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Published 9 June 2021
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Wednesday, appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to release two police helicopters to the Command “to assist in fortifying the aerial patrol and surveillance of the Command with a view to tactically tackling some of the crimes being experienced in the state and by extension, in the South-West”.
Odumosu made the appeal in an address to welcome the IGP to the Command Headquarters in Ikeja, the state capital on Wednesday.
Baba is on a three-day work visit to Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial centre with over 20 million people.
Views: Visits 6 By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja The Police Command in Abuja on Tuesday declared that none of its stations or Area Commands in the FCT was attacked. This is sequel to a video circulating alleging that one of the police stations in the FCT had been attacked and set ablaze. ASP Yusuf Mariam in a statement debunked the video noting there was no record of such incident in the FCT command.l The statement reads, “The Police Command of the Federal Capital Territory wishes to debunk a viral video in the social media suggesting that a Police Division in Abuja was attacked and set ablaze by hoodlums.