Lagos violence: Children of slain policemen to get scholarship as officers get life insurance

The Lagos State Government has directed the State Scholarship Board to award scholarship to the children of slain officers up to the University level. Police officers serving in Lagos would also get life insurance from the State Government. Police parade 17 suspects for murder in Anambra Violence: Lagos schools to reopen Monday This followed Governor […]

The Lagos State Government has directed the State Scholarship Board to award scholarship to the children of slain officers up to the University level.

Police officers serving in Lagos would also get life insurance from the State Government.

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This followed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s visit to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, on Wednesday at the Command headquarters in Ikeja where he went to boost the morale of officers who were demoralised by events of the past week when officers and their stations were targeted by hoodlums.

The State Police Command had suffered huge loss in personnel, armoury and property in the recent violence that trailed the EndSARS protest in Lagos state.

Sanwo-Olu has, however, assured that police officers lynched in the violence will not die in vain.

He assured that the State Government would compensate family members of officers killed in the violence as well as take care of their burial arrangement of the slain officers, adding that the State would pick up the hospital bills of those injured in the mayhem.

He made the offer to take the bill of replacing the logistics lost while he noted that through the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), the police operation vehicles burnt in the violence would be replaced.

The Governor also approved the request to upgrade Police Cottage Hospital in Ikeja, directing the Commissioner for Health to inspect the facility for the required upgrade.

In addition to donating two 150KVA generating set to the Police, Sanwo-Olu said the Command Headquarters would be connected to the State’s Independent Power Project (IPP) for constant power supply.

“We will look for the funds to build befitting stations that will set the standard of what police stations should be,” Sanwo-Olu said, adding that the statutory duties of the Police cannot be wished away because of the actions of a few bad eggs.

While he made known that the impact of the police officers’ absence on the roads was generally felt by residents; the governor encouraged the State to put the event of the past week behind and move on to restore peace across the communities.

Odumosu had told the governor during the visit that six police officers were lynched by hoodlums during the unrest, 28 Police Stations and posts were razed, 18 police stations and posts were vandalized, 36 personnel critically injured, 58 operational vehicles were torched with 13 others vandalized.

In spite of the loss, the CP assured that the Police remained undeterred in performing their constitutional duties.