Following briefings from the police commissioners in charge of the Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo State Commands regarding the security situation on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, IGP Usman Alkali Baba CFR, the inspector general of police, has ordered an immediate restructuring of the security architecture on the expressway to provide adequate deployment of officers and assets to ensure the protection of lives and property along the expressway and prevent kidnappings and other undesirable activities.
This information was provided in a news release that CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), at Force Headquarters in Abuja, issued to the media.
According to FPRO, the IGP also emphasized that the Police Authority is not insensitive to the current security challenges on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway but rather has been working to strategically eliminate the threats along the expressway. For this reason, the CPs Ogun and Oyo assessed the on-the-spot black spots along the route in response to the IGP’s directives for the enhanced safeguard of the expressway.
In order to combat the current trend of crimes and criminality on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, the Inspector-General of Police pledges adequate operational support in the form of technology-based and tactical operational assets for the Commissioners of Police in charge of Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo, as well as Heads of tactical operational units in the area.
In a similar vein, the Inspector-General of Police has urged well-intentioned Nigerians, in particular road users, hunters, community leaders, and other stakeholders who travel the route, to constantly report known criminals who terrorize innocent Nigerians along the route and in neighboring communities to the Police and other security agencies for immediate arrest and prosecution.
Remember how Abimbola Oyeyemi, the police spokesperson for Ogun State, told drivers that the command will do everything possible to secure their safety on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway?
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr. Oyeyemi stated that because the highway was one of the busiest and most crucial highways in the nation, the police would not sit back and allow criminals to gain control of it.