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Published 21 February 2021
The All Progressives Congress member representing the Niger East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Sani Musa, tells SUNDAY ABORISADE why he moved a motion for the declaration of a state of emergency on security, update on the abducted Kagara schoolchildren and how to end banditry and insurgency in the country
What
is the update on the abducted Kagara schoolchildren?
The Inspector General of Police has deployed more than 150 operatives of the Mobile Police Special Squad to the area. My sources have told me they have identified the particular area where the bandits have taken the people to. At the moment, based on the aerial view analysis, it has been established that the bandits have forced the schoolchildren and their teachers to wear military camouflage. The President, (Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)), has given an order that the schoolchildren and their teachers should be returned home unharme
Vanguard News
CP Squad storms Ikorodu, arrests traffic robbers, cultists
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By Bose Adelaja
A Police Special Squad set up by Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has stormed Ikorodu area of the state arrested five suspected traffic robbers/cultists and cleared shanties in the area.
The operation took place at about 6pm on Thursday, at Agric area.
The suspects were Tanimowo Babatunde, male, 41, Gbolahan Oladimeji, male, 25, Kabiru Atanda, male, 30 years, Ibrahim Abubakri, male, 29 years, and Wasiu Rafiu, male, 19.
The sting operation was part of the promises of the CP, at the recently concluded Ikorodu Town Hall Meeting held on Wednesday 27th January, 2021, that Ikorodu will be sanitised of illegal and criminal acts.