The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, yesterday gave two weeks’ ultimatum to owners of unlicensed firearms in the state to surrender their guns to the police.
Aderanti’s directive followed eruption of violence at Isale-Eko area of the state on Saturday between members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
At least six people were killed in the three-day confrontation while many others were injured. The commissioner said that he would not allow thuggery to pervade the state and vowed to speak with political leaders concerning their conducts and those of their supporters in the preparation for the 2015 general elections.
He said: The Isale-Eko situation, where law and order has been restored, is what informed my decision in clamming down on proliferation of small arms in the city. We should not encourage thuggery.
There should be no violence in the state. Politics should not be a matter of life and death.”
Aderanti said that he had observed within his first two weeks in office that there was proliferation of unlicensed small arms in the state. According to him, many people may want to use such guns to commit crime and intimidate innocent people.
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