Neighbourhood
By Mateen Badru
Lagos, May 9, 2018 (NAN) The Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency (LSNSA) has started holding sessions with education administrators on how to curb cultism and drug abuse among youths.
The Agency’s chairman, retired DIG Israel Ajao, disclosed this in a statement titled, “Setting the Records Straight” and signed by the agency’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Olawale Afolabi.
Ajao said that the LSNSA had started regular sessions on security tips with members of the Community Development Committees (CDCs) and Community Development Associations (CDAs).
He said that these were to enhance grassroots mobilization and acceptability of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps by various CDAs.
Ajao said that despite the many challenges facing the agency, it would continue to strive to live up to its mandate in the state.
“The Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Agency, LSNSA, will continue to live up to its mandate of securing Lagos neighborhoods which it had been doing since its establishment a year ago.
“The achievements of the agency within the short period of its existence have proved that the officers of the corps are more than resolute in their commitment to duty.’’
He said that the agency’s strategies for achieving this feat had included interfacing with education administrators and interactions with students.
The chairman said that the agency had used such opportunities to explain how education administrators and students could curb the growing menace of cultism and drug abuse among youths.
Ajao, however, warned the public against raising negative criticisms against the corps saying such were capable of discouraging them from being committed to their duties.
“It is important to set the records straight by emphasising that the agency was primarily established for the purpose of providing a second layer of community policing in the state,’’ he said.
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Ajao said that in the past one year, the agency had arrested cultists, armed robbers, human traffickers, hoodlums, sexual offenders, burglars, murder suspects, rescued kidnapped and missing persons.
“We in the LNSC know where the shoe hurts because we wear the shoes.
“Similarly, in our fight against crime in the last one year, some of our personnel had been attacked, injured, brutalized, maimed and killed,’’ he said.
The chairman said that the agency was happy with the constructive criticisms and suggestions from the residents of the state.
He, however, said that the agency would not be deterred by biased and negative criticisms in its determination to ensure a relatively crime-free Lagos. (NAN)
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Edited by Peter Dada
Lagos, May 9, 2018 (NAN) The Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Agency has started holding sessions with education administrators to curb cultism and drug abuse among youths.
This was disclosed by the Agency’s Chairman, DIG Israel Ajao (Rtd.) in a statement sent late on Tuesday titled “Setting the Records Straight” and signed by the agency’s PRO, Mr Olawale Afolabi.
According to the statement, regular sessions have also commenced with members of the Community Development Committees and Associations for grassroots mobilization and acceptability of the Corps.
The statement read that the agency has its challenges but had lived up to its mandates irrespective of reports that cast aspersions on the laudable achievements of the Corps members.
“The Lagos Neighborhood Safety Agency, LNSA has declared that it has lived up to its mandate of securing Lagos Neighborhoods since its establishment a year ago.
“The achievements of the Agency within the short period prove that Officers of the Corps are more than resolute in their commitment to duty.
“Our advocacy strategy includes interface with Education Administrators to ensure interaction with students to curb the growing menace of cultism and drug abuse among the youths.
“We have also commenced regular sessions with members of the Community Development Committees and Associations for grassroots mobilization and acceptability of the Corps.
“Ajao, however, warned that biased and negative criticism of the Corps is capable of discouraging the commitment of the Corps members.
“It is important to set the records straight that the primary purpose for which the Corps was established was to provide a second layer of community policing.
“Ajao maintained that even a diehard critic will score LNSC high if the background of volumes of the intelligence it has shared on crime control is anything to go by.
“In the last one year, we have arrested cultists, armed robbers, human traffickers, hoodlums, sexual offenders, burglars, murder suspects and rescued kidnapped and missing persons.
“We in the LNSC know where the shoe hurts because we wear the shoes. In the fight against crime in the last one year, we have been attacked, injured, brutalized, maimed and killed.
“We are happy with constructive suggestions but will not be deterred by biased and negative criticism in our determination to ensure a relatively crime-free Lagos.” the statement read. (NAN)
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