Nigerian police on red alert over terrorists threat to attack Lagos

The police command in Lagos State has placed its operatives on red alert over alleged plans to attack the state.

This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.

According to him, the command is not unmindful of intelligence reports sugesting that Lagos State could be on the radar of some persons planning attacks across the country.

“To this end, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Abiodun Alabi, has placed the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of the Command on high alert.

“Also placed on alert are all Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Tactical Commanders, in a bid to ensure that any planned attack is promptly and decisively nipped in the bud.

“The command is also working closely with other sister security agencies to ensure that no person or group of persons succeeds in destabilising the peace and serenity enjoyed by the good people of Lagos State,” the CP said in the statement.

The image maker said that the Lagos police boss enjoined people in the state not to fear, assuring them that all human, material and operational resources had been fully and optimally deployed across the state.

Hundeyin said that in all the border towns, persons coming in and going out were under serious surveillance to ensure that there was absolutely no breach of the peace in the state.

“Consequent upon the carefully laid down security plans and strategies, all residents of Lagos State are urged to go about their lawful duties without panic or fear.

“Lagos residents are equally enjoined to remain very vigilant and report suspicious movements and persons to security agencies,” he said in the statement.

Meanwhile, Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Sunday raised the alarm on the worrisome spate of insecurity in the country, saying Nigeria was already sleepwalking into a collapse, even as he sadly noted that intelligence reports indicated that terrorists were already hibernating in forests both in Osun and Ogun states.

Iba Adams raised the alarm in a statement he signed personally, and made available to newsmen by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Kehinde Aderemi, but reiterated quickly his earlier warning that Yoruba are not cowards, calling on everybody in the region to be vigilant and watchful in checking this insecurity scourge, which he said was already stiff-necking Nigeria and could not let the nation breathe.

This was just as he called on governors in South-West states to ensure that they recruit local security service structures in their various local government areas, while also calling on anybody with useful information that had any security implication to tell the traditional rulers, leaders in their respective localities or even himself “for us to intervene and report same to the right quarters.”

According to the Yoruba generalissimo, the South- West governors should ensure the recruitment of at least 150 people in each local government area, saying that this local security architecture would be given stipends as salaries with their jobs mapped out to assist and complement the efforts of Amotekun that had been existing in five out of the six states in the region.

Besides, Iba Adams said he was ready to offer assistance in case the governors needed it “or any kind of assistance or that of South-West Security Stakeholders’ Group (SSSG) in strengthening our region’s security.

For instance, the information reaching me today is that the terrorists are in-between Osu forest and Ile Ife, Osun State, and fully armed with various ammunitions.

And they are presently in the forest between Abeokuta and Ibadan planning to attack us in the South-West.

This is one information that we need to act on in order to avoid possible calamity.

“Yoruba aren’t cowards. So, let everybody in the South-West be vigilant and be watchful in checking this insecurity scourge that is already stiff-necking Nigeria and could not let the nation breathe.

“We are aware of their plans to strike in Lagos, Ibadan, Oyo State, and Abeokuta in Ogun State.

However, I implore all the governors in the South-West to recruit local security service structure in their various local government areas. “But, we will never allow them to destroy our land.

Therefore, we urge the six governors in the South-West states to hold an urgent emergency security meeting with stakeholders across the region so as to address the impending implosion.”

Source: Independent Nigeria