The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday vowed to flush out vandals and militants out of the state.
Ambode said this when the Acting Inspector General of Police, Idris Kpotun Ibrahim paid him a courtesy call at the Lagos House, Ikeja.
Recall that a combined team of security men have commenced an onslaught against vandals and suspected militants in some communities within the boundary of Lagos and Ogun in a bid to flush out the miscreants from the area.
Ambode said, “I want to also use this medium to commend the Nigeria Police and other security agencies on our fight against the militants and vandals that we have embarked on in this Operation Awatse in the last one week.
“I want to commend all the security agencies for a job well done, I also want to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for approving that operation by what we have seen, I also commend the Chief of Defence Staff for also approving the joint effort.
“We are already seeing the results. I have just been briefed this morning about the impact of what has been done.
“Again, we need to sustain and ensure that these people do not go back to the creeks. On our part as a government, whatever it is that it takes to take the militants and vandals off Lagos we are going to do it, if it means shutting down some locations where they seem to be hibernating in terms of any commercial trade, we would do it and make sure that we guarantee the lives of our people and whatever it takes in terms of financial support for the security agencies to sustain the success we’ve had in the last few days, we would do it.”
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