Assist police stations in your community, Falana urges corporate bodies

The Lagos State based human right activist, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, has urged corporate bodies to check crimes like kidnapping and armed robbery in the state, by assisting police stations in their communities.

Falana made this call during a visit to the Lagos State Commissioner of Polce, Mr Imohimi Edgal at the weekend.

According to the lawyer, for the state and country to be effectively policed, corporate bodies should do everything possible to assist them.

Falana, who described Imohimi as an intelligent and humble man, said that the CP in the saddle in Lagos State, the era of criminals holding Lagos by the jugular would be curtailed.

He explained that corporate bodies like banking and oil sectors were needed for better security of a state.

His words: “Corporates bodies like Banking and Oil sectors should wake up from their slumber to assist the police,  especially those police stations in their territories. They should assist in fortifying their area, which would then check incidences of kidnapping and robbery. Police, cannot do the work alone. I also urge privileged Nigerians to assist the police in their areas as such would help the current community policing programme of the Inspector- General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris.”

In another development, the Inspector- General of police, Idris has approved the establishment of a new police mobile force squadron in Lagos State.

The new Squadron will have its based in Ikorodu, a former suburb of Lagos, but now a fast developing town with all its niceties and concomitant crime.

A source disclosed that the new squadron got the IGP nod, not only because of the activities of militants, cultists , armed robbers and other hoodlums, but for the fact that the Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode is first among equals when it comes to provisions of necessary tools to the police and other relevant security agencies.

The source equally revealed that the performance of Imohimi in these few days was another  reason Idris, who believed that to “whom much is given, much is expected,” approved the squadron. 

"You know that as it is today, one can aptly describe Ambode and Imohimi as the crime fighting duo," said the source.