The Lagos State House of Assembly has told the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency to prepare for the emergence of state police.
The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Security and Strategy, Stephen Ogundipe, gave the charge while on a working visit with other members of the committee to the LNSA office on Monday, according to a statement by the agency on Monday.
Ogundipe, while applauding the management of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Agency and the Corps, led by its General Manager, Ifalade Oyekan, “for the massive shift forward,” implored the agency “not to rest on its laurels as it continues to prepare the corps for the emergence of a state police, which is in the offing.”
He noted that the agency “has improved in terms of service delivery and continues to show the way to go about community policing to other similar agencies.”
In his response, LNSA GM, Oyekan, thanked Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu “for his unalloyed commitment to the safety of lives and properties in the state” which, according to him, is “the fuel spurring the agency’s unwavering drive for excellence.”
The safety corps boss said the agency was determined to live up to its mandate in the governor’s T.H.E.M.E.S. Plus Agenda, and thanked the Assembly, the visiting committee, and Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, “for their legislative and oversight support at all times.”
President Bola Tinubu at an emergency meeting with the 36 state governors in February agreed to set up a committee to come up with the modalities for setting up state police to tackle the nation’s worsening insecurity.
