enforced
Landlords in Lagos state must now be extremely careful as the government has declared that henceforth, any property used as hideout by criminals would be confiscated.
The government sees this as a way to curb the growing cases of kidnapping and other related crimes in the state.
The government also vowed to double its efforts in enforcing the restriction of commercial motorcycles, popularly called okada, on certain routes as well as the ban on street trading.
It warned that security agencies have been placed on red alert and that there would no longer be any hiding place for criminal elements in any part of the state.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who presided over the security council meeting on Tuesday, August 9, 2016, said the government had resolved to henceforth embark on massive and aggressive confiscation of properties used as hideouts by criminal elements in the state.
This latest decision is coming the same day traditional rulers in the state declared that the state would no longer be safe for criminals.
Also speaking, Mr Fatai Owoseni, the state police commissioner, said: “The take away for today after the security council meeting is for us to look at all the strategies that we have been employing in tackling the security challenges that we had in the state and to further strategise with the view to sustaining those measures that would put all the criminal elements in check and the security council of the state has come out to let our people know emphatically that the state is more poised at tackling all the criminal challenges and making sure that all the criminal elements that are going about in the state will not be allowed any free reign; they will not be given freedom of space to practise any of their criminal acts.
“There is no hiding place for criminal elements again in the state and as we get them, they would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
“In addition to that, the council resolved that any structure or any places of hiding that criminal elements are using in the state, the state will not hesitate, in the interest of the public, to take over those safe havens, structures or houses that these criminal elements are using as hiding places to perpetrate their criminal activities.” He continued: “The state still want to use this opportunity to further enlighten the public on the need to observe those laws that have been made in order to make life easy for the good people of Lagos.
“The two particular ones that we have looked at is the restriction of the commercial motorcycles to certain routes in the state and of course the activities of street traders. “What we want people to know is that the State is not sleeping on its enforcement duties but government is just trying to be responsible in the way these laws are enforced.
“The security council wants us to seize this opportunity to let the people know that these laws are made to be complied with and that we will not stop at making sure that they are enforced as they are supposed to be, and that elements that contravene these laws would also be made to face the law.”
The traffic law, as passed by the state House of Assembly in 2012, forbids the motorcyclists from plying highways and major roads within the state. The government also has restrictions on street trading. There had, however, been complaints that the road traffic law of the state is not fully implemented as commercial motorcycles have since returned to the roads which they were barred from plying. But Owoseni said that the government was only trying to enforce the law with human face, just as he appealed for cooperation from the people.
The government seems worried of the recent increase in the rate of criminal activities in the state. There have been cases of kidnappings and vandalism which the government is fighting in collaboration with the federal government. A victim of kidnapping and prominent traditional ruler in Lagos, Oba Goriola Oseni, recently regained freedom while the police paraded two of the suspected abductors.
The government, after a security council meeting, has said part of the new steps to be taken is to have buildings where criminals live confiscated
The commissioner of police in the state, Fatai Owoseni, who was at the meeting, also said the road traffic law would now be fully enforced
Landlords in Lagos state must now be extremely careful as the government has declared that henceforth, any property used as hideout by criminals would be confiscated.
The government also vowed to double its efforts in enforcing the restriction of commercial motorcycles, popularly called okada, on certain routes as well as the ban on street trading.
It warned that security agencies have been placed on red alert and that there would no longer be any hiding place for criminal elements in any part of the state.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who presided over the security council meeting on Tuesday, August 9, 2016, said the government had resolved to henceforth embark on massive and aggressive confiscation of properties used as hideouts by criminal elements in the state.
This latest decision is coming the same day traditional rulers in the state declared that the state would no longer be safe for criminals.
Also speaking, Mr Fatai Owoseni, the state police commissioner, said: “The take away for today after the security council meeting is for us to look at all the strategies that we have been employing in tackling the security challenges that we had in the state and to further strategise with the view to sustaining those measures that would put all the criminal elements in check and the security council of the state has come out to let our people know emphatically that the state is more poised at tackling all the criminal challenges and making sure that all the criminal elements that are going about in the state will not be allowed any free reign; they will not be given freedom of space to practise any of their criminal acts.
“There is no hiding place for criminal elements again in the state and as we get them, they would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
“In addition to that, the council resolved that any structure or any places of hiding that criminal elements are using in the state, the state will not hesitate, in the interest of the public, to take over those safe havens, structures or houses that these criminal elements are using as hiding places to perpetrate their criminal activities.” He continued: “The state still want to use this opportunity to further enlighten the public on the need to observe those laws that have been made in order to make life easy for the good people of Lagos.
“The two particular ones that we have looked at is the restriction of the commercial motorcycles to certain routes in the state and of course the activities of street traders. “What we want people to know is that the State is not sleeping on its enforcement duties but government is just trying to be responsible in the way these laws are enforced.
“The security council wants us to seize this opportunity to let the people know that these laws are made to be complied with and that we will not stop at making sure that they are enforced as they are supposed to be, and that elements that contravene these laws would also be made to face the law.”
The traffic law, as passed by the state House of Assembly in 2012, forbids the motorcyclists from plying highways and major roads within the state. The government also has restrictions on street trading. There had, however, been complaints that the road traffic law of the state is not fully implemented as commercial motorcycles have since returned to the roads which they were barred from plying. But Owoseni said that the government was only trying to enforce the law with human face, just as he appealed for cooperation from the people.
The government seems worried of the recent increase in the rate of criminal activities in the state. There have been cases of kidnappings and vandalism which the government is fighting in collaboration with the federal government. A victim of kidnapping and prominent traditional ruler in Lagos, Oba Goriola Oseni, recently regained freedom while the police paraded two of the suspected abductors.
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